In his book The Invisible Coup, GAI President Peter Schweizer argues that immigration isn’t just a policy fight or a humanitarian debate; it’s a weapon.
Schweizer recently spoke with Greg Kelly about foreign adversaries — including China and Mexico — along with groups he identifies as the Muslim Brotherhood, who have learned how to use America’s openness against it.
In his telling, the goal isn’t simply entry. It’s influence.
Schweizer says these forces have built political networks designed to subvert the United States from the inside, and they’ve been aided by progressive leaders who see an electoral upside in mass migration.
“They’ve created political networks that are designed to subvert America,” Schweizer said. “That’s not just me saying that — all of these people say it in their own words. And they’ve been enabled by progressives and leaders in the Democratic Party who see the political advantage of mass migration, who, again, I quote them openly, are
saying that we need mass migration for their own political survival.”
Schweizer points to a government study he says ranked the 1980 Mariel boatlift as the third most effective “attack” on America, behind only 9/11 and Pearl Harbor.
“There was a government panel that looked at the most effective attacks on the United States in American history,” Schweizer added. “Number one was 911. Number two was Pearl Harbor. Number three was the
Mariel boatlift. In 1980, Fidel Castro sent 125,000 Cubans, including a lot of criminals, mentally ill people, and intelligence agents, on a mass exodus into the United States.”
His argument is that the “effectiveness” came from a particular kind of asymmetry: there was no conventional military response available, because the pressure was political and social, not battlefield.
From there, he pivots to the domestic side of the story.
Schweizer alleges Democratic administrations weakened citizenship requirements as part of a broader project to expand the voter pool, and he says internal White House communications back up that intent.
“It gave them an opportunity to mint new voters. Because, of course, when Barack Obama was president, when Bill Clinton was president — same thing with Joe Biden. What did they do? They gutted the citizenship rules. They tossed aside hundreds of thousands of criminal background checks. They got rid of the competency requirements. They eliminated language requirements because they wanted to mint new voters,” Schweizer said.
Schweizer repeatedly returns to the same frame: immigration as strategy — not chaos.
Schweizer’s throughline is that foreign powers exploit the system, domestic elites rationalize it, and the result is a slow-motion transformation of American society and politics that can’t be stopped with traditional tools.
In his view, that’s why it’s an “invisible coup.”
Not tanks in the streets.
Paperwork, pipelines, and power — quietly rerouting the country.
Watch the clip above.
