Dr. Wladimir Lorentz built a business called "Have My Baby in Miami." The service facilitated over 2,000 deliveries for foreign nationals on American soil — meaning 2,000-plus children who are now, on paper, United States citizens.
On Monday, the House Oversight Task Force sat Dr. Lorentz down and asked him about potential connections between his clients and the Chinese Communist Party. His answer, to that question and every other one: "I decline to answer on the grounds that a truthful answer might incriminate me."
Every. Single. Question.
Rep. Brandon Gill, who leads the task force titled "Protecting American Citizenship: Confronting Birth Tourism," asked Lorentz directly: "Is it your intention to answer any question put to you today with an assertion of your Fifth Amendment right?"
The answer was yes. That was the only honest thing Lorentz communicated all day.
The committee's inquiry didn't just focus on CCP-connected families. The task force examined whether Lorentz's operation had facilitated births for individuals tied to narco-terrorist organizations, including Tren de Aragua and MS-13. The business model was straightforward: fly into Miami, deliver a baby on U.S. soil, fly home with an American citizen in the car seat.
The Fourteenth Amendment, written to guarantee citizenship to freed slaves and their children, is now the inventory system for a guy running a delivery service out of South Florida.
Lorentz's website — the one that presumably advertised the 2,000-plus successful deliveries — has since been scrubbed from the internet. Which is a fascinating move for someone who supposedly has nothing to hide behind the Fifth Amendment. You don't delete your storefront unless the storefront is evidence.
The birth tourism industry isn't limited to Miami. Mission Regional Medical Center in South Texas was confirmed running billboard advertisements in July promoting birth packages to foreign nationals near the U.S.-Mexico border. The infrastructure exists across state lines, and the customer base apparently includes hostile foreign governments.
Some "legal scholars" will point out that the Fifth Amendment exists to protect the innocent, not just the guilty. Sure. And a man who facilitated 2,000 births for foreign nationals — potentially including CCP operatives and cartel-linked families — could absolutely be invoking that right out of an abundance of caution rather than abject terror at what discovery would reveal.
But innocent people don't usually scrub their websites overnight.
The broader pattern here is worth noting. Birth tourism exploits a constitutional provision that was never designed for commercial application. It converts American citizenship into a product, sold to the highest bidder, with zero vetting of the buyer. When the buyers include families connected to the CCP or transnational criminal organizations, the product isn't just citizenship. It's access.
Two thousand deliveries. A scrubbed website. The Fifth Amendment on infinite loop. And a task force that now has to figure out how many of those 2,000 American passports are sitting in filing cabinets in Beijing.
The website is gone. The babies are citizens. The questions remain unanswered.