The Truth with Lisa Boothe: Weaponized Immigration: Peter Schweizer on The Invisible Coup and America’s Political Power Struggle

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Episode: The Truth with Lisa Boothe: Weaponized Immigration — Peter Schweizer on The Invisible Coup and America’s Political Power Struggle
Date: April 7, 2026
Host: Lisa Boothe
Guest: Peter Schweizer

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Overview

This episode centers on the thesis of Peter Schweizer's book The Invisible Coup, which argues that mass immigration has become a powerful, weaponized tool—used intentionally by both domestic political elites and foreign adversaries—to reshape American politics, culture, and national sovereignty. Schweizer reveals mechanisms and motivations behind this so-called "invisible coup," highlighting collusion between progressives, foreign governments (notably Mexico and China), and NGOs, and discusses the long-term threats these dynamics pose to American democracy, security, and identity.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Political Motivation Behind Protecting Criminal Migrants

• Schweizer asserts that mass migration is fundamentally about political power for the Democratic Party—not humanitarianism.

• By increasing the number of new citizens (often expediting the process by removing checks such as criminal background, literacy, and language requirements), Democrats secure a generation-long electoral advantage, as 80–85% of new citizens in the first generation vote Democratic.

• Non-citizen population counts also affect congressional representation and federal funding:

  “If you look at just the illegals in California, they account for four congressional seats... That’s more than the congressional delegation of 13 states in our country.”
  — Peter Schweizer (05:50)

• Migrants are viewed as a controllable voting bloc, essential to maintaining and growing political power.

• Progressives intentionally discourage assimilation, seeing migrants as a force for "transformative" change, often pulling politics further left.

2. Foreign Election Interference and Collusion

• Foreign governments, particularly Mexico and China, view immigration as a tool for exercising power inside the U.S.

• Schweizer reads from official Mexican statements boasting about “reclaiming territory” via U.S. demographic changes, framing migration as a strategic reconquista:

  “We already know that the Mexican population in the United States reaches 39.9 million... We Mexicans are reclaiming our territory.”
  — Quoting Mexican official (08:01)

• Chinese strategy is more systematic, exploiting U.S. birthright citizenship laws ("birth tourism"):

  “By their estimate, every single year... 100,000 Chinese have done this every year... there is an army of one million ‘American citizens’ being raised in China right now.”
  — Peter Schweizer (10:18)

• U.S. complacency or naivety (sometimes abetted by policy, such as relaxed visa scrutiny) enables these strategies, intentionally or not.

3. Weaponized Chaos: Importing Political Networks, Not Just People

• Some migrants bring or build radical political networks with disruptive, anti-assimilation agendas (citing Somali and Mexican groups).
• Certain religious leaders (imams) encourage fraud as religiously justified, and foreign government officials in the U.S. (e.g., Mexican consuls) organize and promote protest and militancy:

  “You have foreign government officials from Mexico... actively fanning the flames for violent protests and in some cases organizing them.”
  — Peter Schweizer (17:41)

• Examples include direct foreign interventions in U.S. political activism—such as a Mexican Congressman organizing resistance networks in Los Angeles.

4. NGOs and Religious Organizations as Actors

• Many U.S.-based NGOs are funded by figures like George Soros and Bill Gates explicitly to “transform” the country’s demographics and political culture.
• Catholic and Lutheran Charities (particularly under Pope Francis) are described as embracing open borders not solely out of humanitarian concern, but as part of a liberation theology-informed, quasi-revolutionary mission:

  “Money is certainly a factor... [but] the goal here is not humanitarian, ultimately it’s revolutionary.”
  — Peter Schweizer (23:35)

• Federal grant money flowing to these organizations (e.g., tenfold increases for Catholic Charities post-Biden border policies) incentivizes continued facilitation of mass migration.

5. Educational System as a Vector for Influence

• Foreign governments (notably Mexico) donate millions of textbooks to U.S. schools serving migrant children, instilling alternative narratives and loyalty:

  “The people that run this program in Mexico describe it as an effort to create ‘Greater Mexico.’”
  — Peter Schweizer (25:05)

• Resistance to assimilation is actively encouraged within some ethnic and religious communities and student associations (e.g., Muslim Brotherhood connections), aiming to maintain cultural and political separation and leverage collective power.

6. Policy Recommendations and the Path Forward

• Schweizer urges not just border security, but a dismantling of embedded foreign political networks and consular presences, particularly from Mexico.
• Calls for reevaluation of birthright citizenship laws, especially in response to China’s “industrial-scale” exploitation.
• Suggests banning Chinese nationals from sensitive flight school training, citing precedent after 9/11.

  “Why should our pilots be squaring off... against a future conflict with a Chinese pilot that was trained in the United States?”
  — Peter Schweizer (32:15)

• Emphasizes the necessity of a shift in awareness, political focus, and willingness to recognize immigration as a national security issue.

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Notable Quotes and Memorable Moments

• “This is not about a humanitarian gesture. It’s not caring about the people, it’s about raw political power.”
  — Peter Schweizer (06:33)

• “They do tend to think long or at least medium term… It is a strategy that fits very well with their cultural approach.”
  — On China’s planning, Peter Schweizer (12:55)

• “People coming here have brought these political networks with them — these radical political networks that want to undermine our country.”
  — Peter Schweizer (18:02)

• “The goal here is not humanitarian, ultimately it’s revolutionary. And that’s what they tell us. And I think that’s what we have to not be naive about.”
  — Peter Schweizer (23:56)

• “If we are living here, [it’s] to shift this country’s political direction and spiritual direction altogether.”
  — Quoting CAIR’s Florida Director (26:31)

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Key Timestamps

• [04:45] — Political motivations for protecting criminal migrants.
• [07:37] — Foreign governments’ (Mexico, China) agendas regarding U.S. immigration.
• [10:18] — China’s birth tourism, birthright citizenship exploitation.
• [16:31] — How weaponized immigration fuels political and cultural chaos.
• [17:41] — Foreign officials organizing protests and militancy within U.S. borders.
• [20:36] — Role of NGOs, religious charities, and their revolutionary intent.
• [24:40] — Educational indoctrination—Mexican textbooks and anti-assimilation networks.
• [30:54] — Policy proposals to stem weaponized immigration and reclaim sovereignty.

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Conclusion

Peter Schweizer and Lisa Boothe present an urgent, unapologetic warning that the current immigration framework is being deliberately weaponized—for votes, funding, and foreign influence—with the complicity of U.S. elites, NGOs, and religious organizations. They contend that only by dismantling these networks, overhauling policies, and shifting the national mindset can the "invisible coup" be reversed.

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For more insights:
Peter Schweizer’s book The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon is out now and, according to Schweizer, has become the #1 best seller on Amazon.
[35:03]: “The beginning of dealing with these problems is recognizing what they are.... Letting your elected officials know that you care about these issues and making them aware of it, that’s, I think, really the key.” — Peter Schweizer

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to the Truth with Lisa Booth where we get to the heart of the issues that matter to you. Today we're exposing the hidden forces reshaping America through weaponized mass migration. Joining me for it is investigative powerhouse Peter Schweizer. You know him, he's the number one best selling author and he's the author of the new explosive book the Invisible Coup. We're going to talk about Mexico's shadow election interference, how China exploits her visa process and how some of these cartels form alliances with progressives. This is also all timely as we see what's going down in places like Minneapolis and around the country with these anti ice cream forces and also Democrats protecting the deportation of child predators and murderers and terrible people. So Peter's revelations uncover this plot that's eroding our sovereignty. Trust me, you're not going to want to miss this conversation. Peter's always a wealth of knowledge and this is extremely interesting. So stay tuned for Peter Schweizer.

[Jana Kramer]

Well, Peter, it's always great to have

[Lisa Booth]

you on the show. I'm really interested in hearing more about this new book and Invisible Coup. It's very timely considering what we're seeing in Minneapolis and around the country with these attacks on ICE and the left in the media for some reason or another deciding to protect pedophiles and rapists and child predators from deportation. So thank you for coming on the show. Appreciate it.

[Peter Schweizer]

Yeah. Always great to be with you, Lisa. Thanks for having me. Yeah, it's a crazy time.

[Lisa Booth]

Before we dig into the book, specifically, why do you think or maybe, you know, I mean, this probably parlays this into the book, but why do you think the left are so protective of these criminal legal aliens? Because if we're just about like the mom or the kid, then they wouldn't be fighting for a Kilmore Abrego Garcia or for some of these child rapists and predators from deportation. So what is it?

[Peter Schweizer]

Yeah, it's a couple of things, Lisa. For the left in general and for big elements of the Democratic Party, migrants are absolutely a crucial base of their political power. So. So what do I mean by that? Well, there's the obvious one, which is those that are voting. And one of the things I point out in the book is that the Democrats really discovered under Bill Clinton in the 1990s that if you could mint a lot of new citizens, especially if you cast aside criminal background checks, which they've done when they're in power, cast aside the literacy requirements, cast aside the language require and you emit new voters, Democrats discover that 80 to 85% of them vote Democratic. Now that evens out over time, future generations, the split is more 50, 50. But the point is this is a huge voting block for 20 years, basically for an entire generation. So they need it for votes, but they also need it for political power in other ways. So the way that we calculate the census in the United States is based on counting people, not counting citizens. So if you have, you know, 20% of population or illegal migrants, that counts to how many congressional seats you're going to get, how much you're going to get in the Electoral College. It also determines how much you're going to get in federal block grants for everything from welfare to transportation, etc. So what numbers are we talking about? Well, if you look at just the illegals in California, they account for four Congressional seats. California has four more congressional seats because of illegals in that state. To put that in relief, that's more than the congressional, the size of the congressional declaration of 13 states in our country. So this is a hugely important basis for political power. The other thing I would add is, and I quote people extensively saying this in the book, Progressives believe, with good evidence that migrants tend to be pretty far left of center compared to the average American. There are obviously exceptions to that, but generally speaking, they tend to be left of center. And progressives push them not to assimilate, not to embrace the American dream because they see them as a transformative power. So ultimately, I would say this is not about a humanitarian gesture. It's not caring about the people, it's about raw political power. And they realize that if migrants self deport or if they deport in large numbers is going to have a catastrophic effect on their hold on political power.

[Lisa Booth]

And we're seeing that for, you know, the forecast for the 2030 Census and what apportionment would mean for the Electoral College and for the Congressional breakdown as well as you're laying out too. So basically, in essence, they see these individuals as people they can control.

[Peter Schweizer]

Yeah, they do. And, and what, what I think is important here is that it's not just these domestic forces that see these see migrants as a, as a political weapon. It's actually foreign elites. So you have foreign elites like the government of Mexico, like the government of China, like the Muslim brother, who have their other agendas. But there's kind of a confluence of interests. So let me just if I could, Lisa, read briefly two quotes from senior Mexican officials that I think explain how Mexico views mass migration. The first one is from a December 2024 government report, Mexican government by a top aid to shine bomb. And she wrote, quote, we already know that the Mexican population in the United States reaches 39.9 million. We Mexicans are reclaiming our territory or this quot from one of the most powerful senators in Mexico. He sits on the National Defense Committee, which is the most important committee. He's a member of the Marina party, which is the ruling party. He said just a couple of years ago, quote, mexicans are in our territories, California, Nevada, Texas, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, Kansas, Oklahoma, Colorado and Wyoming. We're going to take back the territory that was stolen from us. I could read you dozens of quotes like that. I have them in the book. That is how Mexico's elite views mass migration. And there are things they've steps they've taken to project Mexico's sovereignty into the United States. So when you get foreign actors like Mexico and China that view immigration through that lens, and you get domestic elites in the United States, like progressives and stalwarts of the Democratic Party, saying this is good for our politics, you get a perfect storm of mass migration as a political weapon. And that is what we're dealing with in the country today.

[Lisa Booth (Interviewer)]

So are our elites, are our leaders in this country aware of or foreign adversaries plans of this, or is it just purely selfish political reasons that they're going along with it?

[Peter Schweizer]

You know, that's a great question, Lisa. It's hard to know what people are thinking. They certainly don't give an indication that they do. But on the other hand, they don't do anything to stop it. So, you know, one example would be China with their policy of exploiting birthright citizenship. This is an issue the Supreme Court's going to be taking up. And the argument for in favor of birthright citizenship is if you happen to be in the United States, give birth to a child, that child is automatically granted U.S. citizenship. And our federal government has no idea, zero idea how many citizens have been created that way. Because you think about it, when you have a birth certificate for your child that doesn't list the nationality of the it's not in some kind of federal database. So the question is, how big is the scale? And the scale for China is incredibly high. The Chinese government has looked at this. The Chinese government has encouraged Chinese elites to do this over the last 12 to 13 years, by their estimate, every single year. Over the last years, 13 years, 100,000 Chinese have done this every year. So what they're doing, it's called birth tourism. They fly into the United States, they give birth to their child, they fly back to China. The child, this, the, the child is raised in China, in government schools. Their parents are part of the elite. So there, there is this, in a sense, army of 1 million, quote, unquote, American citizens being raised in China right now. And 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 take government jobs. And the Obama administration actually perpetuated this problem by simplifying the visa process and telling customs and border patrol, if a woman comes from China and she's pregnant, don't ask her any questions about whether she's having a medical procedure here or whether she's giving birth. So they clearly have done things to streamline the things that our foreign adversaries are doing. Whether they're doing that because they're completely naive and ignorant, or whether they're doing it because they're complicit and they know what the motives are, I don't know. But either way, it's, it's horrible for the country.

[Lisa Booth (Interviewer)]

Well, and China, probably more so than maybe any other country, really plans for the future in a very methodical way. Would you say that's accurate statement?

[Peter Schweizer]

Yeah, 100%. You know, they. On this birthright citizenship, it's really ingenious if you think about it. Beginning in 2011, they started running articles in the people's daily, which is the CCP's main newspaper, telling, think about this, telling elites in China, you have a constitutional right if your child is born in America, for your child to have U. S. Citizenship. And so why would a foreign adversarial country push that idea? I think because they would view it as their, to their political advantage. And so there's this big industry in China that arranges this for members of the Chinese elite. And we know just based on their strategic planning and on their sort of cultural outlook on world affairs, they do tend to think long or at least medium term. And this is something that they tried to do in Hong Kong in the early 2000s. The government of Hong Kong shut it down, said no birthright citizenship for, for Chinese nationals. So it is a strategy that fits very well with their cultural approach, in contrast to Mexico's approach, which is less systematic but has its own ambitions and its own form of weaponization in our country as well.

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[Lisa Booth (Interviewer)]

You know, so I guess we look right now as a country and you look at the divisions taking place and sort of like the anti western mentality. How much of this do you think is due to the mass immigration we've seen over the past decades?

[Peter Schweizer]

I think we see a lot of chaos in our streets because of weaponized immigration. And I think some of the, even some of the corruption stories that are coming out the, the Somali corruption people want to say, well, you know, they're from Somalia, they're from this, you know, corruption. It's one of the most corrupt countries in the world. This is just sort of a cultural thing. And, and certainly that's part of it. But when you look at what these political networks in the United States are doing, they're encouraging and perpetuating this destructive behavior. So for example, you have imams, Muslim preachers in the United States. They're here on one religious visas. They're not, they're not Americans, but they're running some of the biggest mosques in America. And what they actually say, Lisa, is they encourage Muslim believer to engage in fraud of public assistance because they say it's, it's attacks on non Muslims, attacks that non Muslims should be paying to Muslims. So they actually give sort of religious backing. I'm not saying that that all imams preach this. They certainly don't. But there, there's a sizable number that do. So this is organized and intentional as a weapon to be used. You look at the Los Angeles rights that we had last year, what's going on in Minneapolis. Now, as I highlight in the book, you have foreign government officials from Mexico who live inside the United States who are actively fanning the flames for violent protests and in some cases organizing them. You've got a guy named Alejandro Robles who I talk about in the book. He lives in Ontario, California, outside of la, but he also sits in the Mexican Congress, their chamber of deputies. In 2025, he was bragging to his colleagues in Mexico that he was, you know, visiting in, going across the United States meeting with radicals to, quote, organize the militancy inside the United States. That was, those were his exact words. He met with antifa related groups about forming Common Cause. When the riots broke out in Los Angeles, you had other Mexican officials who were cheering it on and said, we're, we're part of the permanent resistance to Trump. So this is organized. This is intentional. This is not just random stuff that unfortunately happens. It is intentional and it is weaponized immigration. And we need to start realizing it's great to have a national debate about how immigration affects our economy and affects, you know, a crime on our streets, but we've got to realize people that have come here have brought these political networks with them, these radical political networks that want to undermine our country, and that is effectively what they're trying to do right now.

[Lisa Booth (Interviewer)]

Well, and we also saw this with, as you pointed out, the Minnesota fraud and money going overseas to terrorist groups, or at least that's been the allegation and some reporting that's been done on that, which it's like, why are we letting people who have those ties into the country?

[Peter Schweizer]

Yes, and, and I would, I would note, by the way, Lisa, also in Minneapolis, Mexico has a network in the United States of 53 consulates, which just to put that into perspective, the United Kingdom and China have six and seven consulates. Mexico has 53. One of those is in St. Paul, Minnesota. And they have worked with groups like CLUES and MIRAC that are at ground zero for a lot of these anti ICE protests. And we've seen that with other consular officials elsewhere. So there is a pattern of behavior here. And I think we need to look at shutting down consulates. We need to look at expelling Mexican diplomats that are engaging in this kind of behavior. Some of them are also getting involved in our domestic elections inside the United States, which diplomats are certainly not supposed to be doing. But we need to focus on this and realize this is not sort of a series of random events. This is organized and being encouraged by foreign powers.

[Lisa Booth (Interviewer)]

What role do NGOs play in all of this?

[Peter Schweizer]

A very, very important component to this. Some of the NGOS are domestic groups that are funded by people like Bill Gates and George Soros. And these NGOS will say explicitly that their purpose for supporting migration in the United States is that it has a, quote, transformative effect on our country. In other words, they, they want migrates, migrants to come change the country because they view the country as fundamentally flawed. So they play an important role there. The other institutions I would look at is Some of the religious groups, Catholic Charities, and also Lutheran Charities, and particularly the Catholic Church under the previous pope, Pope Francis, where they've wholly embraced the message of open borders to the extent that it was an element of liberation theology, this, this, this. This strain of theology that. That the gospel is really achieved through Marxism, Leninism, not through a personal relationship with God. And that, of course, has played an important and powerful role here. So there are lots of adversarial institutions, foreign powers, also NGOs, that see mass migration ultimately, not through the lens of helping individual people. They say it through the lens of a transformative political movement that orient the United States in the direction they want it to go. Not that we're supposed to have any say in it, but of course, we did have a say in that in the 2024 election. And that's why I think you're seeing so much resistance in the streets, because this fundamentally goes to this core of progressive power in the United States.

[Lisa Booth (Interviewer)]

So how much of it is about money for even these Catholic nos? Because they get a lot of money out of this as well, right?

[Lisa Booth]

It.

[Peter Schweizer]

They do, yeah. Lisa, there's no question there is a motivation there. Catholic Charities saw there, you know, when, when Joe Biden opened the borders, you saw Catholic Charities federal grant money increase by tenfold, ten times as a result. So money is certainly a factor here. But I think it's more than that because they tell us it's more than that. And yes, they do say it's because they care about people. And, okay, we can take them at face value, I guess, on that. But they also tell us, us this has a political component, the sanctuary movement. You know, we've got sanctuary cities and sanctuary states. We've even got sanctuary labor unions. If you look at the history of the sanctuary movement in the United States, Beginning in the 1980s, the founders of that movement were very, very explicit. They saw the sanctuary movement as a means by which you could institute radical change in the country. And they even said, when refugees are coming from Latin America, they. They particularly were focused on helping those that were part of radical Marxist movements. So if you came into the United States illegally and you said, I work with the fmln, which is the Marxist movement in El Salvador, they would take you in and give you exactly what you want. If you came in and said, well, I was a secretary working for the Salvadoran government, they wouldn't help you. This is what the leaders of that movement would tell you. That approach still continues to exist. So the goal here is not humanitarian ult. Ultimately it's revolutionary. And that's what they tell us. And I think that's what we have to not be naive about, you know,

[Lisa Booth (Interviewer)]

and what role does this all have in our education system? Because, you know, obviously we are importing people who hate our country and want to transform it. We've even given refugee status to people like Ilana, who speaks ill of America and you know, basically hates being here and hates it, but yet, you know, won't leave back to her home country. But, you know, but then these people become educators or, you know, and then they, they taint paint, you know, American born kids as well. So I guess, you know, talk about sort of, you know, the poisoning of the well that happens with all of this.

[Peter Schweizer]

Yeah. At least it really starts in our element, elementary schools. And think about this for a minute. So you have, you know, tens of millions of people in the United States illegally that came across the border. Many of them bring children. Those children are enrolled in public schools from Los Angeles to Orlando window. They don't speak or read English. So the Mexican consulate, out of the kindness of their heart, I'm saying this with irony, donates every year more than a million Mexican textbooks to school districts in the United States to educate these migrant children, to give them their textbooks. The problem is, when you look at these textbooks, they're even far worse than, than some of the worst American textbooks. They, they, they view the United States as an enemy power, as an occupying power. They have a totally different view. Mexican war in the 19th century. They have a totally different view of race relations in the United States. Not positive, I would say. So it begins with this kind of notion that we're allowing Mexico to educate millions of kids inside the United States. And by the way, the people that run this program in Mexico describe it as an effort to create, quote, greater Mexico. In other words, we're going to be extending our ideas and our sovereignty into the United States. So it begins at the earliest level. But you have the added problem that you've talked about that there are a lot of students that come here, particularly groups like the Muslim Students association, which were related to the Muslim Brotherhood, which is linked to terrorist activity. These groups are on our college campuses and their goal here is not to assimilate. In fact, if you do assimilate, they will attack you. They will go after you. If I could just let me read two quotes because again, it's important to know this is not just me saying this. Two quotes from, from officials with care, which is the, you know, the Council for American Islamic relations, one of the biggest Islamic groups in the country. The first one is from the Florida director in 2025. He says, quote, how do we even justify living here? I mean, why are we living here? Have we asked ourselves this question, why are we living in the United States? The only answer I believe is excusable and justifiable is if we are living here to shift this country's political direction and spiritual direction to together or this other one. From a member of the board of directors of care, he says, quote, ultimately we can never be full citizens of this country because there is no way we can be fully committed to the institutions of this country. It can be citizens in the sense that we try to influence American policy. So they do not want assimilation. They do not want people to embrace the American dream. Their message and their push is for people in the United States that come here as migrants, as immigrants is to operate as a resistance to assimilation and forward their revolutionary goals inside the United States. It's a huge, huge problem and against evidence of the what I call the weaponization of immigration.

[Lisa Booth]

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[Lisa Booth (Interviewer)]

I mean, obviously, you know, we we close the borders as President Trump has worked towards and has done so successfully. But what do we do about it? I mean, we've got a lot of these people in the country who hate America, who don't want to assimilate, as you pointed out. I guess. What's the path forward? How do we save the country? Country?

[Peter Schweizer]

Well, I think sealing the border was key, but again, it does nothing to deal with the political networks operating in our country. I think those need to be dismantled and they need to be undermined. So with Mexico, that means closing a lot of consulates, kicking a lot of these diplomats out of the country. I also don't quite understand where we're allowing Mexico to have all these elected officials living in the United States, basically encroaching on our sovereign sovereignty and treating Mexicans in the United States as an extension of the Mexican government. So that, I think would be the first start. The other thing we need to do is look at how China is exploiting our immigration system. The birthright citizenship case. People need to understand, and I think this is going to be argued before the Supreme Court based on the evidence in the book that birthright citizenship is not just sort of a random Thing that happens there is an industrial system scale model that China is embracing and the notion that you can literally fly into the United States, give birth to a child and then when the child is ready to get on an airplane, just fly back to China, raise them in China for 18 years and then, and they are still US citizens. I don't think anybody would envision that that is related to the 14th amendment. So we need to deal with that issue. There are a series of other things that I've highlighted in the book. Right now, now we are training in the United States thousands of Chinese pilots. They're going to be flying for the Chinese Air Force, squaring off against us. They're at flight schools. Remember we had this problem before 9 11. The 911 terrorists were in, in U.S. flight schools. We banned people from terrorist sponsoring countries from going to our flight schools. We need to ban Chinese nationals from our flight schools. Why should our pilots be squaring off against, against a future conflict with a Chinese pilot that was trained in the United States? There are some very specific things that we can do to deal with these issues, but we have to focus on it. We have to recognize the issue for what it is. It's not just immigration, it's weaponized immigration. And we have to take bold action. And I'm confident we're going to see some movement on that, at least in some of these areas. The key thing is awareness and change, changing our mindset on these issues.

[Lisa Booth (Interviewer)]

Do you think the Trump administration is aware of all this?

[Peter Schweizer]

So I've had meetings with senior Trump officials at the Cabinet level. I've also had meetings on Capitol Hill with several U.S. senators. There are going to be hearings on Capitol Hill and I expect we're going to see some movements from the Trump administration on some of these areas. So I'm optimistic. But you know, look, part of it is, is maintaining focus and attention on these issues. There's so much stuff that's happening in the world right now that these leaders are dealing. So they need to know that this is a priority for the American people. And we need to keep at the center of their mind the national security implications of this, the immediacy of other issues, Venezuela, et cetera. I recognize that it's there. But in terms of scale and threat, I would argue these issues are a much larger fundamental threat down the road than these issues that are popping up right now.

[Lisa Booth (Interviewer)]

And then before we go, is there anything else else you want to get in about the book?

[Peter Schweizer]

Well, I think you know what I try to do with all my books, Lisa, is, is let the information speak for itself. So what you're going to see in this book is Mexican officials, Chinese officials, Muslim Brotherhood leaders talking about how they view immigration as a weapon. So this is not theorizing. And I tell people also a lot of the feedback I've gotten from the book, it's been tremendous. It's been the number one book of all books sold on Amazon for the last nine days. So the response has been overwhelming. But sometimes people get so discouraged, they say, oh man, the problems are so big, you cannot get immobilized. The beginning of dealing with these problems is recognizing what they are. So please read the book. If you read the book, don't get angry, frustrated and discouraged. Let it spur you to action. Letting your elected officials know that you care, care about these issues and making them aware of it. That's, I think, really the key.

[Lisa Booth]

It's a great message. Peter Schweizer, always a wealth of information. The Invisible coup, how American elites and foreign powers use immigration as a weapon. And it's out now. Peter, congrats already on the success of the book, as you pointed out. Always love having you on. Would love to have you back on soon. And congrats on the success of the book.

[Peter Schweizer]

Yeah, always looking forward to talking to you. Lisa, thanks so much for having me.

[Lisa Booth]

Thanks, Peter. Have a great day. Oh, is Peter Schweizer. Appreciate him for taking the time to comment on the show and talk about his new book, the Invisible Coup. Appreciate you guys at home for listening every Tuesday and Thursday, but you can listen throughout the week. I also want to thank my producer John Cassio for putting the show together. Until next time,

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