For GAI Vice President Eric Eggers, the best news of the recent Supreme Court decision on birthright citizenship is that Americans are now more aware of the “birth tourism” problem that GAI has researched and reported on. “At the very least, the good news is people have recognized this is an issue that’s being exploited,” Eggers told TBN host Allen Jackson.
The Chinese government has been promoting this practice in China for many years, Eggers noted. “China published an article in the People’s Daily in 2011 in which they touted the benefits of the 14th Amendment and how people could take advantage of this. These birth tourism companies, of which we’ve identified more than 1,000, practice this and promote this in China,” Eggers said. “They advertise it’s essentially access to cradle-to-grave welfare services, from free education to social security and other benefits for senior citizens.”
Eggers said he believes the Trump administration has ways to solve the birth tourism issue through legislation and executive action, as suggested by Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s concurring opinion in the case, known as Barbara v. Trump.
Jackson asks about the ongoing Justice Department investigation into California governor Gavin Newsom and his wife. “Last week, it was confirmed that someone in Newsom’s inner circle was wearing an FBI wire, and they are investigating his former chief of staff. Do you have any idea how deep that corruption goes?”
Eggers has covered issues around California corruption on the GAI podcast he co-hosts with Susan Crabtree, an investigative reporter for RealClearPolitics and an expert on the subject.
“California has this really bizarre practice known as ‘behested payments,’ where the governor can basically direct people to donate to causes that he has identified, and it’s perfectly legal,” Eggers explained. His wife also happens to be paid by nonprofits. So, you’ve got this kind of blur of money going to nonprofits, some of which was suggested by him, and then some of that money ends up going to other nonprofits and then ends up in her bank account. So, it’s messy, it’s tricky.”
“I’ve been told these investigations are actually not being triggered from Washington, DC,” he shared with Jackson. “The Newsoms are so shady that this was actually instigated by the Department of Justice offices in Sacramento.”
Eggers and Jackson close the segment discussing the recent success of unapologetically socialist candidates like Zoran Mamdani and other candidates. Eggers says, “the farther we get from remembering the stories of our Founding Fathers, remembering the ideas we fought for to create this country, the more willing people become to fall for the attractive lies that socialism offers,” he told Jackson.
“You see this in the success of some of these candidates in New York, of the candidate in Colorado, and a Michigan Senate candidate who seems to be doing well selling this too,” he noted.
GAI has done research on the influence of “dark money” contributions, where the donor is not disclosed. And he believes that is partly responsible for the surge of success by candidates on the extreme left of the Democratic Party. Another recent Supreme Court case, NRSC v. FEC, may change that equation, making it easier for political parties to coordinate spending with candidates. Dark money groups – typically known as super PACs and making “independent expenditures” on behalf of candidates – can’t do that.
“These socialists aren’t coming from within the Democrat Party. They’re coming from outside groups funded by outside dark money, like George Soros.” He believes that with political parties having some restored control over candidate selection, more moderate candidates will begin to emerge. As far as socialists running cities, “as more people see it fail — when Mamdani is asking residents in New York City to put their air conditioning thermostat at 78 degrees — I don’t think that’s a future most people will choose,” Eggers said.
