Foreign nations such as Mexico and China have “weaponized” mass migration to infiltrate the US to become “political kingmakers,” author Peter Schweizer said in the latest episode of “Pod Force One.”
Schweizer, the best-selling author of “The Invisible Coup,” explained that while many Americans can easily see the economic and social effects of the unprecedented surge in US immigration that took place under former President Joe Biden, “the political networks” that recent arrivals have “embedded inside the United States” are not as apparent.
“The reality is that this is not the migration of 120 years ago when the Irish came or even 50 years ago when Mexican-Americans came,” Schweizer told “Pod Force One” host Miranda Devine.
“This is weaponized migration that has a political purpose and a political direction and is organized.”
Schweizer noted that several Mexican officials have publicly remarked on how migrants from south of the US border are “reclaiming” territory for Mexico inside America.
“We already know that the Mexican population in the United States reaches 39.9 million,” a top aide to Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said in December 2024, according to Schweizer.
“We Mexicans are reclaiming our territory,” the official said.
Mexican Sen. Felix Salgado also boasted, “Mexicans are in our territory: California, Nevada, Texas, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, Kansas, Oklahoma, Colorado and Wyoming,” according to Schweizer, citing a report from “just a couple years ago.”
We’re going to take back the territory that was stolen from us,” Salgado said.
Schweizer acknowledged that on the surface, the idea of Mexico seizing US territory “sounds ridiculous.”
But the Mexican government has “erected a political infrastructure in the United States that is geared towards organizing” Mexican migrants “to serve Mexico’s interests in very specific ways,” he insisted.
He claimed that the Mexican government has surreptitiously been “meddling in our domestic politics,” such as by organizing anti-ICE protests within the US.
“They probably don’t literally expect these states to become Mexican states, but they do want to become political kingmakers within our borders – and they are already trying,” he said.
The Chinese government has meanwhile been taking advantage of birthright citizenship in the US, according to Schweizer.
“[T]here are literally thousands of Chinese companies that Chinese elites pay maybe $80,000, $100,000 to fly their pregnant wives or girlfriends to the United States,” the author said. “They give birth here. As soon as the child is able to travel on an airplane again, they fly back to China.
“But they carry with them a birth certificate and the ability to declare themselves an American citizen at any time.”
Schweizer warned that the US government has not been keeping track of how many people have done this – but the Chinese government has and, “The numbers are eye-popping.
“Their estimates are that every year over the last 13 years, roughly 100,000 Chinese babies have been born in the United States or our territories,” the author said. “That includes Saipan, places like Guam, etc. That is included in birthright citizenship.
Schweizer argued the practice is a “massive problem” because there are now “more than a million” people with US citizenship “who have never lived here, that have no connection to the country whatsoever, who have been raised in an elite society of the [Chinese Communist Party]” and have the right to return to the US at any time and vote in elections.
