The Chinese “rent-a-womb” industry using American surrogates could be exploited by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), according to The Heritage Foundation researcher Emma Waters.
Commercial surrogacy refers to people who hire another woman to gestate and birth their child for a fee.
According to the expert, according to U.S. birthright citizenship law, any child born in the United States via an American surrogate—even if the child is 100 percent genetically Chinese and its parents are Chinese nationals—will gain the full rights of U.S. citizenship when he or she turns 21 years old.
The child’s parents then become eligible to apply for a Green Card for permanent residency in the United States. In Waters’ opinion, this is a far easier route to gain citizenship than the traditional application process….