The Supreme Court is gearing up to deliberate on the constitutionality of birthright citizenship, a contentious issue that has been exploited by foreign entities to the detriment of the United States.
This legal loophole in our immigration law warrants a thorough examination, particularly in light of its misuse by adversarial actors.
According to RedState, a startling report by The Wall Street Journal has shed light on a Chinese billionaire, Xu Bo, who has exploited this loophole to father over 100 children, all of whom are U.S. citizens. Xu Bo, a prominent figure in the videogame industry, came under scrutiny during a routine custody hearing in California.
Court clerks working under Judge Amy Pellman noticed an unusual pattern while reviewing surrogacy petitions. The same name, Xu Bo, kept appearing. The Chinese billionaire was seeking parental rights for at least four unborn children, and further investigation revealed that he had already fathered or was in the process of fathering at least eight moreall through surrogates.
During a confidential hearing in the summer of 2023, Xu Bo, who resides in China, appeared via video link and communicated through an interpreter. He expressed his desire to father around 20 U.S.-born children through surrogacy, favoring boys to inherit his business. He admitted that several of his children were being cared for by nannies in Irvine, California, awaiting paperwork to travel to China. He had not met them due to his busy work schedule.
Xu Bo is not the only one exploiting this loophole. Wang Huiwu, another affluent Chinese executive, has fathered 10 girls through U.S. egg donors, with the intention of marrying them off to influential men, as per sources close to his education company.
There are dozens of companies that facilitate multiple surrogate births for Chinese "parents" in the U.S., seemingly for the sole purpose of acquiring citizenship. This burgeoning surrogacy industry appears to be a response to the crackdown on "birth hotels" in California, where Chinese women would travel to give birth to U.S. citizens. Surrogacy effectively circumvents State Department policies aimed at curbing birth tourism by restricting travel to the U.S. by pregnant women.
While the Chinese are not the only ones engaging in "birth tourism," they have industrialized the practice. Prior to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, several thousand Russian babies were born in Miami, each one a U.S. citizen who could potentially reside in the U.S. in the future.
This practice, while distinct from birthright citizenship as the surrogate mother is presumably American, is a variant of the same. The surrogate mother does not appear on the child's final birth certificate, and as she relinquishes parental rights at birth, the "father" has ensured his "offspring" acquire U.S. citizenship.
This practice poses a significant threat to national security. The primary concern is the loss of track of these U.S.-born children when they return to China. The passport issued in their name could be used by anyone. Although the Chinese babies born in California "birth hotels" may never return to the U.S., there is no guarantee that someone using that passport will not establish themselves here.
In the case of a regime loyalist like Xu Bo, his 100-plus offspring could potentially purchase Congressional seats and wield influence in state political parties due to their access to virtually unlimited funds. As U.S. citizens, even if domiciled outside the U.S., they can legally contribute to candidates under their own names or via PACs and "dark money" groups.
Opposition to President Trump's executive order ending the practice of granting citizenship to nearly anyone born in the U.S. is largely based on personal animosity towards Trump and a misconstrued interpretation of the 14th Amendment rather than facts.
The stakes are higher than a romanticized notion of the children of immigrants becoming citizens. Birthright citizenship, as exploited by Chinese billionaires, allows hostile nations to create thousands, or tens of thousands, of valid U.S. passports for use by their intelligence services. It permits adversarial powers to participate in our elections using nearly unlimited funds legally.
Birthright citizenship, in its current form, paves the way for genuine "Manchurian candidates" from places other than Somalia to win elective office and gain access to highly classified information by virtue of their citizenship and position.
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