Chinese Billionaire Fathers 100+ Children Through U.S.
This story raises questions about governance, accountability, and American values.
A Chinese billionaire reportedly fathers 100-plus kids through American surrogates and suddenly our immigration debate sounds like a Silicon Valley hustle pitch. If CBS has the basics right, this isn’t some quirky human-interest story. It’s a rich foreign national using U.
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A Chinese billionaire who has reportedly fathered more than 100 children through American surrogates is raising more concern about the limits of America’s birthright citizenship policy, and whether U.S. citizenship should effectively be purchased by way of a surrogate.
CBS News reported that a woman identified as “Judy” became a surrogate after seeing an Instagram
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A Chinese billionaire reportedly fathers 100-plus kids through American surrogates and suddenly our immigration debate sounds like a Silicon Valley hustle pitch. If CBS has the basics right, this isn’t some quirky human-interest story. It’s a rich foreign national using U.S. soil, U.S. clinics, and U.S. paperwork to mint U.S. passports for a small town’s worth of children. That’s not “the American dream.” That’s a loophole with a price tag.
Birthright citizenship was never meant to be a luxury service for people who can afford a fleet of lawyers and a surrogacy assembly line. We can feel sympathy for the women pulled in by glossy Instagram ads and big checks and still say the obvious: when citizenship becomes a product, the country gets treated like a mall. If you can buy the outcome, you don’t respect the rules.
And yes, the left will suddenly find its appetite for “open” borders a little harder to defend when the person exploiting the system is a billionaire who can work it better than any poor migrant ever could. But the answer isn’t hand-wringing or pretending this is too “complicated” to touch. Congress can narrow the definition, tighten residency requirements for parents, and stop rewarding blatant citizenship shopping, while leaving legitimate cases alone. Close the loophole, don’t punish the innocent.
We’ve spent years being told there’s no such thing as gaming the system, that it’s all just desperate people and happy coincidences. Here’s the reality check. If someone can reportedly stack up 100 U.S.-citizen children through surrogacy, then the policy isn’t compassionate. It’s careless. And it’s long past time Washington acted like citizenship is something you join, not something you order.
Commentary written with AI assistance by the New Republican Times Editorial Board.