'Weaponized Migration' — One of the Most ‘Sophisticated Invasions’ In History
episodePreviously titled ““Weaponized Migration” — One of the Most ‘Sophisticated Invasions’ In History” — renamed by the publisher on Aug 3, 2026
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What is the weaponization of migration?
This book is about the weaponization of migration and how foreign governments and adversaries have weaponized our immigration system. But when they turn 18, they're going to be able to vote. They're going to be able to donate to political campaigns. They're going to be able to get government jobs. It's a massive, massive national security problem. That was Peter Schweitzer, president of the Government Accountability Institute, discussing the explosive findings of his new investigative book, The Invisible Coup, How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon.
In this episode, we sit down with Schweitzer to discuss what his investigative team has uncovered about these foreign influence campaigns. I'm Daily Wire executive editor John Bickley with Georgia Howe. This is a weekend edition of Morning Wire.
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Investigative journalist Peter Schweitzer joins us now to talk about his new book, The Invisible Coup, how American elites and foreign powers use immigration as a weapon. Great to have you back on. Great to be with you, John. Thanks for having me. So, look, there's a lot in this book that we can't hope to fully cover here, of course, but I wanted to ask you about a few things that will be of particular interest to our audience today. Let's start with the cartels. They're a major target for the Trump administration, obviously. You track the cartels, particularly partnering with progressives to influence Washington. Can you unpack that for us?
Yeah. So the drug cartels, of course, have been politically active south of the border for decades. That's no big surprise. But what's happening is there's been this movement to bring progressives from Latin America together with those from North America. One of the groups doing this is a group called progressive international. It was founded by Bernie Sanders. It's run by his former foreign policy advisor. Uh, his chief of staff participates with the organization as do a bunch of, uh, Democrats in Congress, people like AOC, Greg Cesar, etc. Well, this organization has set up a leadership structure that is populated with individuals from Latin America who are linked to the drug cartels. And what they've done is they push for two very important things that the drug cartels want.
Number one is open borders. The drug cartels actually make more money off of human smuggling when the borders are open than they do from drugs. The second thing they're pushing for is ending the military war against the drug cartels in Latin America. So we're seeing a leakage of drug cartel influence moving into North America and affecting our politics.
Well, and have you seen any sort of reversal of this with Trump coming in power in the last year? Is there a real effect in Washington?
I think it's going to create a sense of urgency, John, because what they're hoping to do is avoid— U.S. involvement in the events of Latin America, the drug cartel activity, political influence, etc. So it's probably going to add urgency to it in the short term out of a desire to prevent Trump from taking some of the actions he's taken in Venezuela and elsewhere.
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