A California surrogate says she was deceived into carrying a child for a Chinese billionaire who has fathered more than 100 children through American surrogates, all of whom receive automatic U.S. citizenship at birth.
The woman, identified only as “Judy” to protect her identity, told CBS News in an investigation aired Sunday that she signed with a surrogacy agency called Patriot Conceptions believing she was helping a single father expand his family. Leaked documents obtained by CBS News instead named the intended father as Xu Bo, founder of the Chinese gaming company Duoyi Network.
“I feel blindsided. I feel misled,” Judy told CBS News.
Judy said she agreed to carry the child for $120,000. When she asked the agency how many other surrogates the same father had hired, she says she was told the number was close to two dozen. She said she repeatedly tried to meet the intended father in person and never could.
CBS News correspondent Katrina Kaufman showed Judy a photograph Xu had posted on Chinese social media appearing to show more than 100 children seated in rows.
“It feels like he’s, like, creating an army. That’s crazy,” Judy said.
Xu disputes the scale of the operation. A former partner claimed in a custody dispute that he may have fathered as many as 300 children, according to CBS News. Xu himself has said he has custody of 12 children born through U.S. surrogacy. But after a Wall Street Journal investigation published in December 2025, Duoyi reportedly acknowledged that years of American surrogacy arrangements had produced “only a little over 100” children, even while rejecting the higher figure.
In a statement issued in Chinese, Xu said he “believes in the philosophy that more children bring more blessings” and that he wants his actions to “benefit the long-term development of the Chinese nation.”
A loophole lawmakers are already targeting
This case lands squarely inside a fight already underway in Washington. The Trump administration has been pushing to end birthright citizenship, the constitutional guarantee that grants automatic citizenship to nearly anyone born on U.S. soil, regardless of the parents’ nationality or immigration status.
In February, Sens. Tom Cotton (R-AR) and Rick Scott (R-FL) sent a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi demanding an investigation into Chinese-run surrogacy agencies operating in the United States. Their letter cited at least 107 such companies operating in California alone.
Breitbart News Senior Contributor Peter Schweizer has written about these surrogacy schemes in his book “The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon,” calling them the “tip of a very large iceberg.”
Judy’s account, and the scale of Xu’s reported surrogacy operation, are likely to sharpen the argument that birthright citizenship as currently applied invites exploitation by wealthy foreign nationals with no interest in American civic life beyond the passport it hands their children.
