More than a thousand companies in China are openly marketing services that help wealthy Chinese nationals travel to the United States, give birth on American soil, and secure U.S. citizenship for their children, charging fees as high as $80,000, according to author and investigator Peter Schweizer. His warning landed on the same day the Supreme Court heard oral arguments over President Donald Trump's executive order seeking to limit birthright citizenship.
Schweizer, author of "The Invisible Coup," laid out the scope of the practice during a Wednesday appearance on "Jesse Watters Primetime." He described a pipeline that he said the Chinese Communist Party itself helped create, and one that, if left unchecked, could hand voting rights and family-sponsorship privileges to a population he estimated at between one million and one and a half million people now being raised inside China.
The timing matters. The Supreme Court is weighing a landmark legal challenge to Trump's executive order, which seeks to narrow protections for children born to non-residents on U.S. soil. The Court's eventual ruling could determine whether practices like the ones Schweizer described continue without restriction or face limits under federal policy.
Schweizer did not mince words about the scale of the operation. He told Fox News:
"The Chinese Communist Party, about 12, 13 years ago, started explaining to the Chinese elite in the People's Daily, in official publications, 'Hey, guess what? Your kids can get U.S. citizenship if you do this,' and a massive industry was born."
That timeline, roughly 2012 or 2013, places the origin of the push squarely in the era when Beijing was expanding its global influence campaigns across multiple fronts. Schweizer said the result was not a trickle of opportunistic travelers but a coordinated commercial enterprise.
He called the participants "members of the Chinese elite" and described the numbers as "mind-boggling." On Fox News, Schweizer stated plainly:
"It is a massive effort. It is an organized effort."
The more than 1,000 companies he cited are, in his telling, openly advertising these services inside China. Clients pay up to $80,000 for assistance arranging travel, logistics, and delivery on American soil, all to obtain a U.S. birth certificate and the citizenship that comes with it.
Schweizer's concern extends well beyond the birth itself. Under current law, a child born on U.S. soil is a citizen regardless of the parents' immigration status. That child can vote at 18. And at 21, that citizen can sponsor parents and other family members for permanent resident status in the United States.
Schweizer spelled out the implications directly to host Jesse Watters:
"The belief is that there's between a million and a million and a half Chinese nationals that are 'U.S. citizens' being raised in China right now. That means they're going to be able to vote when they turn 18 years old, and they're going to have a whole bunch of other rights."
He added:
"And when they turn 21, Jesse, they can sponsor their parents and other family members to get permanent resident status in the United States."
If those estimates are even roughly accurate, the long-term consequences for American elections, immigration policy, and national security are difficult to overstate. A generation of citizens with no meaningful connection to the country, raised entirely abroad, in a nation governed by an adversarial regime, would gain full participation in the American political system simply by virtue of where they were born.
President Trump made birthright citizenship a focal point of his immigration agenda, issuing an executive order that seeks to narrow the constitutional provision. That order quickly drew legal challenges, and the case has now reached the highest court in the land. As the Supreme Court heard oral arguments challenging Trump's birthright citizenship executive order, demonstrators gathered outside the building in Washington, D.C., on May 15, 2025, in support of the existing policy.
Trump himself attended the proceedings in person, a move Fox News described as "a historic appearance at the court." The president's physical presence underscored how central the issue is to his administration's broader immigration enforcement posture.
That posture has extended across multiple fronts. The administration has moved aggressively on border security and institutional accountability, including episodes like the reclaiming of Border Patrol social media accounts after an official refused to surrender them.
The birthright case, though, carries stakes that dwarf any single bureaucratic dispute. The Fourteenth Amendment's citizenship clause has been interpreted for more than a century to guarantee citizenship to anyone born on U.S. soil. Trump's order would carve out an exception for children born to parents who are not lawful permanent residents or citizens. Opponents call it unconstitutional. Supporters say the original meaning of the amendment was never intended to cover birth tourism or the children of illegal immigrants.
Schweizer's framing shifts the conversation from the familiar domestic immigration debate to something more pointed: the possibility that a foreign adversary is deliberately exploiting a constitutional provision to embed future citizens loyal to, or at minimum raised under the authority of, the Chinese Communist Party.
He did not present this as speculation. He pointed to the People's Daily and other official Chinese publications as the vehicles through which the CCP promoted the strategy to its own elites. Whether those publications contain the specific guidance Schweizer described is not independently verified in the Fox News report. But the claim, if accurate, would mean Beijing did not merely tolerate the practice, it encouraged and facilitated it.
The distinction matters. Birth tourism by individual families seeking opportunity is one thing. A state-promoted campaign by a geopolitical rival to manufacture American citizens is quite another. Trump's front-row seat at the Supreme Court for these arguments sent a clear signal about where the administration stands on that distinction.
Schweizer's claims are striking, but several questions remain open. The Fox News report does not identify the underlying data or methodology behind his estimate of one million to one and a half million Chinese-born U.S. citizens being raised in China. Nor does it name specific companies or provide documentary evidence from the People's Daily. The exact executive order at issue and its docket number are not specified in the report.
Those gaps do not make the claims false. They do mean the public deserves more transparency about the evidence, and that the Supreme Court's deliberations will carry enormous weight regardless of which side prevails.
The broader pattern, however, is hard to dismiss. The Trump administration has pursued policy changes across immigration, energy, and foreign affairs with a consistent thesis: that American institutions have been too passive in the face of exploitation by adversaries and rule-breakers alike. Whether the subject is record energy production or the birthright citizenship fight, the administration's argument is that decades of inaction created vulnerabilities that demand correction.
Schweizer's warning fits squarely within that argument. If more than a thousand companies in China are running a conveyor belt that turns wealthy clients' newborns into American citizens, and if the CCP helped build that conveyor belt, then the question before the Supreme Court is not abstract constitutional theory. It is whether the United States will continue to let an adversary exploit a loophole that the Founders almost certainly never imagined.
A country that cannot decide who its citizens are will eventually discover that someone else has decided for it.
