Two Chinese nationals have been arrested and charged with acting as unregistered agents of the Chinese Communist Party in a federal case alleging espionage targeting U.S. military personnel and naval facilities. The Justice Department unsealed the complaint earlier this month, revealing an extensive counterintelligence investigation led by the FBI and NCIS.
Rep. Tom Tiffany, a Republican from Wisconsin, is sounding the alarm on a little-known U.S. citizenship loophole that allows Chinese nationals to enter the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) without a visa. Tiffany has called on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to address what he describes as a glaring vulnerability that is enabling “birth tourism” and undermining national security.
