American citizenship was once earned through sacrifice and handed down by generations who understood its gravity. For most of our history, it could not be claimed simply—our Founders designed it that way. But now, foreign adversaries are walking through an open door.
Conservatives have long warned about a vulnerability in the birthright citizenship framework. The political establishment dismissed these concerns as xenophobic noise. Now, the warnings have proven accurate—and the evidence is far worse than anticipated.
A Chinese billionaire has reportedly fathered over 100 children through American surrogates, raising serious questions about America’s birthright citizenship policy and whether U.S. citizenship can be effectively purchased via surrogate arrangements.
A woman known as “Judy” became a surrogate after seeing an Instagram advertisement promising $120,000. The single mother, who has a 7-year-old daughter, said the money would help her buy a home and “build a better life.”
After signing with a surrogacy agency called “Patriot Conceptions,” Judy discovered she was carrying a child for a man who had already hired numerous surrogates. She has been asked to meet him at least five times but has been denied each time. To this operation, she is not a person—she is a rented womb with a price tag.
Leaked documents identify the father as Xu Bo, a Chinese national and wealthy video game executive. He has been linked to over 100 children born in the U.S. through surrogacy. A former business partner estimates the total at 300.
Xu recently posted a social media photo showing over 100 young children seated neatly in rows—a product catalog, not a family gathering or birthday party. Each child holds an American passport, and Xu Bo has never waited in an immigration line for his children.
The alarming shift occurred days after posting that image: Xu stated in Chinese that “more children bring more blessings” and that he hopes his actions will benefit “the long-term development of the Chinese nation.”
Not America—never the country whose citizenship these children hold. The Chinese nation. He spoke this plainly, in Mandarin, for the world to hear.
This is not a man building a family. It is a strategic operation: a Chinese billionaire exploiting American law, American women, and American soil to mass-produce citizens dedicated to a rival power’s ambitions. While birth tourism has long been an issue—couples traveling to U.S. soil to give birth and then securing passports for newborns—Xu Bo has industrialized the scheme. He has turned a loophole into a pipeline.
The 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868 specifically to guarantee citizenship to freed slaves and their descendants—a righteous correction to a national sin. Its framers would have found the idea of a foreign billionaire producing hundreds of American citizens via commercial surrogacy absurd.
Yet, recent Supreme Court interpretations have extended birthright citizenship to virtually anyone born on U.S. soil, regardless of parental status. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has called such claims “absurd,” and Florida lawmakers have already moved to restrict surrogacy arrangements with citizens from adversarial nations like China. Every state legislature should take heed.
The Constitution is not a self-destruct button. Originalism requires us to read the 14th Amendment as its framers intended—not as a blank check for foreign powers to exploit. American citizenship is the most consequential grant this nation makes. When a Chinese billionaire can purchase it by the hundred—creating a small army of passport holders whose existence serves a hostile government’s goals—we are not dealing with an immigration quirk. We face a national security breach hidden behind outdated legal interpretation.
If America won’t defend the meaning of its own citizenship, there won’t be a country left worth defending.
