The National News Desk Jan Jeffcoat discusses an investigation by Peter Schweizer, President of the Government Accountability Institute and author of “The Invisible Coup“, which claims that the immigration surge is a deliberate strategy by high-level lawmakers.

Here are the key points from the discussion:

• Birthright Citizenship Exploitation: Schweizer will testify before a Senate committee about how China has exploited birthright citizenship on an “industrial scale” through “birth tourism.” Pregnant Chinese women fly to the U.S., give birth, and immediately return to China, where their U.S. citizen children are raised. He states that over 1 million U.S. citizens are living in China and will soon be eligible to vote in U.S. elections.
• National Security Concerns: Beyond voting, these individuals can donate to political campaigns and apply for sensitive government jobs. Schweizer notes that these children are raised under the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) system, and their parents are often Chinese elites, military officers, or CCP officials, indicating a potential for infiltration rather than dissent.
• Surveillance and Subversion: The goal of this practice is surveillance and subversion. Schweizer points out that Hong Kong shut down similar “birth tourism” in 2010 due to concerns about subversion, and the same is happening in the U.S. on a larger scale. The Supreme Court will also be reviewing limitations on birthright citizenship this spring.
• Blind Spot for Lawmakers: Schweizer believes this is a huge national security blind spot for the U.S. He emphasizes that this is not about immigrants making a life in the U.S. but about individuals entering the country solely to give birth, then raising the child in an adversarial country. The CCP has even encouraged this practice through state media.

The fallout of this weaponized immigration surge is told by former congressman Joe Walsh who describes in the city of Los Angeles that of all outstanding warrants for murder, 95% are for illegal aliens.

The immigration surge excruciating cost to America, in particular California residents and taxpayers, is costing $30.3 billion dollars a year which constitutes 17.7% of the entire state budget.

According to Peter Schweizer in the video, birth tourism challenges U.S. sovereignty by creating a population of U.S. citizens who are raised and reside in an adversarial country, particularly China, but possess fundamental rights within the U.S.

Schweizer explains to The National News Desk’s Jeffcoat that birth tourism involves pregnant women flying to the United States to give birth, securing automatic U.S. citizenship for their child, and then immediately returning to their home country, often China, where the child is raised.

The implications of “birth tourism” via the immigration surge, as described by Peter Schweizer, include:

• Voting Rights: These children, even though raised in China, will be able to vote in U.S. elections when they turn 18. The speaker notes that China estimates over 1 million such U.S. citizens are living and being raised in China.
• Access to Sensitive Positions and Influence: As U.S. citizens, they can vote, donate to political campaigns, and apply for sensitive government jobs.
• Potential for Infiltration and Surveillance: The speaker states that these individuals are often raised under the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) system, with parents who are overwhelmingly part of the Chinese elite, including military officers, CCP officials, and propagandists. This raises concerns about them potentially having a “goal” of surveillance when they come to the U.S. using the immigration surge loophole as a means to an end.
• National Security Blind Spot: The speaker views this practice as a “huge blind spot” for U.S. lawmakers and national security, especially since the Chinese Communist Party has actively encouraged it.

For all of the reasons listed above and more, on his first day in office, President Donald Trump issued an executive order aimed at ending the unlawful immigration surge, birthright citizenship for babies of undocumented immigrants, and for people with temporary status in the U.S. via Executive Order 14160: Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship.

“TikTok is owned by ByteDance, a Chinese company. And Chinese companies are vulnerable to the whims and the will of the Chinese government,” Times’ columnist Ezra Klein wrote.

He added, “There is no possible ambiguity on this point: The Chinese Communist Party spent much of the last year cracking down on its tech sector. They made a particular example out of Jack Ma, the high-flying founder of Alibaba. The message was unmistakable: Chief executives will act in accordance with party wishes or see their lives upended and their companies dismembered.”

Klein, who founded the left-wing site Vox, notes the widespread use of TikTok, and argues this underscores the threat it poses to American security.

“TikTok, as we know it today, is only a few years old. But its growth is like nothing we’ve seen before. In 2021, it had more active users than Twitter, more U.S. watch minutes than YouTube, more app downloads than Facebook, more site visits than Google,” he wrote.

In 2020, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to begin the process of banning TikTok.

In the order, the White House warned that China can weaponize Americans’ data using the app, and that the PRC can weaponize TikTok to spread propaganda.

“TikTok automatically captures vast swaths of information from its users, including Internet and other network activity information such as location data and browsing and search histories.  This data collection threatens to allow the Chinese Communist Party access to Americans’ personal and proprietary information — potentially allowing China to track the locations of Federal employees and contractors, build dossiers of personal information for blackmail, and conduct corporate espionage,” the executive order stated.

Additionally, the executive order concluded that the social media company censored content that the Chinese Communist Party considered politically sensitive like the protests in Hong Kong and the treatment of Uyghurs.

President Joe Biden delivers remarks during an event at the White House, Oct. 4, 2021. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Upon taking office, President Biden replaced Trump’s executive order with his own. According to Klein, while Biden’s new order regulates data collection, “it does not address the other ways that China could weaponize the platform”, like TikTok’s manipulation problem.

“TikTok’s real power isn’t over our data. It’s over what users watch and create. It’s over the opaque algorithm that governs what gets seen and what doesn’t,” Klein wrote.

Klein argues that the fact that China sees a free and open internet as a threat to its government is just another indicator that they will use it to sow division and spread pro-CCP propaganda in the United States.

“China has long seen these platforms as potential weapons. As China’s authoritarian turn continues, and as relations between our countries worsen, it is not far-fetched to suspect they might do unto us what they have always feared we would do unto them,” he wrote.

Klein compares China’s influence on Americans via TikTok with the prospect of the Soviet Union having bought out local television stations throughout the country during the Cold War. He says the Soviet propaganda would actually be less dangerous because Americans would know they are viewing Russian-owned TV, whereas the lines are more blurred with TikTok.

Chinese President Xi Jinping and former President Donald Trump (Getty | AP)

“The social media platforms that hold and shape our attention need to be governed in the public interest. That means knowing who’s truly running them and how they’re running them,” Klein wrote. “On this, Donald Trump was right, and the Biden administration should finish what he started.”