As reported by Fox News, experts like Peter Schweitzer are warning that the Chinese Communist Party is exploiting America’s lax immigration and citizenship laws through a growing practice known as “birth tourism,” with potentially serious long-term consequences for U.S. sovereignty and national security.
Birth tourism involves foreign nationals—most commonly from China—traveling to the United States late in pregnancy to give birth on American soil. Under current interpretations of the 14th Amendment, children born in the U.S. automatically receive citizenship, regardless of the parents’ legal status or intentions. Critics argue this loophole is increasingly being used not merely for economic opportunity, but as a calculated geopolitical strategy.
Author and China analyst Gordon Chang told Fox News that Beijing understands the long-term implications of this practice and has every incentive to encourage it. According to Chang, these children—American citizens by birth—can later sponsor family members, gain access to U.S. institutions, and potentially be influenced or leveraged by the Chinese Communist Party as adults.
“This is not accidental,” Chang warned. “The Chinese regime thinks in decades, not election cycles.”
The scale of the issue is difficult to measure precisely, but federal prosecutors have previously cracked down on organized birth tourism operations, particularly in California. These businesses openly marketed U.S. citizenship as a product, charging tens of thousands of dollars to arrange travel, housing, and hospital access for expectant mothers from China.
Beyond the legal and security concerns, critics argue the practice highlights a deeper moral and constitutional crisis. Citizenship, once understood as a sacred bond of loyalty and shared national identity, has been reduced to a transactional commodity. From a biblical worldview, nations are not merely economic zones but ordained communities with borders, laws, and responsibilities. Scripture repeatedly affirms the legitimacy of boundaries and ordered societies, warning against lawlessness and deception.
The Chinese Communist Party, an officially atheist regime hostile to Christianity and religious freedom, has demonstrated a consistent pattern of exploiting Western openness while offering none in return. From intellectual property theft to influence operations on college campuses, Beijing has shown it will use any available tool to advance its interests.
Birth tourism represents yet another asymmetrical tactic—one that takes advantage of American generosity and legal ambiguity while undermining the consent of the governed.
Chang and other analysts argue that Washington’s failure to address the issue reflects a broader unwillingness to confront uncomfortable truths about immigration policy. While political leaders debate abstract slogans, foreign adversaries are acting strategically, embedding themselves within American systems that were never designed to be exploited this way.
Ending birth tourism would not require cruelty or hostility toward children, who bear no guilt for the actions of adults. Rather, it would require lawmakers to restore the original intent of citizenship, close loopholes that invite abuse, and reaffirm the principle that national allegiance cannot be purchased through deception.
At stake is more than immigration policy. It is the question of whether the United States will continue to defend its sovereignty, its constitutional order, and the moral foundations that once guided its laws—or whether it will allow hostile powers to quietly shape its future from within.
As Scripture reminds us, “If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?” The warning signs are clear. Whether America responds remains to be seen.
