America is the world’s fertility marketplace, and everyone knows it. That’s why wealthy foreign nationals come here, hire American women to carry their babies, and secure US citizenship for those children at birth. They do it inside a system with no guardrails. And when it blows up, everyone acts surprised.
This is happening all over the United States, but this story we’re about to share with you is one of the most disturbing. It’s a tale about a wealthy California family living in a mysterious mansion full of kids. But even bigger than that, this is a story about commercial surrogacy, foreign money, and birthright citizenship colliding in the most predictable and horrifying way imaginable.
President Trump already signed an executive order targeting automatic birthright citizenship. That fight is heading straight for the Supreme Court. And stories like this are exactly why.
Now let’s walk through what actually happened in this creepy mansion.
But before we get into the specifics, we need to understand the scale of what’s happening.
The New Yorker:
In the past decade, a surge of wealthy foreigners—lured by this permissive atmosphere, and by blue-chip medical care—have enlisted American women as surrogates.
The New Yorker calls it a “permissive atmosphere.” That’s the polite and very highbrow way to say “wide open.” America has elite medical care and barely any federal rules around all this stuff. And when you put those two together, obviously people will take advantage. And we’re not just talking about “sweet couples” who want a baby, but big-time global money and baby farming.
The next part is even more important, because it exposes how wide open this entire industry is.
The New Yorker goes on:
But no federal laws govern the practice in the United States. Anyone can start a surrogacy agency; unlike opening a hair salon, or a day care, no qualifications are needed for the intimate, unpredictable work of bringing strangers together to create a new life.