Discussing the continuing Minneapolis protests, author and investigative journalist Peter Schweizer said he is concerned about “groups of hardcore activists that don’t just want to protest and wave signs, but who want actual want conflict and violence.”
Schweizer just published the current #1 New York Times bestseller, called The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon. The book went to press too late to include the Minneapolis riots, but its introduction references the earliest riots against President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement policies, which occurred in Los Angeles.
Those protests, he noted in the book’s introduction, had the distinct involvement of the Mexican government.
Schweizer joined Emily Jashinsky on her YouTube show, After Party, Monday night.
After she played a video clip of rioters in Minneapolis being arrested by police this weekend, Schweizer noted that while there are regular Americans who go to these protests and who oppose what ICE is doing in Minneapolis, he is more concerned about “groups of hardcore activists that don’t just want to protest and wave signs, but who want actual want conflict and violence.”
The LA protests made the book’s introduction, which Jashinsky reads from:
“A haze of smoke drifted across the street, where masses of protesters inciting violence waved foreign flags in the breeze. This was not a battle scene from a distant war, but Alameda Street in downtown Los Angeles, and the defiant crowd waving Mexican, Salvadoran, and Palestinian flags was confronting a line of local and federal law enforcement officers. Similar scenes had been playing out across the United States, from Texas to New York, in recent months, as organized activist groups confronted not just the flesh-and-blood US officers called in to enforce immigration law, but, in fact, the American system of law and order itself, under foreign colors, for personal political purposes.
On the surface, these scenes painted a jarring picture of the consequences of an open-border policy. However, a deeper look exposes something far more alarming: the weaponization of mass migration as a tool of subversion against the United States by foreign governments and organizations, as well as their domestic allies. As we will see, the LA and other violent protests were encouraged by foreign governments.” ~introduction to The Invisible Coup.
Jashinsky asked whether there is any plan from the government to stop the political activities of Mexican government officials who are encouraging these protests.
“About a week before the book came out, I had a 55-minute meeting with the President in the Oval Office” that also included several Cabinet members, Schweizer told Jashinsky. “We briefed him on the issues in the book, the political networks that the Mexican government has in the US, some of their activities, also their involvement in partisan American politics, which they’re not supposed to be doing as diplomats. So, I anticipate we’re going to start seeing some movement there.”
Schweizer added that he has also been asked to testify on the book’s findings before two US Senate committees in March.
“So, my hope is we’re going to see some action here. The good news is, with the Mexican consulates, you can simply shut them down and say those diplomats are persona non grata. I think that’s long overdue.”
Jashinsky raises the book’s findings that Mexico actively tries to turn its own migrants into activists, which Schweizer documents in the book. “I was shocked to read your reporting on how Mexico is sending textbooks into American schools,” Jashinsky says.
The textbooks from the Mexican government, one million per year, are offered as a way to help Spanish-speaking children learn history for students from LA and Las Vegas all the way to Orlando, Florida.
“When you look at these textbooks, they’re really horrible in their presentation of history and the reality of US-Mexican relations. They’re horrible in their presentation of American history, even worse than the ‘woke’ textbooks that people complain about,” Schweizer said.
That is because, as Schweizer reveals in the book, the purpose of those books is to instill loyalty to Mexico in those children. “So, there is a national agenda for the benefit of Mexico – certainly not for the benefit of the United States,” Schweizer said.
Jashinsky asks if the Mexican end goal is about remittances or deeper ideology.
“They get about $60 billion in remittances from Mexicans living in the US, but a lot of things suggest that they have other aims,” Schweizer replied. “The Mexican government funds something called Migrante TV, a slick news service for migrants living in the US. And it’s the worst kind of propaganda that you can imagine. It’s not designed to inform; it’s designed to rile up.”
Then, there is Mexico’s vast network of 53 consulates. For comparison, China maintains 6 consulates in the US; the United Kingdom has 7.
“And these elected officials criticize and attack Mexican immigrants who want to assimilate into the United States. My parents were immigrants from Europe, and I think we all believe we should have some level of immigration and that we should want immigrants to assimilate, adopt American values, and learn the language,” Schweizer said.
“If you do that, as a Mexican migrant, you are going to be viciously attacked by this political network,” he added. In the book, Schweizer quotes one senior Mexican government official saying that anyone who does assimilate is “a traitor.”
Listen to the entire interview above.
