The Supreme Court is taking up birthright citizenship — and Peter Schweizer says America needs to pay attention to why it matters.
Schweizer’s research exposes a booming Chinese birth tourism industry, with operations charging $80,000 to $100,000 per client to secure automatic U.S. citizenship for their children. Chinese research firms estimate 100,000 Chinese nationals give birth on American soil every year.
Over 13 years, that’s approximately one million Chinese-born citizens with no permanent ties to the country — and every one of them gets a vote at 18. But the U.S. federal government doesn’t track this number at all.
“The problem is our federal government doesn’t even keep track of this number,” Schweizer told Chanel Rion on Fine Point. “When you give birth in the United States, you’re given a birth certificate. It does not list the nationality of the parents. This also applies to U.S. territories, like Saipan, for example. And so our federal government has no idea how many Chinese foreign nationals or other foreign nationals are doing this.”
Schweizer continued: “The mothers give birth here. And when the child is old enough to travel, a couple of weeks after birth, they fly back to China, where they are being raised under the CCP system. The problem is, if you believe that birthright citizenship is absolute, those individuals are going to be U.S. citizens when they turn 18. Even though they’ve never lived here, even though they have no connection to American society, that means they’re going to be able to vote.”
Reminder: the 2016 presidential election was decided by just 72,000 votes.
The scheme runs deeper than birth tourism. Schweizer has identified one Chinese billionaire who has fathered more than 100 U.S. citizen children through surrogacy, paying American women $50,000 to $60,000 per birth. Southern California alone hosts 107 Chinese-owned surrogacy businesses.
The client lists read like a CCP directory: military officers, intelligence operatives, and senior Chinese Communist Party officials.
At 18, these children can vote, donate to political campaigns, and apply for sensitive government jobs. Schweizer argues that’s not an accident. It’s a vulnerability — and it’s been hiding in plain sight.
Watch the clip above.
