When a terrorist attack was foiled at Fort MacDill in Florida last month, the two conspirators arrested by the FBI after an investigation were Chinese. But there’s a wrinkle:
“The two Chinese defendants are both anchor babies. Their families were here illegally, and they were born here,” reported John Solomon of JustTheNews. “They got citizenship by virtue of their parents’ illegal act of coming to this country and now they’re charged with trying to carry out a terror attack on our soldiers.”
Alen Zheng, a U.S. citizen, is accused of attempting to detonate an improvised explosive device at MacDill Air Force Base in March. His sister, Ann Mary Zheng, is also charged for allegedly assisting him after the attack to flee the country for China.
Solomon welcomed on his podcast the author and fellow investigative journalist Peter Schweizer, whose most recent bestseller, The Invisible Coup, details how America’s immigration systems have been weaponized by its adversaries. The book predicts that incidents like the Fort MacDill attempted bombing could happen.
“What’s interesting about this case is you’ve got a lot of different elements. It’s an example of what I call ‘weaponized immigration,’ right? Their parents were in the country illegally,” Schweizer said, “and they gave birth to these twins — a brother and a sister. There was this attempted terrorist attack at a US base, and the sister was arrested for helping her brother flee to China, which is also very interesting, showing that they consider China to be a safe haven. It’s part of this broader pattern that we see.”
The Supreme Court is now hearing a challenge to President Donald Trump’s first-day executive order requiring federal agencies not to recognize the children of people who are not citizens or in the country on a permanent legal basis. Schweizer’s research about Chinese “birth tourism” was included in the administration’s legal brief in the case. But it is far from the only way the Chinese and others are weaponizing American immigration and citizenship qualifications.
“This case in Fort MacDill, I think, is the ultimate case study of exactly what you were warning about,” Solomon tells Schweizer. “You came onto the show [previously] and said, ‘Listen, this is going to happen.’ Well, here it is in real life.”
“The fact is that a lot of nefarious actors have used this technique,” Schweizer answered. “The current head of one of the Mexican drug cartels is a US citizen who was born in the United States via birthright citizenship. The Wall Street Journal reported that. The fact that that the head of this cartel [Jalisco New Generation Cartel] is an American citizen actually complicates it for US law enforcement, because if you’re monitoring a US citizen it’s different than if you’re monitoring a foreign national,” Schweizer explained.
“I’d add to the other major drug cartel in Mexico, the Sinaloa cartel, which was headed for many years by El Chapo. In 2012, El Chapo sent his wife Emma secretly to the United States so his twins born that year would be US citizens as well,” Schweizer said. “This birthright citizenship is being exploited by our enemies to weaponize immigration, and we’re the only superpower that allows this.”
“It’s a national security threat and we need to start thinking about immigration the way that our enemies do, so we can actually protect ourselves,” Schweizer said.
Schweizer believes countries like China and Mexico are not seeking partnership with the United States but are working to undermine its sovereignty through immigration systems, election interference, and elite influence. He and Solomon go on to discuss the long-term implications, including foreign-born citizens raised abroad who can vote in U.S. elections. The conversation expands into China’s broader strategy, including election meddling, economic leverage, and the race for dominance in Artificial Intelligence.
