In an interview on Glenn Beck’s program that focused on the role of the Cubans and the Mexican government in creating The Invisible Coup, author Peter Schweizer explains how the first shot was fired in 1980 when Cuban dictator Fidel Castro created “the Attila Plan,” an intentional, well-planned attack on American sovereignty that is today known as the “Mariel boatlift.”
The Mariel boatlift has since been regarded as the third most damaging foreign attack in US history, after Pearl Harbor and 9/11.
In his new book, The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon, Schweizer writes, “It would become the first successful deployment of a weapon of mass migration against the United States… We now know what seemed like a chaotic and spontaneous exodus of people in small boats from Cuba to Florida became an intentional, well-planned attack.”
That plan, hatched by “Sector 5” of Cuba’s intelligence agency, would become the prototype for using immigration as a weapon against the US in the following years, right up until today, Schweizer tells Beck.
Since then, migration patterns became invasions across the US Southern Border, which became porous during the presidency of Joe Biden. Until President Trump closed the border in early 2025, in involved illegal immigrants coming from Mexico, Central American countries, and Venezuela, often including drug smuggling as well as human trafficking.
Schweizer tells Beck about the activities, actions, and beliefs of the Mexican government, which has encouraged mass illegal immigration to the US for years. For Mexico, under the control of the leftist Morena Party, it is not simply about the money Mexicans in the US send home, known as remittances. It is about attempting to reclaim large portions of the United States that they claim were “stolen” from Mexico in 1848.
Schweizer reads from a Mexican government report, prepared in December 2024 for its current president, Claudia Sheinbaum, by one of her top aides. That report said: “We already know that the Mexican population in the United States reaches 39.9 million. We Mexicans are reclaiming our territory.”
Schweizer’s book documents the words of a powerful Mexican senator who sits on the Mexican national defense committee, the most powerful committee in that country’s Senate. “We Mexicans are in our territories of California, Nevada, Texas, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, Kansas, Oklahoma, Colorado, and Wyoming. We’re going to take back the territory that was stolen from us.”
Much of this activity is accomplished through Mexico’s consulates in the US. It is common for foreign countries to maintain a few consulates across the US to aid their citizens who live and or work in the US. China has six of them. The United Kingdom has seven. Mexico has 53 consulates around the United States.
Schweizer tells Beck the Mexican government has “created a network and infrastructure inside the US and this infrastructure includes Mexican government officials inside the US who are organizing violent protests like those that hit Los Angeles and those in Minneapolis. They are actively participating in our politics, working to elect Democrats who are sympathetic to them on immigration and working to defeat President Trump through the Mexican consulates.”
Beck responds, “You’re so clear about who’s involved. Why don’t we know about any of this until now?”
Schweizer replies that “Mexico has a reputation for being a sleepy, corrupt government and people don’t take them seriously. I think we should.” He also believes the Mexican government has been effective at masking what they are really doing.
But not to their home audience. Schweizer shares a 2023 quote out of his book from the head of Mexico’s news agency, their equivalent to the Associated Press. He said, “We are quietly carrying out the reconquest of our territories in the US taken from us in 1848. The reconquest of the Aztec territory is silent and the day that the gringos realize this, their diabolical fundamentalism will become macabre.”
Schweizer names in the book those Mexican government officials “who were at the center of the LA riots last year and who are manipulating our politics,” he tells Beck.
A case in point is Alejandro Robles, who is a member of Mexico’s parliament and sits on the ruling committee for the Morena political party. Robles lives fulltime in California outside of LA, and Schweizer quotes him describing his purpose in the United States. “Our mission is to organize the militancy inside the United States.” Robles has met with several leftwing groups linked to violence at the LA protests last year, including “The People’s Forum,” which is known to have ties to Antifa.
Schweizer quotes Robles again, as saying the people who are working with him are “in the front line of the battle of civil resistance in the US” and tells Beck Robles is “particularly angered at immigrants from Latin America who come to the United states and adopt American values.” Robles calls them “traitors to Mexico” and says that Sheinbaum agrees with him.
President Sheinbaum commissioned the writing of a song, which she orders played at most Morena Party events. “The Migrant’s Hymn” contains lyrics are about how the migrants to the US don’t just go there to work “but to expand the flag of Mexico to include the United States.”
Beck reads a translation of one part: “And though my birth certificate says American, I am pure Mexican. We change places but not flags. I carry green, white, and red in my veins. Like the eagle we fly without borders. We break through the fence that separates lands.”
Another song popular at Mexican government events is called “Somos Más Americanos,” [“We are more American”] embraced in recent years by Mexico’s leaders. This some echoes the “Reconquista” [“re-conquest”] theme. Its lyrics describe how states from California to Texas, and from Arizona to Wyoming, were stolen from Mexico. “The land was free until the gringos arrived,” goes one lyric. The refrain ends: “We are more American than all of the gringos.” And the song’s chorus echoes: “Indians from two continents mixed with Spanish, We are more American than the son of an Anglo-Saxon.”
“When you see Mexican flags waved at anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles, Schweizer says, that’s not an accident.”
