China birth tourism: 1.5M babies
China supercharged birth tourism, scamming American citizenship for up to 1.5 million babies by paying surrogates $100K–$200K to give birth on U.S. soil.
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SCOTUS Birthright Citizenship Ruling, Trump's Crypto Payday, AI Fails at Ford | PBD Podcast #826
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Jul 1, 2026
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Supreme Court Birthright Citizenship Ruling: The SCOTUS Partisan Pattern
At 13:40 · chapter starts 11:10
This is the episode's anchor segment. Patrick Bet-David walks through every major Supreme Court case from Amy Coney Barrett's confirmation forward, demonstrating that not once have Democratic justices crossed party lines — while Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett have repeatedly ruled against Trump on election, executive power, and policy cases. [1] — Patrick Bet-David "Democratic Supreme Court justices have never voted in Trump's favor across dozens of major rulings, while conservative justices have sided …" 01:00 The panel interprets this as ideological rigidity on the left versus principled independence on the right. Tom Ellsworth delivers his headline thesis: Democratic justices aren't interpreting the Constitution, they're legislating from the bench — because they fundamentally reject the Constitution's premises. Jeff Snyder adds that the left projects its own desires onto conservative appointees, having assumed they'd be rubber stamps. The deeper concern the panel raises is existential: when the court flips 6-3 in Democrats' favor, and it will, there will be no counter-vote, no dissent, no brake on the ideological agenda. Brandon Ellsworth notes Trump would likely have been jailed or kept off the ballot without his three appointments. The China birth tourism angle adds a geopolitical dimension: Patrick reads a New York Post report about China paying surrogates $100K–$200K to birth American citizens as a 60-year infiltration strategy. [2] — Patrick Bet-David "China paid surrogates $100K–$200K to give birth on U.S. soil, creating Chinese-American citizens who are taken back to China, indoctrinated…" 13:40
China's Birth Tourism Scam: 1.5 Million Babies
China paid surrogates $100K–$200K to give birth on U.S. soil, creating Chinese-American citizens who are taken back to China, indoctrinated by the CCP, and potentially sent back decades later to influence American politics. It's not immigration — it's a multi-generational infiltration strategy.
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