From Somali fraudsters to Mexican and Venezuelan drug cartels, and from Chinese “birth tourists” to Muslim Brotherhood influence in American university curricula, America is under attack, what Peter Schweizer calls “The Invisible Coup.”
In his first interview to promote the new book, Schweizer joined Fox News host Mark Levin for a full hour to discuss the book and the threats to the American homeland.
“This book is about the weaponization of immigration. That is how foreign adversaries and neighbors like Mexico, or countries like China, or like the Muslim Brotherhood, are using mass migration – as a political weapon against us,” Schweizer tells Levin. “So, when somebody comes from Somalia or Mexico or from China, they are bringing with them, not just themselves, their family, and their culture. They also bring their political networks. And these political networks are hostile to the United States.”
The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon debuts on Tuesday but is already No. 1 on Amazon in pre-order. It explains how American institutions have been compromised and sabotaged by bad actors from the “global South” including Cuba, Venezuela, Brazil, Mexico and others.
“We have sealed the border, which is vitally important. But these networks and these radicals continue to operate inside the United States,” Schweizer tells Levin. “As I document in the book, government officials from Mexico, individuals from China, from the Muslim Brotherhood, they are responsible for a lot of the chaos in our streets. The violent anti-ICE protests, the other protests that we’ve seen taking place, this is an organized effort to undermine America.”
Mark Levin notes build the growth of hostile political infrastructures inside America, fueling protests, manipulating elections, and reshaping institutions. “You were able to uncover it. It’s really quite amazing,” he tells Schweizer. “What was the São Paulo Forum?”
“The São Paulo Forum was an entity formed among the left-wing progressive groups in Latin America in the 1990s,” Schweizer details. “It was founded by Fidel Castro, the dictator of Cuba, and Lula [Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva], who is the current president of Brazil. The goal was to create a unified structure for progressives in South and North America.”
In the US, that includes groups “like the Democratic Socialists of America, with which Bernie Sanders and AOC are involved,” he says. “They talk explicitly about how using mass migration is a way to transform and fundamentally reorient America. For example, Mark, one of the members of the São Paolo Forum is the Morena Party, the ruling party in Mexico.”
Schweizer points out the Mexican government has networks in the US to help this scheme. “They don’t view mass migration from Latin America is just an economic phenomenon. They view it as a political one that is going to allow them to fundamentally change the United States by exerting sovereign control over large portions of the United States. It’s working… and it’s only going to get worse unless we deal with it.”
Levin raises the question of so-called replacement theory. “It’s not a theory, is it? It’s a reality that is that they want to change the citizenry, the culture, the demographics. We’re not assimilating people in our colleges and universities and K-12 education anymore,” he asks.
“Yes, it’s absolutely reality. And they tell us this is so,” Schweizer replies. “I quote extensively in the book from foreign officials, from those in the United States as well, who see this as part of the strategy, of shifting American culture.”
“Look, for example, at what’s happened to labor unions. They have been wildly radicalized, especially those of the unskilled labor unions. Why? Because migrants came in that were part of foreign organizations, terrorist organizations like the FMLN [A Marxist political party and former guerrilla group in El Salvador]. They seized control of these labor unions and radicalized them. They openly claim credit for this,” Schweizer says.
He notes that the US Democratic Party recognized that mass migration is an enormous electoral advantage for them, allowing them to mint new voters.
“In the 2008 Barack Obama election, they were vitally important, the backbone of activism,” Schweizer says. “As a result, when Obama became president, he issued an executive order that got rid of the restriction on allowing FMLN members to come to the United States and become naturalized citizens.”
“I like immigration. My parents were immigrants,” Schweizer says, “but this is weaponized immigration.”
The years with the largest numbers of naturalizations of new immigrants as voting citizens in the United States are 1996 (Clinton), 2012 (Obama), and in 2024 for Joe Biden. “Why is that? Because they know that new immigrants tend to vote 80-85 percent for Democrats,” Schweizer says.
While they were in power, Democrats “dumbed down the rules for citizenship,” he adds. They ignored criminal background checks and language requirements. “Why?” Schweizer asks. “Because they wanted to mint new voters. Because it is a core constituency of the Democratic Party,” he says. “You have this alliance between foreign adversaries who want to undermine the United States and Democrats domestically who see this as an opportunity for themselves to gain a political advantage.”
“That’s why they’re fighting so hard in the streets right now to prevent deportations,” he adds.
Many foreign nations have, in addition to an embassy in Washington, a few consulates scattered around the US to handle matters for their own citizens who live here. China and the United Kingdom, for example, have six and seven.
“Mexico has 53, and they are involved in our partisan politics, basically supporting Democrats,” he tells Levin.
Levin says, “This is going to be the hottest book out there, and for damn good reason.”
