A House oversight committee is looking into birth tourism. This is an activity indulged in by foreign-resident fathers who are not American citizens. Exploiting lax U.S. laws, they arrange for children of theirs to be born in the United States so that the kids will have U.S. citizenship in their hip pockets when they become old enough to do things for dad. Many of these fathers are Chinese nationals who live in China.
They are catered to by U.S. doctors like Wladimir Lorentz, who is refusing to give Congress any information about his medical services (Newsweek, September 2, 2026).
Lawmakers on the House Oversight Committee’s Task Force on Defending Constitutional Rights and Exposing Institutional Abuses subpoenaed Dr. Wladimir Lorentz, the founder of Miami Medical Concierge Services, after he declined earlier requests to testify about his company’s role in arranging births for foreign nationals.
Lorentz invoked the Fifth Amendment to every question, citing a pending federal investigation into his business, also known as “Have My Baby in Miami.”…
[Jeffrey Sloman, counsel for Lorentz, said] that Lorentz and the other board‑certified physicians at Miami Medical Concierge Services provide legitimate concierge medical care, including to patients who travel from abroad, and will continue cooperating with federal authorities.
He added that the team is “confident that, in the end, they will be cleared of any wrongdoing,” but declined to discuss the scope or status of the investigation, citing respect for the process.
One must respect the process.
Some of the unanswered questions came from Texas Republican Brandon Gill. Gill “cited archived versions of the company’s website, which advertised ‘over 2,000 deliveries of international patients,’ and asked Lorentz whether he had assisted clients connected to foreign governments or criminal organizations.’ ”
Another doctor, Steven Camarota of the Center for Immigration Studies, testified readily enough. Estimates of 200,000 to 300,000 birth-tourist babies born in the United States over the past decade are probably too low, Camarota says. These estimates rely on data from birth certificates and the census.
He emphasized that official birth certificate addresses often mask the true scope of the practice because many birth tourism operators house clients in U.S. facilities and use those addresses to receive paperwork before the mothers depart.
“Birth tourists have a very strong incentive to stay long enough to ensure that the whole reason they came has been accomplished,” he said.
Camarota warned that the practice raises concerns about fraud, assimilation, and national security. Children born through birth tourism grow up abroad, he noted, yet retain unrestricted access to the United States as citizens. Once adults, they can sponsor their parents for green cards, potentially rewarding individuals who misrepresented their intentions to obtain visas.
If a birth-tourism doctor has been complicit in fraud, sounds like a real reason to fear incriminating himself by answering congressional questions about what he’s been up to. Anyway, the Fifth Amendment doesn’t seem to provide for refusal to testify on the grounds of fear of insufficiently respecting the process. And how likely is it, really, that Dr. Wladimir Lorentz would incur any penalty for insufficient process respect as supposedly manifested by answering questions about his doings as a birth-tourism practitioner? Insufficient process respect would not be the charge.
Also see:
StoptheCCP.org: “ ‘That’ll be 200 surrogate babies, please’ ”
“Red China’s elite loom large in the customer base.”
