Laura Ingraham: “Chinese birth tourism recipients in the United States. They're Chinese citizens. That means they can run for office. They get all of our benefits, get to go to our, schools, scholarships. This has got to stop.”
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From the July 2, 2026, edition of Fox News' America's Newsroom
LAURA INGRAHAM (GUEST): I think one of the things that we have to deal with China, and the president, I hope he's watching, as he always does, your show. Maybe it's time to start reducing Chinese visas into the United States. They're overwhelmingly the country now that abuses this. There's an estimate from from hill leaders that it's about between 750,000 and 1.5 million Chinese birth tourism recipients in the United States. They're Chinese citizens. That means they can run for office. They get all of our benefits, get to go to our, schools, scholarships. This has got to stop, and this has got to be a crackdown across the board. This is not rare as, thank you, The Hill wrote yesterday. This is rare? 26,000. That's a —
BILL HEMMER (CO-HOST): It's big business.
INGRAHAM: That's a small estimate of the number of Chinese every year coming in, 26,000. The total number is probably about 3.5 million people now who've benefited from this. It is a complete scam, and it's a big business in foreign countries, and it's just got to stop. Period.
DANA PERINO (CO-HOST): It looks to me like they're going to crack down on it. Like, they'll figure that out.
INGRAHAM: They better.