Mexican Officials Call Mass Migration A Tool To Reclaim Americas Southwest

This is one of the central, extensively sourced claims in bestselling author and Breitbart News Senior Contributor Peter Schweizers new book, The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon. As reported by Breitbart, Schweizers investigation lays out how senior Mexican officials, from the presidency down, have framed large-scale migration not as a humanitarian issue, but as a strategic instrument to weaken American sovereignty and reshape the political map of the United States.

Radical leftist former Mexican President Andrs Manuel Lpez Obrador (AMLO) and his protg, current President Claudia Sheinbaum, have both publicly signaled support for reconquista narratives, according to Schweizers research. The book details how these leaders have discouraged Mexican Americansand especially those in the country illegallyfrom assimilating into American culture or embracing a U.S. national identity, instead elevating loyalty to Mexico as a political virtue.

Under both administrations, officials have gone so far as to label illegal immigrants who send remittances back home as heroes, treating the export of people and money as a pillar of national strategy. Propaganda songs and cultural messaging that celebrate rejecting American identity and clinging to Mexican nationalism are championed by the political class, reinforcing a mindset that undermines integration into American society.

Schweizer argues that this posture is not accidental but flows from entrenched attitudes within Mexicos political elite, who look down on ordinary Mexicans that choose to become American and refuse to embrace radical reconquista ideology. Rather than mounting a conventional military invasion, he contends, Mexicos ruling class has adopted a long-term strategy of demographic and political encroachment, flooding territories with illegal migrants loyal to Mexico City to erode U.S. sovereignty from within.

Many pillars of the Mexican elite embrace the notion of Reconquistathe reconquest of the land ceded to the United States by Mexico during the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, achieved through mass migration and political action, Schweizer writes. In his telling, mass migration is not merely a byproduct of economic hardship or cartel violence, but a deliberate geopolitical weapon wielded by foreign leaders who see Americas open borders and progressive immigration policies as an opportunity.

One of the most striking examples Schweizer uncovers is a 2017 exchange with AMLO, after his first two failed presidential bids and before his eventual victory in 2018. When asked if he would run for president again, the Fidel Castro admirer quipped, third times a charm! only to be confronted with a question that cut to the heart of the reconquista agenda.

A reporter asked him directly, Do you think that we Mexicans are reconquering our lands again? and AMLO replied, yes. He elaborated, Yes, especially because the human rights of migrant workers must be respected, and notably offered no objection to the premise of reconquering U.S. territory, effectively normalizing the idea as a legitimate aspiration.

AMLOs eventual victory entrenched his radical leftist Morena Party as the dominant force in Mexican politics after the long decline of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), and in 2024 he handed power to his chosen successor, Claudia Sheinbaum. Schweizer shows that Sheinbaum has not moderated this ideological project; instead, she has amplified it in symbolic and cultural ways that speak directly to migrants living in the United States.

In The Invisible Coup, Schweizer recounts how Sheinbaum personally played a song titled The Hymn of the Migrant during a 2024 news briefing, using the presidential platform to elevate its message. The lyrics leave little doubt about the intended identity politics: And though my birth certificate says American I am pure Mexican, the song proclaims, followed by, We change places but not flags/I carry green, white and red in my veins.

Shortly after the songs debut, Mexicos Parliamentary News Agency distributed an article by Mario A. Medina explaining that the song represents an act of gratitude, of recognition of what they [migrants] represent, I say, the reconquest of our territory, Schweizer observes. In other words, the song is not merely sentimental; it is explicitly framed by official channels as a cultural anthem for the reconquista project.

The rhetoric from senior Mexican officials has grown even more explicit, according to Schweizers documentation. We Mexicans are reclaiming our territory. I wont be able to see it when we fully recover it. Its size has been growing for 30 years, declared National Population Council (CONAPO) chief Gabriela Rodriguez in December 2024, openly celebrating demographic expansion inside the United States as a form of territorial recovery.

Another prominent figure, Senator Felix Salgado, was equally blunt in 2019 when he proclaimed, Mexicans are in our territory (California, Nevada, Texas, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, Kansas, Oklahoma, Colorado, and Wyoming). Were going to take back the territory that was stolen from us. Such statements, taken together, underscore Schweizers warning that Americas border crisis is being exploited by foreign elites who view U.S. law, culture, and sovereignty as obstacles to be overcome, not respected.

Schweizers The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon, published by HarperCollins and available now, raises urgent questions for American policymakers who continue to downplay the national security implications of unchecked migration. For readers concerned with preserving national identity, enforcing the rule of law, and resisting foreign influence over U.S. policy, the books revelations about Mexicos ruling class and its reconquista ambitions offer a stark reminder that immigration is not just a domestic debate, but a front in a broader geopolitical struggle.