The administration of Donald Trump should press the case now pending before the US Supreme Court over birthright citizenship and ban Chinese nationals from attending US flight schools.
Those are two recommendations offered by author Peter Schweizer to Lara Trump, host of the Right View program, that come from his brand new, #1 New York Times bestselling book, The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon. The book has topped bestseller lists for each of its first three weeks.
Lara Trump began her interview by asking what inspired Schweizer to write on the subject of “weaponized immigration?”
“We’re having a healthy debate about immigration to this country and its effects on wages and crime on our streets,” Schweizer replied, “but it seemed to me that there are larger issues at play. It’s not the same as immigration we had in the past. What we’re seeing is these foreign powers and actors using migration as a weapon to undermine us politically, basically as acts of subversion.”
Lara Trump noted that Schweizer’s previous work has focused on corruption and asked how that factors into a discussion of foreign migration into the US.
“The corruption part is real. There are financial incentives and motives for people to be fueling this,” Schweizer says. “But there are also political reasons as well” from the many foreign actors he identifies in the book. “It’s not as though they all sit down and conspire together, however — it’s a confluence of interests. They all get something out of it. That’s why they’re all pursuing it.”
The prototype for weaponizing immigration happened more than forty years ago. Schweizer mentions a military report conclusion that, after 9/11 and Pearl Harbor, the most successful attack in history on America was the 1980 Mariel Boatlift, when Cuban Marxist dictator Fidel Castro “seeded fleeing migrants with criminals, intelligence officers, criminal gangs, and psychopaths,” as he tells Lara Trump.
“After 9/11, we destroyed Al Qaeda. After Pearl Harbor, we destroyed the Japanese empire. But after the Mariel Boatlift, what did we do?” Schweizer asked. “Nothing.”
“What do you do? Who do you attack? What military infrastructure can you destroy if you are faced with an immigration weapon? The basic truth is you can’t,” Schweizer added. “So, it’s a very powerful tool because it’s very hard for a country like ours to respond.”
A shocking example from the book is by the Chinese and birthright citizenship.
“What we expose in the book is that China has a program to exploit this on a massive scale, this ‘birth tourism’ industry where Chinese elites will fly to the United States, give birth to a child,” Schweizer says. “The child is born here, so it’s granted U.S. citizenship. They then fly back to China, where the child will be raised by the CCP. But that child is a US citizen. And when they’re 18, they’re going to be able to vote.”
“We were able to show that our federal government doesn’t know how often this happens because we don’t track the nationality of birth parents,” so we have no clue how often this has been done. The Chinese government says that they’ve been doing this for 13 ye369369ars. They say that each and every year, roughly 100,000 Chinese babies have been born in the United States that are being raised in China. That means more than a million ‘US citizens’,” Schweizer added.
Schweizer also revealed that shortly before the book’s debut, he had an hour-long meeting in the Oval Office with President Trump and cabinet secretaries Scott Bessent and Marco Rubio on its findings.
“The meeting was confirmation for what Trump has been saying for years,” Schweizer said, “but we revealed methodologies that our adversaries are using only because they are so creative.” He mentioned the way China has weaponized birthright citizenship and how the government of Mexico has exploited its vast numbers of consulates in the US to engage in both partisan politics within the US and to encourage the kind of violent protest seen in American cities such as Minneapolis and Los Angeles in response to ICE agents arresting illegal aliens.
Lara Trump asked about domestic collaborators with this weaponization.
The Obama administration really flung the gates wide open,” Schweizer replied. “The instructions from the Obama administration to people in customs and border patrol was, essentially, ‘if somebody comes and they are pregnant, do not ask them whether they are having the child in the US, just let them through’,” Schweizer explained. “What happens is they show up on a tourist visa.”
The second thing [Obama] did was he created a ten-year-long visa program for China, which allowed Chinese nationals to speed through customs on subsequent visits with a minimum of scrutiny. “They encouraged it to happen,” Schweizer said. “There’s a whole section in the book on why Democrats need mass migration. It’s key for them in terms of their voter base, and they also need it for how we count the Census.”
“In the case of California, they have about 4 more congressional districts than they ordinarily would because of illegal aliens present in the state,” Schweizer said. “Those four seats are larger than the congressional delegations of 13 other states, so it’s a massive political win for them. That’s why they’re fighting so hard to prevent these deportations.”
Finally, Lara Trump asked what immediate steps could be taken to stem the problem now?
“First, continue to press the Supreme Court case on birthright citizenship,” Schweizer said. He then closed by raising an undiscussed issue that raises alarm bells because of the terrorist attacks on 9/11 using hijacked airplanes.
“Private flight schools are training thousands of Chinese pilots every year,” Schweizer said, noting many of these trained pilots then go back to China for additional specialized training to become military pilots for the CCP. “We banned people from terror-supporting states from taking flight school classes in the US. We should extend that ban to China.”
