Whatever the ruling by the US Supreme Court on a pending birthright citizenship case, America’s adversaries will continue to wield immigration as a weapon, warned author and investigative journalist Peter Schweizer.
“Weaponized immigration,” as Schweizer called it in his #1 New York Times bestseller The Invisible Coup, will continue to threaten US sovereignty, Schweizer told Bianca de la Garza of Newsmax recently.
Schweizer mentioned Mexican government officials who openly treat migration as a strategy for attacking US sovereignty, and Communist China’s encouragement of “birth tourism” by Chinese elites, which that has produced an estimated 1 million-plus China-raised US citizens who will be eligible to vote when they turn 18. A week before his book debuted in January, Schweizer briefed President Trump, and Cabinet secretaries Scott Bessent and Marco Rubio on the book’s revelations.
“In the case of Mexico, I quote dozens of Mexican officials, senators, presidents, and former presidents of Mexico saying they want mass migration to the United States because it erodes our sovereignty,” Schweizer said. “They are creating political networks inside the United States designed to serve the interests of Mexico, not the interests of the United States… and they are quite effective at doing so.”
The Court is expected to rule against the Trump administration’s interpretation of the US Constitution’s 14th Amendment’s meaning of “birthright citizenship.” Early in 2025, Trump ordered federal immigration agencies not to automatically recognize US citizenship of a child born to parents who are not in the US legally. This was immediately challenged in a lawsuit brought by the left-leaning American Civil Liberties Union. During oral arguments before this Spring on that case, the US Solicitor General quoted statistics on the number of Chinese-owned “birth tourism” companies in the US that came directly from Schweizer’s book.
Schweizer, who is himself the child of immigrants, distinguished between children born in the US to parents who truly do want to be Americans, and the industrial-scale abuse of the practice by not only the Chinese, but Russians and African countries as well. A birth tourism scheme from the Democratic Republic of the Congo was just broken up last week.
“There’s a real debate here. If somebody comes into the country illegally, maybe they have lived here for 20 years, and they have a couple of kids, should those kids have US citizenship?” Schweizer said. “But what we’re talking about in the case of birth tourism, or the H-5 five visa program, is people that have absolutely no connection to the United States.”
“They haven’t lived here. They don’t necessarily want to live here, but they want their kids to have citizenship, or they want to get visa permanent resident status,” he continued. “Why do they want that? Number one, citizens (it doesn’t matter if you’ve never lived here) are able to vote in future elections. And the estimates out of China are China has more than 1 million, ‘US citizens.’” Schweizer added.
He also said he believes the administration will lose the case but hopes the Court will recognize a need to deal with the problem. “I’m hoping they’re going to say that Congress can pass laws to limit the scope of this,” he said.
