Show Notes
In its first week, Peter Schweizer’s new book, The Invisible Coup, is the number one book in the country. A little celebration might be in order, but Schweizer and co-host Eric Eggers relate the book’s blockbuster revelations to what is happening now in Minneapolis.
Why is ICE even there in the first place? The Department of Homeland Security said its largest immigration enforcement operation ever, called “Operation Metro Surge,” was tied in part to allegations of fraud involving Somali residents, which The DrillDown has discussed previously. Massive defrauding of aid programs including daycare, food, housing, and ambulance services was perpetrated largely by Somalis living in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area.
“The fraud was able to exist so long because you had these cultural enclaves that, wanted to exist outside of any semblance of assimilation into US culture,” says Eggers. “And what you raise in the book is that it is intentional. Those pockets don’t just exist organically, they are intentionally cultivated by forces, both domestically and abroad.”
In the Somali welfare fraud case, the federal government has confirmed what GAI and others have been reporting since 2018 – that money from the scams is being funneled back to Somalia where it has found its way to terrorist groups in that country.
The book details lots of immigration exploitation by China, by Mexico, and others.
“There are a lot of foreign actors that see immigration as a weapon to be deployed in the United States,” says Schweizer. “They’re not a conspiracy. … They’re opportunistic, and they all see the same opportunity to extend their sovereignty, their political influence, and control into the United States.”
“That’s what I mean when I talk about ‘weaponized immigration.’ Americans tend to think of immigration the way it was 50 or 100 years ago — people would show up, want to embrace American values and assimilate. They want to become American, live the American dream,” Schweizer says.
“What we’re seeing now is weaponized migration,” he explains. “So, when these migrants come to the United States now, they’re not only bringing themselves, their family, their language, and their culture, they’re also bringing political networks. And those political networks are designed to prevent other migrants from assimilating and extending their national sovereignty into the heart of the United States.”
Eggers raises a point that Schweizer has made in several media appearances, that “more than one million Chinese with US citizenship who grew up in communist China will soon start voting in American elections.”
You’re saying that’s a real thing?” Eggers asks.
“Yeah, it’s a real thing,” Schweizer replies. “This goes back to the issue of birthright citizenship, the idea that if you happen to be in the United States, and a woman gives birth to a child, that child born on US soil is, de facto, going to be a US citizen.”
As he notes, this kind of “birth tourism” has been happening for decades, particularly among Mexican migrants arriving illegally to have their children in the US. But China, as the book details, is doing it on an industrial scale.
“The Chinese government’s looked at it for Chinese nationals doing it, and the numbers are stunning. They estimate that roughly 100,000 Chinese a year have done this for the past 13 years,” Schweizer explains. “So that literally means there are more than a million, I’m going to put it in air quotes, US citizens that are being raised in China right now under CCP control that, when they turn 18, are going to have the right to vote, the right to donate to political campaigns, the right to get government jobs.”
The Invisible Coup describes multiple techniques, including Chinese birth hotels and a large number of surrogacy companies (107 in Southern California alone) that pay American women to carry the child of a paying Chinese sperm donor. One member of the Chinese elite described in the book has sired more than 100 children in this way.
A case is now pending before the US Supreme Court challenging President Donald Trump’s executive order redefining birthright citizenship to apply only to children of US citizens and those in the country legally as a lawful permanent resident. The case will be argued this spring, with a ruling expected by the summer.
