Overview
- On Fox News, author Peter Schweizer claimed Chinese elites have pursued large-scale birth tourism for about 13 years, describing an “industrial model.”
- He asserted that roughly 100,000 people of Chinese parentage were born in the U.S. annually over that period and were then raised in China before some return to the U.S. as adults.
- Schweizer cited a Wall Street Journal report of one Chinese elite with more than 100 U.S.-born children via surrogacy and said 107 Chinese-owned surrogacy firms were identified in Southern California.
- Rep. Brian Babin introduced a bill to end what he calls loopholes, seeking to codify Trump’s executive order limiting citizenship for most children born to undocumented or temporary-status parents.
- Birthright citizenship is grounded in the 14th Amendment, and critics say curtailing it would break with about 150 years of precedent, with a Supreme Court decision expected by summer 2026.