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“Weaponized Migration” — One of the Most ‘Sophisticated Invasions’ In History
01 Feb 2026
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Chapter 1: 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?
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Chapter 2: How do drug cartels influence Washington politics?
So the cartels certainly shaping that content as well.
Yes, no question about that. And they're pushing these themes. And you see that with the Scheinbaum administration in Mexico. They don't want the Trump administration to go after the drug cartels. And as I point out in the book, Scheinbaum has a long history of cooperation and working with the drug cartels.
She's appointed senior people to the national police that are known or have been known to have been connected to the drug cartels.
It's a pretty large question, but what are the national security implications for all of this, what you've uncovered?
Well, they're enormous. I mean, I'll give you one related to China. China has created an industrial-sized exploitation of birthright citizenship. Supreme Court is going to be hearing this case this spring. This is the idea that if you happen to be in the United States, give birth to a child, that child becomes a U.S. citizen because this is where they were born.
Our federal government does not keep track of how many people have done this. We have no idea because when you're given a birth certificate, it does not say the nationality of the parents. But the Chinese government has looked at this and they have come up with some astonishing numbers of how they themselves have exploited this.
The Chinese government and some of the research firms in China estimate that over the last 13 years, 100,000 Chinese a year have been born in the United States, been granted citizenship, and then are returned back to China where they are raised in CCP schools. They're often the children of the elite. So if you do the math, John, you're looking at more than a million U.S. citizens.
that right now are being raised in China. And when they turn 18, they're going to be able to vote in our elections, donate to our political campaigns, take government jobs. Let's remember the 2016 presidential election was settled by 80,000 votes. So we can see the potential, the ability here for China to manipulate our politics is enormous.
Related to this, you use the term instant citizen. Can you unpack that term for us?
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