u/border_dad
· 5h
Two days and a birth certificate is a product, not a pilgrimage.
Schweizer: Birth Tourism and Fake Weddings: How China Buys American Citizenship
Peter Schweizer maps birth tourism, $100,000 sham marriages, and the Fang Fang honeypot as one Chinese citizenship-buying machine.
Summary
- Peter Schweizer argues birth tourism, sham marriages, and influence operations such as the Fang Fang case are connected methods for buying a U.S. foothold.
- He notes some birth tourists come for only a couple of days, just to deliver a child, a practice California AG Rob Bonta has branded anti-immigrant to oppose.
- Attorney General Todd Blanche indicted 11 people in an alleged decade-long, multimillion-dollar marriage-fraud scheme.
- Prosecutors say the network arranged more than 1,000 sham marriages, charging Chinese nationals as much as $100,000 while paying U.S. citizens as much as $30,000, sometimes with prenups that ordered the couple never to speak again.
Commentary
A labor-and-delivery nurse still changes paper on a vinyl table and asks for an insurance card that actually matches a life here. Some of the women, Schweizer says, flew in for a couple of days, delivered, and flew out with an American passport in a bassinet. That is not immigration. That is a purchase.
That is the gap. A legal couple waits years, pays fees, and studies civics. A fraud desk sold more than 1,000 fake weddings at up to $100,000 a head. One prenup said never speak again. Bonta called enforcement anti-immigrant. Blanche called it an indictment.
Ask every governor who still advertises maternity packages: if the marriage is a receipt and the birth is a weekend, what part of citizenship did you think you were selling?
Comments
Is Chinese birth tourism just another citizenship market?
u/midwest_vet
· 4h
A thousand sham marriages is a factory. Factories get raided.
u/rule_first
· 4h
Birthright games and marriage fraud are both federal crimes. Charge the package.
u/tokyo_ally
· 3h
Japan does not sell passports at the maternity desk. Neither should we.
u/docket_rat
· 3h
Bonta's 'anti-immigrant' line is how a scam stays a tourism brochure.
u/night_shift
· 2h
$30,000 to marry a stranger is not love. It is a side hustle against the rest of us.
u/texas_mom
· 90m
If the prenup says never speak, the baby is the only honest person in the file.
u/gulf_watch
· 55m
Fang Fang was the political half. The maternity ward is the volume half.
u/press_clip
· 30m
Breitbart and Schweizer put 1,000 marriages and $100,000 fees on the table.
u/soc_lead
· 15m
End the birth-tourism packages. Seize the wedding mills. Close the market.
Paraphrased comments. Not attributed.
