Schweizer Tells Senate Committee: "Birth Tourism is a Major National Security Threat"

The Drill Down with Peter Schweizer

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🗓️ 12 March 2026

⏱️ 28 minutes

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“Birth Tourism” is a major national security threat, with as many as 1.5 million Chinese children who were born as “birthright” US citizens potentially becoming voters in US elections, author Peter Schweizer told a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday. Sitting on a panel with three constitutional lawyers and a US Marine, Schweizer told senators that China has created an “industrial scale” way of creating American citizens who are born in the US and quickly whisked back to China where they are raised and indoctrinated in the Chinese Communist Party’s ways. He cited Chinese government and academic estimates that between 50,000 and 100,000 Chinese have been on US soil since 2013, meaning they are only a few years away from being old enough to vote.

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0:00.0	Research that resonates.
0:05.0	He's the president of the Government Accountability Institute, Peter Switzer.
0:09.0	Peter Schweitzer. Peter Schweitzer. Peter Schweitzer has spent many years, in fact, probably
0:16.0	done a more comprehensive job than anyone's ever done, chronicling the corruption by the powerful in Washington.
0:26.1	Be very prescient Eric Eggers. Join me right now is Government Accountability Institute Research Director, Eric Eggers. We're going to take information that we've learned, that people like
0:30.6	Peter Schweitzer have uncovered, and we're going to try to go further. Great investigative reporting,
0:36.1	Peter. You're the only one doing it. Thank God.
0:38.3	Eric Eggers from the Government Accountability Institute and co-hosts of that great podcast, The Drilled Down with Peter Schweitzer.
0:45.3	This is The Drill Down with Peter Schweitzer.
0:49.3	Hi, it's Peter Schweitzer and welcome to The Drill Down. I'm coming to you from Washington, D.C., where we've been testifying on Capitol Hill.
0:57.0	We're going to unpack what happened, all the drama, who showed up, who didn't show up on this episode.
1:02.5	And we're going to do that, of course, with Eric Eggers.
1:04.3	Eric's going to be joining me here in D.C. soon.
1:06.4	Eric, how are you doing?
1:08.0	I hope I'm going to be joining you in Washington, D.C. Apparently, you know, the idea of flying with this sort of limited government shutdown
1:14.1	is not a guarantee, which is why your strategy of driving everywhere.
1:18.8	Yet another thing you may prove to be correct about, Peter Schweitzer.
1:22.8	You were proven correct, I think, on a number of fronts yesterday.
1:25.7	I'm so proud of you.
1:26.8	We were watching on
1:27.7	the TVs as you were on Capitol Hill testifying the Senate committee. We could see Seamus Bruner,
1:33.6	our colleague behind you. So I'm so excited. We have some clips of your testimony to play. But I guess,
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