Show Notes
The Invisible Coup will rock the political world, but some of the problems it exposes are actually constitutional questions. The issue of “birth tourism” brings it up constantly.
On the most recent episode of The DrillDown, the book’s author shared some stories from the book that demonstrate the extent of the birth tourism problem. Peter Schweizer’s book devotes a chapter to what he calls “the Manchurian Generation.” According to the book, Chinese officials estimate that a staggering 50,000 of their own citizens per year are born in the United States and its territories, thus becoming birthright US citizens. Some scholars believe the figure is even higher.
As Schweizer explains, these are babies born in the US, then returned to China, where they grow up indoctrinated into the Chinese system. However, they become eligible to vote in US elections. The Chinese have been doing this for many years, and Schweizer believes we could start seeing effects from this beginning in 2030.
Schweizer talked about the legal questions around birthright citizenship.
“I think the birthright citizenship thing is key, and the US Supreme Court is going to hear a case on it, as we’ll talk about in a future episode,” he says. ”China has created an industrial scale model to exploit birthright citizenship. So, it’s not what people think it is. It’s not somebody who happens to be here by chance that gives birth and, well, I guess we’ll make him a citizen. No. It’s a massive threat.”
The book recommends banning birth tourism and surrogacy, the two ways China is doing this, as a means of citizenship. President Donald Trump issued an executive order, which is being challenged in the courts. Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) has introduced legislation to do so as well.
From the book:
“Can there be any doubt that foreign powers are manipulating birthright citizenship? Did the authors of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, upon which the claims of birthright citizenship rest, intend to allow foreign governments to inject our nation with “US citizens” who never really lived here and grew up under a foreign totalitarian ideology? Did the authors of the Fourteenth Amendment intend to allow foreign nationals to mail their sperm and eggs to the United States, have a child born in an American womb, only to have the child sent back to their country as a US citizen? The very notion is ridiculous. As we have seen, tens, if not hundreds of thousands of these cases have occurred every year for more than a decade. The organized effort of the Chinese elite class is, by its very nature, a subversive act designed to undermine our country.
In addition, Schweizer believes Mexico’s extensive network of consulates needs to be reviewed.
“We need to be shutting down consulates and kicking Mexican diplomats out of this country,” he says. “They should not be engaged in partisan politics, trying to elect Democrats, and they should not be organizing violent anti-ICE protests in our country. It is a massive violation of their diplomatic status and a massive violation of our sovereignty.”
The Mexican consulate system – 53 different consulates around the US – has grown as Mexican migration to the US grew. But Schweizer sees the relationship as symbiotic.
“When you look at what’s happening now and the role that the Mexican consulate is playing in the unrest that’s happening in Minneapolis right now, I think it begs for further scrutiny,” he concludes.
