Chinese Birth Tourism and Its Impact on U.S. Elections
Over a million Chinese nationals, raised in communist China, are set to begin participating in U.S. elections. This is revealed in a new book by Peter Schweitzer, a best-selling investigative journalist, titled The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon.
In the book, Schweitzer exposes how Chinese elites take advantage of America’s birthright citizenship policies through a practice called birth tourism. Essentially, Chinese mothers travel to the U.S. to give birth, thereby ensuring their children receive automatic American citizenship.
A significant aspect of birth tourism is the chain migration it facilitates. Schweitzer notes, “When these children turn 21, they can also apply for their parents’ immigration status.” He points to Saipan, a U.S. territory, where over 70% of newborns come from Chinese tourist parents utilizing the area’s visa-free policies to obtain American citizenship for their children.
The U.S. government does not monitor birth tourism directly, meaning the actual reach of this practice remains unknown, according to Schweitzer.
Chinese officials estimate that about 50,000 residents engage in this practice annually. Some experts believe the number could be as high as 100,000, indicating birth tourism has the potential to create millions of elite Chinese Americans.
Research suggests that in 2018 alone, around 150,000 individuals traveled from China to the U.S. specifically for maternity tourism, according to data analysis from Media Research.
Schweitzer argues that in the past 15 years, the number of Chinese-born individuals in the U.S. who have now grown up as citizens could range between 750,000 and 1.5 million.
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This situation presents a dilemma for the U.S., as many of these newly minted citizens lack any allegiance to the country. They are often the offspring of families that benefitted from China’s communist regime and have been educated under the influence of the Chinese Communist Party’s ideology, resulting in a potentially distorted understanding of American values.
These individuals can vote and are eligible to bring their parents to the U.S. as permanent residents once they reach 21. The implications of this could become clearer around 2030 when the first batch of these children turns 18.
The rise of birth tourism gained traction during the Obama administration, which Schweitzer claims inadvertently encouraged this trend. The scope of this practice has expanded significantly since then.
In China, birth tourism is highly structured, often backed by the Chinese Communist Party, acting as an underhanded method to send millions of “nationals” into the U.S. Many participants are members of China’s elite, including government officials.
A different method also utilized by Chinese individuals involves surrogacy in the U.S. to have children. Schweitzer mentions one specific official, Guojun Xuan, who has invested heavily in California real estate and has arranged for multiple surrogates across the U.S. to bear his children.
In a notable incident, authorities found 15 children, ages 2 months to 13 years, living in a property linked to Xuan, raising questions about the nature of his surrogacy network.
Xuan represents just a portion of a larger trend, where U.S. citizens have Chinese parents through both surrogacy and birth tourism. In California alone, there are 107 companies related to surrogacy that are owned by Chinese nationals.
Schweitzer’s book The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon, is set for release on January 20th.
