Government Accountability Institute President Peter Schweizer argues that mass migration is being used as a political lever by foreign governments. Schweizer specifically accuses Mexico of building influence operations inside the United States tied to long-term territorial ambitions in the Southwest.
“The Reconquista movement involves all the leadership of Mexico,” Schweizer said during a recent Fox News appearance. “I could read you literally dozens of quotes from Mexican presidents, Mexican senators, prominent people in journalism, who say they are using mass migration as a means to reconquer or retake the territories that were lost to them. And this is not just bravado.”
Schweizer claimed Mexican officials have established political infrastructure in the U.S., including what he described as Mexican “senators” living in America who represent Mexican citizens abroad. He framed the effort as strategic and organized, not incidental, and said it is designed to shape U.S. politics and weaken American sovereignty.
“As I point out in [The Invisible Coup], they have created an infrastructure in our country. People don’t realize that, right now, in the United States, there are more than a dozen senators and members of the Mexican Congress who live here. And their job is to represent Mexicans living in the United States, in the Mexican parliament,” Schweizer said.
Schweizer continued: “There’s a Senator Ruiz, for example, who sits in the Mexican Senate but lives in Arizona. She’s actually proposed legislation to make California a state of Mexico. There’s a congressman who lives in Ontario, California, who went across the United States saying he was organizing the militancy to undermine the presidency
of Donald Trump. These are all facts and statements that they’ve made.”
To underscore his point, Schweizer compared the alleged strategy to Cuba’s 1980 Mariel boatlift, which he described as an intentional attack on the United States, arguing that hostile actors exploit American openness to create social, economic, and political disruption.
Schweizer said that even aggressive border enforcement addresses only part of the problem, contending that foreign governments can still exploit American hospitality and immigration policy to gain leverage inside the country.
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