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A Senate Judiciary subcommittee has revealed a startling consequence of the exploitation of the United States’ automatic birthright citizenship policy that has reportedly allowed possibly one million Chinese nationals to give birth in America to babies who have returned to be raised entirely in China – yet will be able to vote in U.S. elections.
The Senate Subcommittee on the Constitution heard testimony last week on the issue of President Donald Trump’s January 20, 2025 executive order titled “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship.”
In his opening remarks, Subcommittee Chairman Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) presented the dilemma for Americans.
“For years, the American people have been told that the Constitution requires the United States to grant citizenship to almost anyone born here, without any regard for such key questions like whether or not the parents were in the country legally in the first place,” he explained. “That claim has shaped our immigration system and our politics for decades; it’s also reshaped how many people think about what it means to be an American.”
In his introduction of witness Peter Schweizer, president of the Florida-based Government Accountability Institute (GAI), Schmitt observed that Schweizer’s new bestseller The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon exposes “a rising Manchurian generation of Chinese nationals with CCP [Chinese Communist Party] ties who have exploited the United States’ automatic citizenship rules.”
“China has sent individuals to give birth in America, securing US citizenship for up to 1.5 million Chinese nationals who will spend their entire lives in China, but can vote in our elections, attend our schools and receive our government benefits,” the senator said. “President Trump’s executive order has forced the country to confront this issue directly. It raises a basic question, does the Constitution require the United States to grant citizenship automatically to the children of illegal aliens or temporary visitors?”
The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments on April 1 in Trump v. Barbara, the challenge to the president’s executive order ending birthright citizenship.
Schweizer introduced his testimony regarding the exploitation of America’s current birthright citizenship policy by Chinese nationals – some with ties to the CCP – with an unsettling image:
As we welcomed the first American newborn of 2025 in the early morning of January 1, that child was born not to American parents, but to Chinese citizens. The mother had deliberately traveled to U.S. soil—in this case, the territory of Saipan in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI)—to ensure the child received automatic U.S. citizenship under current interpretations of the Fourteenth Amendment. This is the practice known as birth tourism.
“The scale of this exploitation is staggering, yet the U.S. federal government does not systematically track it,” said Schweizer, whose organization’s mission is to “investigate and expose cronyism, misuse of taxpayer money, and malfeasance — in government and beyond — by following the money and holding the powerful accountable.”
“Chinese officials have estimated 50,000 of their citizens per year engage in birth tourism,” he continued. “Scholars such as Australian professor Salvatore Babones suggest the number is closer to 100,000 annually, potentially resulting in millions of new elite, American ‘citizens’ reared and acculturated in Communist China.’”
“Chinese data firms reported 150,000 arrivals for this purpose in 2018 alone,” the author noted.
Added to this practice, Schweizer revealed, is the stealth use of surrogacy by senior CCP officials and elites whose children are born in the U.S. to American surrogate mothers and granted automatic citizenship.
“The children are then taken to China and raised there,” he explained, pointing out that, throughout the past 15 years, “at least 750,000—and possibly up to 1.5 million—Chinese nationals now hold U.S. citizenship by birth on American soil.”
Yet, growing up in China, they are often educated in CCP-overseen schools “with distorted views of U.S. history, values, and culture,” he added. “They have no lived connection or demonstrated allegiance to our country, yet they possess full rights as U.S. citizens: the ability to vote in elections, relocate here at will, and—upon turning 21— sponsor their parents as permanent residents.”
As expected, just a day after Trump issued his executive order ending birthright citizenship, 24 states led by Democrats and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit challenging the order.
In his statement announcing Connecticut’s participation in the lawsuit, state Attorney General William Tong claimed Trump’s executive order is “a war on American families waged by a President with zero respect for our Constitution. We have sued, and I have every confidence we will win.”
“The 14th Amendment says what it means, and it means what it says—if you are born on American soil, you are an American. Period. Full stop,” Tong said. “There is no legitimate legal debate on this question. But the fact that Trump is dead wrong will not prevent him from inflicting serious harm right now on American families like my own.”
“My life would not be possible without birthright citizenship,” the attorney general added.
Tong defended the lawsuit with the claim that ending birthright citizenship “will cause chaos across Connecticut and the United States, with babies born here lacking legal status anywhere, imperiling their future careers, education, healthcare, and more in the only country they will have known.”
As Schweizer’s research has revealed, however, in the case of Chinese elites’ use of birth tourism and surrogacy, many of these babies born in the U.S. are sent back to China, to be raised and educated there, with the opportunity to vote in U.S. elections.
Schmitt explained that, over several decades, “lawyers, activists and policymakers in Washington” have put forward the notion that citizenship has nothing to do with being connected to the American people.
“Citizenship is not just paperwork issued by the government,” the chairman said, however. “It’s not a bureaucratic label. Citizenship is the essential bond between a nation and its people, in a republic – in a republic like ours. That bond carries enormous weight, because in the United States, sovereignty doesn’t belong to a king or ruling class. It belongs to the American people themselves.”
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