Dr. Wladimir Lorentz sat before the House Oversight Committee on September 1 and said nothing. Not because he had nothing to say. Because his lawyers told him not to.
Lorentz is the founder and chief medical officer of Have My Baby in Miami, a company that markets itself as a concierge service for foreign nationals who want to deliver their babies on U.S. soil.
He was subpoenaed to appear before the Task Force on Defending Constitutional Rights and Exposing Institutional Abuses, chaired by Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX).
He'd already declined a voluntary appearance. The reason: a pending federal criminal investigation out of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida.
“I Will Respectfully Decline”
Lorentz opened with a short prepared statement. Then he invoked the Fifth Amendment on every question that followed.
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Rep. Brandon Gill: “Is it true that your business ‘Have My Baby in Miami' facilitated the entry of foreign nationals seeking to come to the United States to give birth, and obtain birthright citizenship for their children?”
Dr. Lorentz: “I invoke my…
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“On the advice of counsel, I will respectfully decline to answer any questions touching the subject matter of a pending federal investigation on the grounds that a truthful answer may tend to incriminate me,” Lorentz said.
He added a disclaimer.
“Nothing in my appearance here today and nothing in my declining to answer questions should be understood as a concession on the merits of the ongoing investigation,” he said.
Gill pressed anyway.
He asked whether Lorentz's company marketed to and facilitated foreign nationals coming to the U.S. specifically to give birth for citizenship.
He asked how many such deliveries the company had handled.
He asked whether an archived version of the company's website belonged to Lorentz, and why the site got taken down after Gill's task force sent letters back in May.
Then Gill asked the question that should turn heads: Did Lorentz's clients include Chinese Communist Party members? Members of groups like MS-13 or Tren de Aragua?
Lorentz declined every time. Gill excused him from the panel.
His attorney later said the Fifth Amendment invocation is a constitutional right, not an admission of guilt. Lorentz hasn't been charged with anything.
A Business Built on “Complete Logistical Support”
Before the site came down, Have My Baby in Miami advertised itself openly.
The marketing promised “complete logistical support,” housing help, insurance guidance, and claimed more than 2,000 deliveries for international patients.
Gill didn't mince words when he announced the probe back in May.
“Have My Baby in Miami — that's the name of an actual company that is facilitating birth tourism into the United States, where foreigners come in on visas, have children, then leave so that their children can remain American citizens,” Gill said.
“That's a problem. The American people are sick of it, and my task force on the House Oversight Committee is going after these companies.”
The May letters didn't just target Lorentz. They went out to birth tourism operations in Texas and California too, requesting marketing materials, service agreements, client counts, and fee schedules.
Not an Isolated Case
Have My Baby in Miami didn't invent this industry. Breitbart Senior Contributor Peter Schweizer's book “The Invisible Coup” documented more than 100 Chinese-owned birth tourism agencies operating in California alone.
Back in 2019, the Justice Department broke up a birth tourism scheme run by Chinese nationals across California.
Roughly 8,500 U.S.-born children got citizenship after their parents entered on tourist visas for the sole purpose of delivering here.
Concentrations of the practice have shown up among Turkish nationals in New York, Russian nationals in Florida, and Middle Eastern nationals in Illinois.
Giving birth in the U.S. isn't illegal. Nobody disputes that.
But misrepresenting your reason for entering the country on a tourist visa is visa fraud, and that's the legal hook investigators are using.
Lorentz walked out of that hearing room without answering a single substantive question. The federal investigation into his company continues. And Gill's task force says it's not done sending letters.
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