“Incredibly explosive” is how one interviewer described Peter Schweizer’s latest bestselling book, The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon. Schweizer joined Chris Salcedo’s new show to talk about the how Mexico, China, and other adversaries are using flaws in America’s immigration system to undermine the country.
Salcedo asked whether this is a conscious Mexican strategy to try to infiltrate the American system.
“When we look at immigration, we look at it through the lens of 50 or 100 years ago, but it’s very different,” Schweizer said. “Today, it’s weaponized immigration. And Mexico has a totally different view on what is the purpose of immigration. One of the most startling things I ran across in my research were dozens of statements from senior Mexican officials about how they view mass migration.” Schweizer gives two examples:
- From a December 2024 report prepared by a senior aide to Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum: “We already know that the Mexican population in the United States reaches 39.9 million. We Mexicans are reclaiming our territory.”
- A senior Mexican senator named Salgado, who sits on the country’s national defense committee and is a Morena Party official as well, said, “Mexicans are in our territory of California, Nevada, Texas, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, Kansas, Oklahoma, Colorado, and Wyoming. We’re going to take back the territory that was stolen from us.”
“As America’s liberty loving Latino, I would remind the senator from Mexico,” replied Salcedo. “The land was not stolen – you got your ass kicked in a war!”
He asked Schweizer about the abuse of a US visa program created in the 1990s called the EB-5 visa.
“The EB-5 visa program where, if you invest $1 million in the United States and create a certain number of jobs, you get permanent resident status in the United States,” Schweizer said. “It turns out that this program was designed by a lady named Maria Hsia. Turns out she was a Chinese spy.”
“This visa program still exists today, and it’s dominated by Chinese. More than 90 percent of the people that get visas this way are Chinese,” Schweizer continued. “The problem is, you would think permanent resident status means they’re moving here and they’re going to live here. They’re not. They’re staying in China, but they have permanent resident status.”
“So, you’re wondering – why would they want permanent resident status if they’re not living here? The reason is you can legally contribute to political campaigns from China if you have permanent resident status. And they’re pouring tens of millions of dollars into our political campaigns,” Schweizer found.
“It will come no surprise to you, of course, that that money breaks 80 percent to Democrats,” he added. “So, this is another example of how they have weaponized, immigration and are using it to undermine us.”
Salcedo notes how this finding dovetails nicely with Schweizer’s previous two books, Blood Money, and Red Handed, which exposed how the Chinese are corrupting American politics.
“I don’t think it’s an accident that you have bloodthirsty communists allied with (I’m sorry) Democrats. They are their ideological cousins in their anti-Americanism and the way they see government’s role in people’s lives,” Salcedo said.
“That commonality applies here because actors like China or like the Morena government in Mexico, want to undermine the United States. They don’t like American values,” Schweizer said.
“Democrats share some of those views, and they also see the political advantage to this, because it does break for them,” he added. “And that’s the problem.”
“I think China is frightening because they are manipulating birthright citizenship on an industrial scale. That’s this idea that if you just happen to be born in the United States, you are automatically granted US citizenship.
Schweizer’s book goes into great detail about how “birth tourism” has led to 100,000 Chinese babies born annually in US territories, creating 1 million China-raised “American citizens” who will be eligible to vote in American elections by 2030.
Schweizer warned this represents America’s largest national security threat and urged controlled immigration policies before it’s too late.
