During a recent conversation, GAI President and best-selling author Peter Schweizer described what he characterizes as “weaponized immigration” involving China and Mexico, arguing that legal pathways and policy gaps are being leveraged to expand influence inside the United States.
Including China’s birth tourism industry.
Schweizer told host Mark Halperin that the practice operates at an industrial scale, producing roughly 100,000 U.S. citizens each year who are born in America but raised in China. He argued that more than one million American citizens are currently being raised there as a result.
“We’re talking a million plus. And it begs the question, when you look at this as a practice, why would a Chinese elite member want that? I mean, if you look at what they say in their own state media in China, some of them will say, well, it’s a great insurance policy if something goes wrong with the Chinese Communist Party,” Schweizer said.
Schweizer continued: “That’s one way you can look at it. But how the Chinese government has looked at this issue is very alarming. If you read strategic thinkers in the Chinese military, they will argue, and this is what we quote extensively in the book, that the United States is this exceptional country we need to compete with. They have a country that was created by immigrants. We don’t have that. But they say we do have a tool in our toolbox, and that is birthright citizenship. We can exploit this.”
Schweizer also raised potential military implications, stating that approximately 2,500 Chinese pilots train in the United States annually before later serving in forces that could eventually face American pilots in combat.
The conversation then shifted to Mexico. Schweizer highlighted Mexico’s network of 53 consulates in the United States, arguing they play a political role. He also referenced Mexican government officials living in the U.S. while representing Mexican interests in their parliament.
Schweizer further cited what he described as a government-run outlet, Migrant TV, which he said broadcasts anti-Trump messaging.
Across the appearance, Schweizer framed new book, The Invisible Coup, as a warning about long-term geopolitical competition, arguing that immigration policy, citizenship rules, and diaspora infrastructure can function as tools of state power, and that the United States has underestimated the strategic implications.
Watch the clip above.
