Peter Schweizer of the Government Accountability Institute recently laid out the central findings of his book The Invisible Coup — and the picture he painted was not one of routine diplomacy.
Mexico maintains 53 consulates across the United States. Schweizer put that figure in perspective: Arizona alone hosts four, while Great Britain operates six consulates nationwide and China seven.
“There are 53 Mexican consulates in the United States,” he said. “So this is a massive number.”
According to Schweizer, those posts are not confining themselves to passports and paperwork. He says they are organizing anti-Trump protest rallies and anti-ICE demonstrations, and coordinating directly with Democratic Party operatives.
He pointed to a May 2024 meeting at Mexico’s Oklahoma City consulate, held during a presidential election year, where consular officials flew in from Mexico City and gathered with colleagues from Los Angeles to Orlando.
What did they discuss?
“They met with Democratic Party political organizers, and the conversation was about how they could turn states from red to blue,” Schweizer said. “And they bragged about how they turned California from red to blue, Arizona from red to blue. And they wanted to do more of that.”
Schweizer is emphatic about his sourcing.
“All of this, by the way, comes from a transcript of that meeting that we obtained from the Mexican media,” he said. “So this is not me alleging this—this is what they are doing.”
His bottom line: “I don’t think anybody would defend the fact that foreign diplomats are meddling in American politics.”
The Boast in the Open
Schweizer’s case rests in part on how openly Mexican officials describe their own activities. He cited Alejandro Robledo, a member of the Mexican parliament who lives in the United States and, in Schweizer’s account, bragged that in 2025 he was “crossing the United States, organizing the militancy against Donald Trump”—in Robledo’s own words.
He connected this to a broader doctrine he had once dismissed. “There’s this concept, Reconquista. I always thought it was like a kind of a ridiculous conspiracy theory,” Schweizer said. “Except for the fact that Mexico’s leaders talk about it all the time.”
The aim, as he described it, is re-exerting sovereignty over territory Mexico lost in the 19th-century U.S.-Mexican War. And the people discussing it, he stressed, are not fringe figures: “These are the most powerful senators in Mexico. These are top aides to President Sheinbaum. This is former president Lopez Obrador.”
One mechanism, Schweizer said, is structural: Mexico has elected senators and members of parliament who live full-time in the United States, whose job is to represent Mexican nationals living here before the Mexican government. He called that “a massive erosion of our sovereignty,” and offered an analogy. “Imagine if we said we’re going to have a congressman representing Americans living in Alberta. The Canadians would never go for that.”
Schweizer noted that when President Sheinbaum has attacked him, she has not engaged the underlying evidence. “She doesn’t deal with the fact that I quote one of her top aides in a December 2024 report saying, through mass migration, we are retaking portions of the United States,” he said. “She simply says this is a conspiracy theory and wants it to go away.”
A Briefing in the Oval Office
Schweizer revealed that he carried these findings directly to the White House. He met in the Oval Office with President Trump, Treasury Secretary Bessent, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, where he laid out what Mexico and China were doing.
The administration acted, he said. Several weeks before the interview, it announced a review of the political activities of all 53 Mexican consulates. “The Trump administration is not concerned about taking bold action when they think it’s necessary,” Schweizer said. “I don’t think any other modern president would have undertaken this review with regards to Mexico.”
China’s Birth Tourism on an Industrial Scale
Then there’s China’s “birth tourism” industry, which Schweizer described as the exploitation of birthright citizenship “on an industrial scale as only China can do.”
He said more than 500 birth tourism companies operate in the United States and China, advertising openly, with the Chinese Communist Party newspaper The People’s Daily running stories encouraging the country’s elite to participate. The clientele, by his account, are the children of military officers, intelligence officers, CCP officials, and propaganda ministry personnel—born on U.S. soil, then raised in China.
The scale, drawn from Chinese government and research-firm figures, is what alarmed him most. Since 2013, Schweizer said, roughly 100,000 Chinese babies have been born in the United States every year. “There are, according to the Chinese, more than 1 million U.S. citizens—I’ll put that in air quotes—being raised in China, right now, and they’re going to be able to start voting around 2030.”
This data, too, reached the Oval Office. Schweizer recounted that after he presented it, Trump turned to the White House counsel and said the information needed to go to the solicitor general—and it became part of the debate when birthright citizenship was argued before the Supreme Court.
Schweizer was candid about his expectations for that case.
“I don’t think it looks good for the Supreme Court on the issue of birthright citizenship, but I do hold out a sliver of hope,” he said. He suggested the Court might rule that Trman cannot end birthright citizenship by executive order while still signaling that Congress has the authority to limit its scope—excluding those in the country illegally or on birth tourism. He pointed to Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s apparent incredulity when the ACLU’s attorney argued that no limits at all could be placed on it.
For Schweizer, the stakes run deeper than any single ruling. He quoted the CCP’s own framing of the contest as “a civilizational struggle”—and warned, invoking a line cited by justices across the ideological spectrum, that “the U.S. Constitution is not a suicide pact.” The challenge, he said, “represents the future challenge for our country—this invasion, or what I call this invisible coup.”
Watch the clip above.
