China’s Infiltration of the U.S.: CCP Surrogacy and Birth Tourism

By Foudeelau, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Two practices are allowing Chinese nationals to obtain U.S. citizenship for their children at scale: commercial surrogacy, conducted primarily in California, and birth tourism, in which pregnant women travel to the U.S. on tourist visas to deliver on American soil. Both exploit the 14th Amendment guarantee of citizenship to anyone born in the United States. Surrogacy is illegal in China, driving wealthy clients abroad, and California’s...