When a hostile nation senses weakness in its leading geopolitical opponent, all the lessons of history tell us that vulnerability will be exploited to the full. The United States has opened itself to inordinate and irregular migration through a deliberate watering down of immigration laws and their enforcement. While enthusiastic advocates of this agenda have applauded the influx of refugees from the Global South, a broad path has also been cleared for communist superpower China to infiltrate its number one competitor for dominance on the world stage.
“A two-count indictment was unsealed ... charging 11 individuals with conspiring, over the course of more than a decade, to orchestrate more than 1,000 sham marriages to fraudulently obtain immigration status for foreign nationals, primarily citizens of the People’s Republic of China. Some individuals paid up to $100,000 per sham marriage, according to the indictment,” the Justice Department announced Aug. 12. The operation was extremely well-organized.
“Although based principally in New York City, the network allegedly arranged sham marriages throughout the United States and overseas, including in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, Vanuatu, and China,” the DOJ revealed.
Tempting Americans to Betray Their Country
American citizens are key to the scheme’s success. “The defendants executed the fraud by pairing foreign nationals with US citizens,” the department continued. “The individuals would often meet for the first time immediately before obtaining a marriage license, arranging sham wedding ceremonies, and staging photographs designed to make those marriages appear legitimate.”
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Just as there will always be Americans willing to smuggle illegal aliens over the southern border for cold, hard cash, so too are there citizens ready to participate in this sham. Neither example of pure opportunistic greed would be so increasingly commonplace in a nation that took immigration enforcement seriously. A dark black market has been allowed to flourish, and China has pounced.
“Two US Navy service members are facing federal fraud charges after accepting thousands of dollars as payment for entering sham marriages with Chinese immigrants, according to federal prosecutors in Florida,” The New York Times reported in January. “Prosecutors accused Morgan Chambers and Jacinth Bailey, both female members of the Navy, of participating in a scheme in which American citizens would marry Chinese nationals to help them obtain green cards.”
The financial rewards are substantial. Chambers stated in court filings that she “was offered $35,000, including $10,000 in upfront cash, another $20,000 when the Chinese national whom she married obtained a green card and then $5,000 when the couple’s divorce was settled,” the paper wrote. Two male US Navy members were charged in a similar scheme one year earlier, the Times noted.
Birth of a China Domestic Threat
Fraudulent marriages are but one way communist China has weaponized a lax immigration enforcement system against America. In March, Peter Schweizer, president of the Government Accountability Institute, testified before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee on the alarming national security risks behind an exploding industry targeting the United States’ controversially defined all-encompassing birthright citizenship policy.
“Chinese officials have estimated 50,000 of their citizens per year engage in birth tourism; scholars such as Australian professor Salvatore Babones suggest the number is closer to 100,000 annually. … Chinese data firms reported 150,000 arrivals for this purpose in 2018 alone,” Schweizer stated. “This practice has flourished over the past 15 years, meaning that at least 750,000 – and possibly up to 1.5 million – Chinese nationals now hold US citizenship by birth on American soil.”
Anyone doubting those figures may be sobered by just one example of China birth tourism on US soil in action.
“A Chinese national pleaded guilty today to federal criminal charges for running an Orange County-based ‘birth tourism’ business that catered to wealthy pregnant clients and Chinese government officials,” US Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced in a 2019 news release. “According to a January 2019 federal grand jury indictment against [Dongyuan] Li, You Win advertised that it had served more than 500 Chinese birth tourism customers seeking US birthright citizenship for their children. The indictment details that Li used 20 apartments in Irvine, charged each customer between $40,000 and $80,000, and she received $3 million in international wire transfers from China in two years.”
One case in one state. More than 500 newly minted American citizens. And it’s been going on for decades.
China is also utilizing the US territories of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands as birth tourism havens. Once again, porous American immigration protocols have given the Red Chinese an edge.
A “program currently allows Chinese nationals to visit the US territories of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands visa-free for up to 14 days,” CBS News reported in January. “The Guam-CNMI Visa Waiver Program was created in 2009. It allows holders of Hong Kong passports to travel to the islands for up to 45 days without obtaining a visa.”
The progressive establishment and big-box narrative painting illegal aliens as suffering migrants and refugees desperately seeking a better life has also been exploited to the hilt.
“The United Nations estimates that 137,143 Chinese nationals lived abroad as asylum seekers by the end of 2023, with the vast majority of them (112,495) in the US,” the Federation for American Immigration Reform noted in September 2025. “Once Chinese migrants make it past the US border, either by being allowed in or by paying tens of thousands of dollars to be smuggled in, they have the option of applying for asylum as a route to gain legal status. Economic reasons are not valid grounds for asylum, so many Chinese nationals solicit the help of lawyers who coach them with fake stories of political or religious oppression.”
Americans are just now beginning to see the tip of the hostile spear they have allowed to enter this nation’s heartland. Acts of biological and economic sabotage involving Chinese nationals have entered the same braying 24-hour news cycle that for so long has celebrated massive legal and illegal immigration. Suspected Chinese spies have been closely connected to leading officeholders at the city, state, and national levels. And US universities have been severely compromised by their close associations with the bloodstained Beijing regime.
As is the case with the voter-registration chaos corrupting American elections today, the same bitter recipe baked this poisonous cake. Basic immigration enforcement norms have been defanged, derailed, or otherwise mucked up and muddied. The system has been deliberately flooded. Why should anyone be surprised that hostile forces have ridden in on the subverting tide?
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