Why Chinese Communist Media Is Touting the US Constitution
This affects the entire country.
The Chinese Communist Party oddly found a reason to promote the U.S. Constitution, or at least an interpretation of it, journalist and author Peter Schweizer noted before a Senate panel Tuesday.
At a hearing on birthright citizenship, Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., asked Schweizer if the Chinese government promotes exploiting the concept.
“They have run articles in the People’s Daily, which is the main news organ of the Communist Party, explaining that you have a constitutional right in the United States,” said Schweizer, president of the watchdog Government Accountability Institute and author of the recent book, “The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon.”
“There is a certain irony there, the CCP officials are explaining constitutional rights to their own elite,” Schweizer said. “There are nationalist websites that talk about it. There is discussion about this in the Chinese media. There’s no condemnation of it.”
The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution held a hearing Tuesday titled “Protecting American Citizenship: Birthright Citizenship for Illegal Aliens and Tourists.”
Birthright citizenship is the view that anyone born in the United States, even a child of illegal immigrants, is automatically a U.S. citizen.
The Supreme Court is set to hear a case on birthright citizenship on April 1 in the case of Trump v. Barbara about President Donald Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship.
The high court case has the potential to overturn a Supreme Court precedent going back to 1898, when the majority upheld birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment, which was enacted to grant citizenship to freed slaves after the Civil War.
Schmitt, the subcommittee chairman, argued, “Citizenship should never be a loophole.”
“An entire birth tourism industry has emerged around that goal; illegal immigration is fueled by the belief that a child born here will receive automatic citizenship,” the senator said.
“The citizenship clause was written to correct a grave injustice. It was not written to create an incentive to prop up our tourism industry or incentivize illegally crossing our borders,” Schmitt said.
For China and birth tourism, Schweizer said, the “scope of this is industrial.”
“In China alone, we have identified more than 1,000 birth tourism companies that are almost exclusively focused on the United States,” Schweizer said. “Our federal government does not track this information because there is no centralized collection of information on the nationality of parents or giving birth.”
Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said that Trump’s executive order would “overturn black letter constitutional law and statute by royal fiat.”
“It’s an attack on millions of immigrants who have contributed in countless ways to our culture and our economy,” Durbin said. “The executive order would create a permanent underclass of American-born children who would contribute to our nation and yet be denied the opportunity of citizenship.”
Durbin, Senate Democrats, and Democrat witnesses on the panel argued that immigration authorities have the …
This affects the entire country.
The Chinese Communist Party oddly found a reason to promote the U.S. Constitution, or at least an interpretation of it, journalist and author Peter Schweizer noted before a Senate panel Tuesday.
At a hearing on birthright citizenship, Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., asked Schweizer if the Chinese government promotes exploiting the concept.
“They have run articles in the People’s Daily, which is the main news organ of the Communist Party, explaining that you have a constitutional right in the United States,” said Schweizer, president of the watchdog Government Accountability Institute and author of the recent book, “The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon.”
“There is a certain irony there, the CCP officials are explaining constitutional rights to their own elite,” Schweizer said. “There are nationalist websites that talk about it. There is discussion about this in the Chinese media. There’s no condemnation of it.”
The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution held a hearing Tuesday titled “Protecting American Citizenship: Birthright Citizenship for Illegal Aliens and Tourists.”
Birthright citizenship is the view that anyone born in the United States, even a child of illegal immigrants, is automatically a U.S. citizen.
The Supreme Court is set to hear a case on birthright citizenship on April 1 in the case of Trump v. Barbara about President Donald Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship.
The high court case has the potential to overturn a Supreme Court precedent going back to 1898, when the majority upheld birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment, which was enacted to grant citizenship to freed slaves after the Civil War.
Schmitt, the subcommittee chairman, argued, “Citizenship should never be a loophole.”
“An entire birth tourism industry has emerged around that goal; illegal immigration is fueled by the belief that a child born here will receive automatic citizenship,” the senator said.
“The citizenship clause was written to correct a grave injustice. It was not written to create an incentive to prop up our tourism industry or incentivize illegally crossing our borders,” Schmitt said.
For China and birth tourism, Schweizer said, the “scope of this is industrial.”
“In China alone, we have identified more than 1,000 birth tourism companies that are almost exclusively focused on the United States,” Schweizer said. “Our federal government does not track this information because there is no centralized collection of information on the nationality of parents or giving birth.”
Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said that Trump’s executive order would “overturn black letter constitutional law and statute by royal fiat.”
“It’s an attack on millions of immigrants who have contributed in countless ways to our culture and our economy,” Durbin said. “The executive order would create a permanent underclass of American-born children who would contribute to our nation and yet be denied the opportunity of citizenship.”
Durbin, Senate Democrats, and Democrat witnesses on the panel argued that immigration authorities have the …
Why Chinese Communist Media Is Touting the US Constitution
This affects the entire country.
The Chinese Communist Party oddly found a reason to promote the U.S. Constitution, or at least an interpretation of it, journalist and author Peter Schweizer noted before a Senate panel Tuesday.
At a hearing on birthright citizenship, Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., asked Schweizer if the Chinese government promotes exploiting the concept.
“They have run articles in the People’s Daily, which is the main news organ of the Communist Party, explaining that you have a constitutional right in the United States,” said Schweizer, president of the watchdog Government Accountability Institute and author of the recent book, “The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon.”
“There is a certain irony there, the CCP officials are explaining constitutional rights to their own elite,” Schweizer said. “There are nationalist websites that talk about it. There is discussion about this in the Chinese media. There’s no condemnation of it.”
The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution held a hearing Tuesday titled “Protecting American Citizenship: Birthright Citizenship for Illegal Aliens and Tourists.”
Birthright citizenship is the view that anyone born in the United States, even a child of illegal immigrants, is automatically a U.S. citizen.
The Supreme Court is set to hear a case on birthright citizenship on April 1 in the case of Trump v. Barbara about President Donald Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship.
The high court case has the potential to overturn a Supreme Court precedent going back to 1898, when the majority upheld birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment, which was enacted to grant citizenship to freed slaves after the Civil War.
Schmitt, the subcommittee chairman, argued, “Citizenship should never be a loophole.”
“An entire birth tourism industry has emerged around that goal; illegal immigration is fueled by the belief that a child born here will receive automatic citizenship,” the senator said.
“The citizenship clause was written to correct a grave injustice. It was not written to create an incentive to prop up our tourism industry or incentivize illegally crossing our borders,” Schmitt said.
For China and birth tourism, Schweizer said, the “scope of this is industrial.”
“In China alone, we have identified more than 1,000 birth tourism companies that are almost exclusively focused on the United States,” Schweizer said. “Our federal government does not track this information because there is no centralized collection of information on the nationality of parents or giving birth.”
Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said that Trump’s executive order would “overturn black letter constitutional law and statute by royal fiat.”
“It’s an attack on millions of immigrants who have contributed in countless ways to our culture and our economy,” Durbin said. “The executive order would create a permanent underclass of American-born children who would contribute to our nation and yet be denied the opportunity of citizenship.”
Durbin, Senate Democrats, and Democrat witnesses on the panel argued that immigration authorities have the …
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