The problems of weaponized immigration don’t just stay at the border. “They are walking around the halls of Congress,” author Peter Schweizer tells The Daily Wire’s morning podcast.
Schweizer’s new book, “The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon.” Schweizer joined Morning Wire host John Bickley to explain the surprising connections he writes about in the book between an American progressive organization started by Sen. Bernie Sanders and the Mexican drug cartels.
“There’s been this movement to bring progressives from Latin America together with those from North America, and one of the groups doing this is called “Progressive International,” Schweizer tells Bickley. “It was founded by Bernie Sanders, run by his former foreign policy advisor, and his chief of staff participates in the organization, as do a bunch of Democrats in Congress, like AOC [Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY)] and Rep. Greg Casar (D-TX).”
The organization “has set up a leadership structure that is populated with individuals from Latin America who are linked to the drug cartels,” Schweizer found. “And they push for two very important things that the drug cartels want.”
Their first objective is open borders. “The drug cartels actually make more money from human smuggling, when the borders are open, than they do from drugs,” Schweizer notes. They also seek an end to the military war against the drug cartels in Latin America.
“We’re seeing a leakage of drug cartel influence moving into North America and affecting our politics,” Schweizer tells Bickley.
“I think we make a big mistake when we look at immigration and assume that it’s just a function of economics. And, if we think that the drug cartel problem is a problem south of the border, it’s not just something that bubbles up occasionally here in terms of violence. It’s actually something that is walking around in our halls of Congress, which should concern as deeply,” Schweizer said.
Another issue from the book that Bickley focused on is the EB-5 visa program, which allows foreign nationals to obtain permanent resident status by investing a minimum of $1,050,000 (or $800,000 in targeted employment areas) in a new commercial enterprise.
Schweizer points out that one of the most important lobbyists behind getting that program enacted into law “was lady named Maria Hsia, who was, it turns out, in fact a Chinese spy, or at least a Senate committee declared that about eight years after the bill was passed. And the problem is, this EB-5 program is a very clever way to inject foreign money, legally, into our elections,” he said.
“So, let me explain. You get permanent resident status if you come in through this program, but that doesn’t mean you actually have to live here,” he said. “In fact, there are a lot of Chinese billionaires who obtain permanent resident status through this program that brag how they don’t actually live in the United States – they remain in China.”
Because of that permanent resident status, however, they “are allowed to legally donate to political campaigns… In some instances, we found tens of millions of dollars flowing into political campaigns in the United States from individuals who remain in China,” Schweizer found in his research for the book. “This is a covert way of manipulating our immigration system to curry influence and expand their power within the United States government.”
Listen to the entire conversation above.
