CCP Exploiting Birth Tourism in America on an ‘Industrial’ Scale | Peter Schweizer
American Thought Leaders
The Epoch Times
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🗓️ 4 February 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
A significant industry has emerged of expectant mothers flying from China to states such as California or U.S. territories such as Saipan to give birth to American citizens, says investigative reporter Peter Schweizer.
As soon as the newborn is old enough to fly, mother and child travel back to China with their babies. Chinese state-run media began promoting such services years ago, Schweizer says.
“They are exploiting this on a massive scale,” Schweizer said. “It’s industrial, and we are completely oblivious to it.”
He estimates there are tens of thousands of such cases per year. When the child turns 21, their parents can then potentially claim green cards through them.
There are also growing anecdotes of surrogacy as another preferred route.
“Politically connected elites in China ... are hiring women in the United States to carry their children. They call them carriers. And these women are American citizens,” Schweizer says.
Schweizer is the author of multiple New York Times bestsellers, including most recently “The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon.”
In this episode, he breaks down some of the incredible findings of his book.
Over the course of history, “migration has oftentimes been used as a weapon: a weapon of subversion, a weapon to overwhelm an enemy, a weapon to divide an enemy, a weapon to sow chaos,” he says.
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| 0:00.0 | The Chinese government, the CCP, is using birth tourism on an industrial scale. |
| 0:07.0 | Our federal government has no idea. |
| 0:10.0 | The notion that somebody can literally drop off their pregnant wife gives birth here, |
| 0:16.0 | and as soon as the baby is able to get on a plane, you're flying back to China. |
| 0:21.1 | You have anywhere from 50,000 to 100,000 Chinese nationals a year doing this for 13 years. |
| 0:29.6 | Not to even mention the issue of surrogacy, they're going to be voting in our elections. |
| 0:34.5 | In this episode, I'm sitting down with investigative journalist Peter Schweitzer, the author of multiple New York Times bestsellers, including most recently The Invisible Coup. |
| 0:43.3 | They favor mass immigration. Why? Because they see it as having a transformative effect on American society. It's the way to kind of remake society in the vision that they want. |
| 0:58.0 | This is American Thought Leaders, and I'm Yanya Kellick. |
| 1:03.5 | Peter Schweitzer, so good to have you back on American Thought Leaders. |
| 1:06.7 | It's always great to be with you. |
| 1:08.0 | Thanks for having me. |
| 1:09.0 | So congratulations on, at the very least, being at the top of Amazon with your new book. |
| 1:14.8 | That's kind of an unbelievable achievement in itself. I read it through and I discovered so |
| 1:20.2 | many things that I didn't actually know about. Like for example, that there's a template of weaponized |
| 1:25.5 | migration, of weaponizing migration in 1980, right? The |
| 1:29.2 | Mariel Boat Lift in Cuba. Why don't we just start with that? And we're going to jump into |
| 1:33.7 | all things to China, because you know that's what I'm always most interested in. But there's actually |
| 1:37.9 | a template for weaponized migration. I didn't know. What is it? Yeah, it's interesting. We've been |
| 1:42.9 | having this national conversation about immigration as it relates to things like jobs and crime on our streets. |
| 1:49.2 | But this issue of weaponized immigration is new in a lot of respects for a lot of people. |
| 1:54.8 | But we've actually experienced it. And there was a government study that was done probably 20 years ago or so that looked at what |
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