Rep. Tom Tiffany, R-WI, has turned his attention to Chinese “birth tourism,” a niche industry where pregnant women strategically fly to U.S. territories like the Northern Mariana Islands to give birth and secure American citizenship for their newborns. Apparently, there’s a whole industry of pregnant Chinese women jetting into U.S. territories like the Northern Mariana Islands just in time to drop anchor babies and collect that shiny American passport. Tiffany took this hot topic to a recent House Judiciary subcommittee hearing, where he unloaded a steaming pile of indignation.

Since 2009, thanks to an Obama-era parole program, Chinese passport holders can skip the visa line and waltz into the Marianas. And surprise, they’re doing just that. Tiffany didn’t waste time asking USCIS director Ur Jaddou if this whole operation was peachy—because, let’s be real, he already knew the answer. “There are more babies born from birth tourism than from locals,” he exclaimed. Translation: The locals are outnumbered, and Tiffany’s not having it.

This isn’t his first rodeo. He and fellow Wisconsin Republican Glenn Grothman have been banging this drum since the Trump days, demanding the “birth tourism” crackdown. Back then, the Pacific Island Times painted a vivid picture of pregnant Chinese women swarming Saipan like it’s a baby shower buffet. The goal? Birthright citizenship, baby. They’re in, they’re out, and their newborns are card-carrying Americans.

Things got so ridiculous that a Hong Kong airline was pregnancy-testing passengers heading to Saipan. Yep, pee sticks at check-in. That brilliant idea backfired when customers (shockingly) complained. Meanwhile, Trump’s Justice Department was busy busting birth tourism rings in California, where operators were practically running Airbnb for expectant Chinese mothers. Charges ranged from immigration fraud to international money laundering. You know, the usual.

Fast forward to the Biden border free-for-all:  last year alone, a whopping 176,000 Chinese nationals waltzed into the country illegally. Coincidence? Yeah, right. Birth tourism has become a thriving international industry. But does it really matter? Some might argue that U.S. citizenship no longer holds the same value. Perhaps it’s time we begin to treat it like the exclusive membership it is meant to be and take steps to protect the privileges and responsibilities that come with it.