In response to revelations by investigative reporter Peter Schweizer, the US State Department is now reviewing the political activities of Mexico’s 53 consulates in the US, and may force some of them to close, according to several news reports.
In his #1 New York Times bestseller The Invisible Coup, author Peter Schweizer devoted two chapters to documenting various efforts by Mexico’s left-leaning Morena Party government to undermine American sovereignty. The book detailed activities by Mexican consulates in Oklahoma City, Los Angeles, Minneapolis/St. Paul and elsewhere in support of violent anti-ICE protests and in interference with the 2024 presidential election.
Mexico has more consulates in the US by far than any other nation and Schweizer’s book showed, citing direct quotes and publicly available information, how Mexican consular officials have been abusing their diplomatic status to engage in political meddling. Under diplomatic rules, consulates are required to be non-political. They run visa programs, aid their citizens who are visiting the US, and promote cultural exchange.
The State Department declined to tell the New York Times what its review would entail, but its reporter tied the move to “conspiracy theories” circulating in conservative media and specifically named Schweizer.
“The accusations largely originated from Peter Schweizer, a right-wing author and contributor to Breitbart News who has promoted conspiracy theories about foreign government influence,” Times reporter Jack Nicas wrote. “His claims include that Mexican consular officials have praised protests against U.S. immigration policies, assisted migrants targeted by immigration raids and distributed Spanish-language textbooks to some schools, which discourages Mexican immigrants from assimilating.”
In reply to that claim, Schweizer responded, “The fact that Mexican consulates are interfering in US politics is not a conspiracy theory – but a fact based on the words and actions of Mexican officials themselves. This is a vitally important step in maintaining integrity in US elections,” Schweizer said today.
Back in March, in an appearance on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal program, Schweizer read directly from his book about a May 2024 meeting held at the Mexican consulate in Oklahoma City that convened Mexican diplomats from several of its US consulates, plus government ministers from Mexico itself, and US Democratic Party activists to discuss how to turn “red states into blue states.”
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has disputed Schweizer’s findings, calling them “absolutely false.”
But Schweizer has the receipts. In an interview with Glenn Beck of The Blaze, Schweizer named Mexican government officials “who were at the center of the LA riots last year and who are manipulating our politics.” Among those was Alejandro Robles, a member of Mexico’s parliament who also sits on the ruling committee for the Morena political party.
Robles lives fulltime in California, outside of Los Angeles, and Schweizer’s book directly quoted him describing his purpose in the United States: “Our mission is to organize the militancy inside the United States.”
Robles has also met with several leftwing groups linked to violence at the LA protests in 2025, including “The People’s Forum,” a far-left activist group which is known to have ties to Antifa.
The Invisible Coup further quoted Robles as saying the people who are working with him are “in the front line of the battle of civil resistance in the US.” Schweizer told Beck that Robles is “particularly angered at immigrants from Latin America who come to the United States and adopt American values.”
The book debuted in early February and rocketed to the top spot on the Times’ own bestseller list, where it stayed for more than six weeks. It contains many shocking examples of foreign and sometimes hostile governments using America’s immigration system as a wedge against the US. In one chapter, the book detailed how China has weaponized “birth tourism,” revealing that as many as 1.5 million Chinese children have been born “birthright” US citizens on American soil in the past 14 years, before being quickly whisked back to the People’s Republic of China to be raised.
But the actions of the Mexican government are more well-known and discussed openly by its politicians, who are quoted throughout the book as claiming that Mexican migrants to the US serve to advance its belief in “Reconquista,” re-conquering the territory it lost after the 1848 Mexican American War, more than 170 years ago.
The book told how, after her election, President Sheinbaum commissioned the writing of a song called “The Migrant’s Hymn,” which contains lyrics about how migrants to the US don’t just go there to work “but to expand the flag of Mexico to include the United States.”
Translated from Spanish, one lyric says “And though my birth certificate says American, I am pure Mexican. We change places but not flags. I carry green, white, and red in my veins. Like the eagle we fly without borders. We break through the fence that separates lands.”
Another song popular at Mexican government events, “Somos Más Americanos,” echoes the same “Reconquista” theme. Its lyrics describe how states from California to Texas, and from Arizona to Wyoming, were stolen from Mexico. “The land was free until the gringos arrived,” goes one lyric. The refrain ends: “We are more American than all of the gringos.” And the song’s chorus echoes: “Indians from two continents mixed with Spanish, We are more American than the son of an Anglo-Saxon.”
“When you see Mexican flags being waved at anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles,” Schweizer told Beck, “that’s not an accident.”
