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The Preliminary Hearing Plan + DSA’s Democrat Takeover

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The Hart-Celler Act: How America Opened the Floodgates in 1965

The Preliminary Hearing Plan + DSA’s Democrat Takeover · Jul 2, 2026 History

The Hart-Celler Act of 1965 replaced national-origins quotas with a family-reunification system, exploding annual legal immigration from roughly 297,000 to 1.2 million. Ted Kennedy famously promised it would not change the demographic makeup of America. The foreign-born population has since grown from 5% to roughly 15% — some 60 million people.

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Chinese Birth Tourism and National Security Threat

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Rep. Ogles escalates the argument into the realm of national security, citing his role chairing the Cyber Infrastructure Protection subcommittee: classified Joint Chiefs briefings, he says, are dominated by China, China, China. Against that backdrop, the fact that approximately one million children of Chinese nationals have been born on US soil — in maternity hotels near Los Angeles and on the visa-free island of Guam — and are being raised in China with CCP influence is not merely a policy quirk but a strategic vulnerability. Every one of those children holds a US passport and is constitutionally eligible to run for the presidency. Ogles says no founding father contemplated that scenario. A 2013 CBS clip of a Chinese family who traveled to the US so their daughter Ada Lin could be born American and receive citizenship cements the point viscerally. Peter Schweizer's research on the scale of birth tourism is cited, with estimates ranging from 950,000 to over 1.5 million.

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