Thanks to questionable programs like birthright citizenship, and chain migration, as many as 1.5 million Chinese may be eligible to vote by 2030.

The startling number, revealed in Peter Schweizer’s new best selling book, “The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon,” is likely only surprising to people who haven’t paid attention to how immigration has radically altered the nation during the last half of a century.

Immigration advocates, members of Congress, the legacy media, and religious institutions have all relentlessly pressed for and, by and large, successfully gained higher levels of new permanent lawful residents, refugees, asylees, and temporary visa holders. “Auto-Pen” Joe Biden delivered the nearly fatal blow to enforcement advocates when he opened the border wide and admitted all comers including Venezuelan criminals, escaped mental patients, Tren de Aragua gangbangers, and Middle Eastern terrorists.

Nowhere, however, has the U.S. laid down more passively on immigration than it has to China, our nation’s most powerful and determined adversary. Several administrations have allowed China to buy up precious commercial real estate and farmland – adjacent to military compounds, no less – and build bio-labs right under our nose. Except for Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton’s common-sense suggestion Chinese F-1 student visa holders be admitted to U.S. universities only under the condition they study the Constitution and the Founding Fathers, there’s been little pushback.

Thomas Jefferson, yes. STEM, no.

Even when U.S. Rep. Eric Swalwell’s (D-Calif.) affair with infamous Chinese spy Fang Fang was made public, he only got a slap on the wrist. No one knows what secrets Fang Fang might have extracted from Swalwell during their pillow talk. A Chinese national chauffeured former Senator Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.) for two decades. When the FBI exposed the scandal, the chauffeur disappeared back to China and Feinstein lamely said she was as surprised as anyone a spy was driving her around town and functioning as her gofer. Keep in mind, Feinstein was chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee at the time.

Nowhere has the U.S. laid down so completely than on the in-your-face birth hotel scam. Starting about two decades ago, hundreds of Chinese mothers traveled to the U. S. while they were pregnant to give birth on American soil so their kids became automatic citizens. When such children turn 21, they can also apply for resident status for both their parents. Of course, illegal aliens from China continue to cross the southern border as they have for years. A pregnant illegal alien comes across the border, has a baby, and suddenly not only that baby but the entire family comes to the country to stay. Since 2018, birth tourism has created anywhere from 150,000 to 250,000 U.S. citizens.

The Department of Homeland Security is passive on birth citizenship hotels, low hanging fruit it could easily end. On a specific day, enforcement officers could target specific hotels in major cities like Los Angeles, and New York and demand to see the registered guests’ visas, which will quickly be identified as fraudulent. The foreign nationals are not, as they declared, tourists but women in advanced pregnancy, present to give birth.

Visa fraud is a federal felony, punishable by, in part, deportation. If a medical doctor declares the expectant scamsters medically eligible to travel, deport them. If their pregnancy is too advanced to risk travel, confine them under DHS supervision, and post-partum, deport them. Once the word gets out that DHS is cracking down on the birth hotel rip-off, business will soon dry up – -bad news for the hotel operators found guilty in previous raids of sex trafficking and money laundering.

The criminals immediately absconded.

During Trump’s first term, the federal government tried to limit birth tourism. The Department of State announced in January 2020, “[T]he Department is amending its B nonimmigrant visa regulation to address birth tourism. Under this amended regulation, U.S. consular officers overseas will deny any B visa application from an applicant whom the consular officer has reason to believe is traveling for the primary purpose of giving birth in the United States to obtain U.S. citizenship for their child.”

This lame effort went nowhere, and now Trump is trying to eliminate birthright citizenship through a Supreme Court ruling, which is moving at glacier speed to avoid hearing the sovereignty determining issue.

Without immediate America first action, Schweizer’s grim prediction that Chinese nationals will determine the 2030’s election fate will come true.

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Copyright 2026 Joe Guzzardi, distributed by Cagle Cartoons newspaper syndicate.

Joe Guzzardi is an Institute for Sound Public Policy analyst who has written about immigration for more than 30 years. Contact him at [email protected].