Immigration is one thing; weaponized immigration is quite another.
That is according to Peter Schweizer’s new book, “The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon.” Schweizer joined Lisa Boothe on her podcast to explain how Mexico and China have “weaponized” mass migration as a type of civilizational warfare against the US. But it’s not only foreign powers who are doing it.
“For the left in general and for big elements of the Democratic Party, migrants are absolutely a crucial base of their political power,” Schweizer tells Boothe. “The Democrats discovered under Bill Clinton in the 1990s that if you could mint a lot of new citizens, especially if you cast aside criminal background checks, which they’ve done when they’re in power, cast aside literacy requirements, and cast aside the language requirements, you net new voters.”
Democrats discovered that these newly minted citizens will vote 80 – 85% Democratic. “That evens out over time. For future generations, the split is more 50/50. But the point is, this is a huge voting bloc for 20 years, basically for an entire generation,” Schweizer says.
“They needed for votes, but they also need it for political power in other ways,” he explained, noting that the decennial Census counts people, not just citizens. “So, if 20% of your population are illegal migrants, that counts for how many congressional seats you’re going to get… It also determines how much you’re going to get federal block grant funds, for everything from welfare to transportation.”
“California has four more congressional seats because of illegals in that state. To put that in relief,” he said, “that’s more than the congressional delegations of 13 states in our country. So, this is a hugely important basis for political power.”
Schweizer reveals that Mexican government officials openly discuss reclaiming southwestern U.S. territory through demographic change. Mexico operates 53 consulates that are working as political centers, beaming radicalizing messages to new immigrants from Mexico via state-produced “Migrant TV” into the US.
In the book, Schweizer quotes extensively from Mexican government documents and senior politicians and offers Kinnett two examples, first from a report to Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on US migration that says, “We already know that the Mexican population in the United States reaches 39.9 million. We Mexicans are retaking our territory.” The second quote is from a senior Mexican senator, who lives fulltime in the US: “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.”
Meanwhile, Schweizer tells Boothe, China exploits birthright citizenship on an industrial scale, with more than 100,000 Chinese babies born annually in the U.S. since 2013. These children are fully raised in China and may later vote in American elections and influence American politics. He details one Chinese businessman with more than 100 US citizen children born through paid surrogacy by American women, all facilitated by 107 surrogacy businesses in Southern California run by Chinese.
Schweizer also discusses how the Supreme Court may address birthright citizenship in the Spring through a case that challenges President Trump’s executive order against recognizing such citizenship claims from people who were not in the country under legal conditions at the time. He compares the CCP’s organized exploitation to foreign invasion.
“It is intentional and it is weaponized immigration,” Schweizer said. “We need to start realizing it’s great to have a national debate about how immigration affects our economy and affects crime on our streets, but we’ve got to realize people that have come here have brought these political networks with these radical political networks that want to undermine our country, and that is effectively what they are trying to do right now.”
Boothe and Schweizer also discuss what policy actions are needed to secure the border and dismantle these networks.
“With Mexico, it means closing a lot of consulates, kicking a lot of these diplomats out of the country,” Schweizer said. “The other thing we need to do is look at how China is exploiting our immigration system – the birthright citizenship case. This is going to be argued before the Supreme Court based on the evidence in the book that birthright citizenship is not just sort of a random thing that happens. This is an industrial scale model that China is embracing.”
