Minnesota’s Democratic Gov. Tim Walz this week publicly compared the crackdown on illegal immigrants in Minneapolis to Anne Frank and the Holocaust. Morning Sunrise host David Brody asks author Peter Schweizer, “Is he out of his mind?”
Schweizer is the author of the brand new, #1 bestseller The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon. He responds by drawing a parallel to the civil rights era. But not in a way that gives Walz any credit.
“To me, it’s reminiscent of something from history. You have a governor who is demagoguing, a governor who says, ‘I don’t like this federal law involving immigration, so I’m going to take it upon myself to encourage people to harass and disrupt federal authorities who are trying to carry out that law,’” Schweizer says.
“The last time I saw that in American history was Mississippi and Alabama in the 1950s and 1960s. This, I think, is outrageous,” Schweizer tells Brody.
Minneapolis has been the site of sustained, violent protest following the deaths of two agitators who tried to block immigration authorities from conducting immigration raids and were shot by officers.
“There’s a simple way that these lives could have been prevented from being taken,” Schweizer says. “And that’s simply to have local law enforcement say, ‘You can protest but you cannot harass, you cannot disrupt, what federal law enforcement is doing.’”
Show host Dr. Gina Loudon compliments Schweizer for the new book, calling it “really critical” for the present moment. “Everyone needs to read this book,” she says. Loudon focuses on one story from the book about Mexico and what Mexican politicians themselves refer to as the “Reconquista” of large parts of the US through immigration.
“In researching the book, this is one of the things that shocked me because I didn’t expect to find it. But the Mexican government views mass migration not just as kind of a safety valve. They actually view it as a weapon to deploy against the United States,” Schweizer says.
He shares two quotes from the book, taken directly from Mexican politicians. “This is from a government report in December of 2024, written by one of President Sheinbaum’s top aides. ‘We already know that the Mexican population in the United States reaches 39.9 million. We Mexicans are reclaiming our territory.’ He’s referring, of course, to the territories Mexico lost in the 19th Century because they sold them to the United States” after the Mexican American War, Schweizer explains.
He goes on: “This is a quote from one of the most powerful senators in Mexico, who sits on the national defense committee. He’s also a member of the ruling Morena party. ‘Mexicans are in our territories — California, Nevada, Texas, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, Kansas, Oklahoma, Colorado and Wyoming. We are going to take back the territory that was stolen from us.’”
“This is just not an idle threat,” he says. “They actually have an infrastructure in the United States that is engaged in provoking law enforcement and encouraging these violent anti-ICE protests. They are also involved in our electoral politics.” He reveals that this activity is being coordinated by Mexican consulate offices in the US. For comparison, the United Kingdom maintains six consulates across the US. China has seven. Mexico, by contrast, has a staggering 53 consulate offices across the country.
“And they are hotbeds of anti-Trump activism. So, we need to look at shutting down some of these consulates,” Schweizer believes.
The Invisible Coup debuted this week as the #1 New York Times bestseller. The book is available everywhere and shows how mass illegal immigration has been deliberately weaponized by American elites, foreign powers, and transnational networks, particularly Communist China, Mexico, and the Muslim Brotherhood.
