Immigration is not what it used to be, argues bestselling author Peter Schwizer. “It has been weaponized by foreign governments since the Mariel Boatlift in 1980.”
Schweizer’s newest book has topped the New York Times bestseller in its first two weeks. The book, The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon, exposes how foreign governments have weaponized immigration against America, beginning with Cuban dictator Fidel Castro’s Mariel Boatlift scheme to flood south Florida with convicts, mentally ill people, and undercover spies.
Kelly focuses first on the domestic political scene as it relates to the book’s bombshell revelations. “Who are these people domestically collaborating with foreign enemies?”, he asks, “and what do they get out of it?”
“Democratic Party politicians realized this is an electoral winner for them,” Schweizer explains. “Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden have all done one thing in common while they were president — they gutted the rules for applying and getting citizenship in the United States. They got rid of or ignored criminal background checks you are required to pass to get citizenship. They gutted that process. They gutted literacy requirements – that you understand basic English. And they gutted the tests that you were supposed to take to show basic understanding of American government.”
“Why did they do that,” Kelly asks.
“They realized that new immigrants vote 85 percent Democrat,” Schweizer said. “The goal became to mint as many new citizens as possible to create new voters who will support their party 85 percent of the time.”
“And that’s why the biggest years for naturalization in modern American history were 1996, 2012, and 2024.” Those were all years when Democratic presidents were running for re-election.
China, the book shows, has been abusing “birthright citizenship” on an industrial scale. In the last 13 years, Schweizer found, possibly a million US-born Chinese children who are birthright American citizens have been raised and indoctrinated fully in China. A large number of children have also been born to American women who were paid large sums of money to be surrogates by members of China’s elite.
What’s Mexico’s angle?” Kelly asks.
“Mexico views mass migration to the United States as a means by which they can reconquista or reclaim parts of American territory,” Schweizer tells Kelly. “That sounds like a fantastic notion until you see how they say it over and over – top aides to [Mexican President] Sheinbaum, senators, powerful journalists.”
“Does that mean that they actually think California or Arizona are going to become part of Mexico? I don’t know, but it does mean that they’re going to exert sovereignty inside the United States,” he continued. “And they’re already doing that.”
Kelly asks if Schweizer has seen any movement from the Trump administration or Congress to respond to his findings.
Schweizer revealed that he has briefed President Trump, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio on these threats. “About a week before the book came out, I had a 55-minute meeting with the President in the Oval Office. We briefed him on the issues in the book, the political networks that the Mexican government has in the US, some of their activities, also their involvement in partisan American politics, which they’re not supposed to be doing as diplomats. So, I anticipate we’re going to start seeing some movement there.”
Schweizer added that he has also been asked to testify on the book’s findings before two US Senate committees in March.
