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Reports say as many as one million U.S. citizens born via Chinese birth tourism could become eligible to vote in the coming years. For the past two decades, wealthy Chinese people have exploited America's birthright citizenship, and now investigative journalist Peter Schweitzer is sounding the alarm. Jan Jekielek, host of American Thought Leaders on Epic TV, spoke with him earlier to learn about how it all works. Schweitzer is the author of multiple New York Times bestsellers, including most recently The Invisible Coup, How American Elites and 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. Well, you do have a chapter at the end of the book that tries to do that. And I mean, as I was looking through that, some of it is around shifting the incentive structures of people coming here. So, you know, a big part of what it comes to the CCP's weaponization of migration is this birth tourism. Fascinating, shocking, and deeply disturbing examples. You suggest that it could be there's a million American citizens, half a million to a million American citizens who have their allegiance to the Chinese Communist Party. How do you get that number? That's a really large number of people. I agree it's a really large number of people and I was shocked by it. The birthright citizenship issue to me is really central because it is a massive vulnerability and it's something that can be fixed. We'll see what the Supreme Court is going to settle on this. But the important thing for people to understand is the Chinese government, the CCP, is using birth tourism on an industrial scale. They are exploiting it on an industrial scale. So what do I mean? Well, any numbers that we have related to how many Chinese nationals are flying to the United States, giving birth here, and then flying home with a baby, raising them in communist China, and then when they turn 18, they're going to be citizens, they can vote and do everything. Our federal government has no idea. We don't track this information because you're given a birth certificate when your child is born here. Whether you're an American citizen, whether you're a Chinese birth tourist, you get a birth certificate that does not list the nationality of the parents. Nobody tracks this. So our federal government says, we have no idea. The number of half a million to a million, maybe more, comes actually from China. The Chinese government has looked at this and estimates, the Chinese government and some research firms say that over the past roughly 13 years, you have anywhere from 50,000 to 100,000 Chinese nationals a year doing this for 13 years, which is stunning. And there's a lot of anecdotal evidence to support this, in addition to the data from China. Reports of these flights from Los Angeles, LAX to Shanghai, where the entire business section is largely populated by newborn babies. So it's a huge problem. And I think we have to dispel the idea that birth tourism or birthright citizenship, I should say, is just something, you know, somebody comes across the border, they make a life here, they're here for 20 years, they have a couple of kids. That's not what we're talking about here. We're talking about very systematic, and we're talking about something China did in Hong Kong for a while. It reached the point around 2010 that half of all newborns in Hong Kong were Chinese nationals getting birthright citizenship in Hong Kong. The government had to stop it. The government in Hong Kong at that point had to stop it because they said, this is subversion, we can't allow this to go on. Something similar is playing out in the United States.