Investigative journalist Peter Schweizer says birth tourism and surrogacy practices could result in more than one million U.S. citizens raised in China becoming eligible voters in the next decade.
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More than one million Chinese nationals who obtained U.S. citizenship at birth but were raised in the People’s Republic of China could begin voting in American elections by 2030, according to findings outlined by investigative journalist Peter Schweizer in his new book, The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon.
Schweizer, a #1 New York Times bestselling author and senior contributor to Breitbart News, argues that Chinese elites have systematically exploited U.S. birthright citizenship laws through large-scale birth tourism, a practice in which pregnant women travel to the United States to give birth so their children automatically acquire U.S. citizenship. He details these findings in his book The Invisible Coup.
According to Schweizer, one of the primary incentives behind birth tourism is the immigration pathway it creates for parents. Once U.S.-born children turn 21, they are eligible to sponsor their parents for permanent residency. Schweizer highlights the U.S. territory of Saipan as a case study, writing that more than 70 percent of newborns there are born to parents from the People’s Republic of China who take advantage of the territory’s 45-day visa-free entry rules and the Covenant of the Northern Mariana Islands to secure U.S. citizenship for their children.
Because the federal government does not directly track birth tourism, Schweizer writes that the true scale of the practice is unknown. He cites estimates from Chinese officials who place the number at roughly 50,000 births per year, while scholars such as Australian professor Salvatore Babones estimate the figure may be as high as 100,000 annually. Babones wrote that “with up to 100,000 Chinese babies being born US citizens every year, birth tourism may result in millions of new elite Chinese-Americans.”
Other data sources estimate the numbers could be higher. Schweizer cites findings from Media Research, a Chinese data analysis firm, which reported that approximately 150,000 individuals traveled from China to the United States for birth tourism in 2018 alone.
Based on these estimates, Schweizer writes that between 750,000 and 1.5 million individuals who are Chinese nationals by upbringing but American citizens by birth are now approaching adulthood in China. He warns that this demographic could begin impacting U.S. elections as early as 2030, when the earliest cohorts reach voting age.
“This presents a unique challenge,” Schweizer writes, noting that many of these individuals “have no memories or allegiance to our country” and were educated in Chinese Communist Party-controlled schools. He adds that, as U.S. citizens, they are legally eligible to vote, relocate to the United States, and later sponsor their parents for immigration.
Schweizer argues that large-scale birth tourism accelerated during the Obama administration and became increasingly organized. He writes that the practice in China is supported by networks aligned with the Chinese Communist Party and may represent a form of strategic exploitation of U.S. immigration law. According to Schweizer, many parents involved are CCP members, intelligence officials, or senior government figures.
In addition to birth tourism, Schweizer details the use of U.S.-based surrogate mothers by Chinese elites to produce children who automatically receive American citizenship. He describes this practice as widespread and largely unregulated.
One example cited is Guojun Xuan, a Chinese Communist Party official who Schweizer says owns more than $100 million in California real estate and has been involved in extensive surrogacy arrangements across the United States. Schweizer recounts that in May 2025, authorities discovered 15 children living in Xuan’s $4.1 million Arcadia, California, residence after an infant under his care was hospitalized with head injuries. Investigators ultimately identified 21 children connected to Xuan, ranging in age from two months to 13 years.
According to Schweizer, Xuan coordinated the births through a company called Mark Surrogacy Investment LLC, which operated across multiple states. He writes that surrogates were often unaware that multiple women were simultaneously carrying children for the same clients, and neighbors reported seeing a steady flow of pregnant women entering and leaving the property.
Schweizer describes Xuan as only one example of a broader trend, writing that California records show at least 107 companies with “surrogacy” in their names that are owned by Chinese individuals. He argues that these practices, combined with birth tourism, could significantly reshape the U.S. electorate over time.
Schweizer discusses these findings further in public presentations and interviews, including a detailed overview available in Manchurian Generation, where he outlines what he describes as long-term demographic and national security implications stemming from current immigration and citizenship policies.
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