CCP Exploiting Birth Tourism in America on an ‘Industrial Scale,’ Says Peter Schweizer
🔴 WATCH THE FULL EPISODE: https://ept.ms/4qYlb5XShow more As many as 1 million U.S. citizens born via Chinese birth tourism could soon become eligible to vote in the coming years, says investigative journalist Peter Schweizer.
“The CCP is using birth tourism on an industrial scale,” Schweizer says.
Wealthy Chinese women are flying to the U.S. on tourist visas shortly before their due dates, giving birth to “American” children, and returning to China within weeks with their newborns.
Schweizer’s latest book is titled, “The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon.” Show less
The birthright citizenship issue to me is really central because it is a massive vulnerability and it's something that can be fixed.
We'll see what the Supreme Court is going to settle on this.
But the important thing, I think, for people to understand is the Chinese government, the CCP, is using birth tourism on an industrial scale.
They are exploiting it on an industrial scale.
So what do I mean?
Well, any numbers that we have related to how many Chinese nationals are flying to the United States, giving birth here, and then flying home with the baby, raising them in communist China.
And then when they turn 18, they're going to be citizens.
They can vote and do everything.
Our federal government has no idea.
We don't track this information because you're given a birth certificate when your child is born here, whether you're an American citizen, whether you're a Chinese birth tourism, you get a birth certificate.
It does not list the nationality of the parents.
Nobody tracks this.
So our federal government says we have no idea.
The number of half a million to a million, maybe more, comes actually from China.
The Chinese government has looked at this and estimates the Chinese government and some research firms say that over the past roughly 13 years, you have anywhere from 50,000 to 100,000 Chinese nationals a year doing this for 13 years, which is stunning.
And there's a lot of anecdotal evidence to support this in addition to the data from China.
Reports of these flights from Los Angeles, LAX to Shanghai, where the entire business section is largely populated by newborn babies.
So it's a huge problem.
And I think we have to dispel the idea that birth tourism or birthright citizenship, I should say, is just something, somebody comes across the border, they make a life here, they're here for 20 years, they have a couple of kids.
That's not what we're talking about here.
We're talking about very systematic, and we're talking about something China did in Hong Kong for a while.
It reached the point around 2010 that half of all newborns in Hong Kong were Chinese nationals getting birthright citizenship in Hong Kong.
The government had to stop it.
The government in Hong Kong at that point had to stop it because they said this is subversion.
We can't allow this to go on.
Something similar is playing out in the United States.
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And you're saying that these other research firms are kind of confirming the Chinese numbers because both you and I know that we can't put a lot of stock in the Chinese numbers.
Yes, exactly.
And what's interesting about that, you're right.
You think, okay, the Chinese government's saying this.
If anything, I would believe the Chinese government would want to understate, would want to understate the numbers.
So the fact that the Chinese government's saying 50,000 a year, the fact that these research firms are saying 100,000 a year, one research firm said that in just a single year, I think it was 2018, they said there were 150,000.
Now, I don't know if those are completely accurate, but those are the only numbers we have.
And again, all of these sources would have reasons to sort of underestimate these numbers.
And it would be fitting with China's methodology, which is very smart, very sophisticated, and it exploiting the weaknesses of countries that it regards as enemies.
And that's certainly the United States would fit in that category.
And what it really comes down to is local governments who are issuing birth certificates, locations of birth.
Nobody's collecting that data and nobody is including the nationality of the parents.
And yeah, I mean, which would seem like it would be an obvious thing to do.