By Gloria Ogbonna
Mexican political leaders, including figures at the very highest levels of government, have openly embraced mass migration as a means of accelerating what they describe as the modern-day “reconquista” a term used to signify the reclaiming of U.S. territory that once belonged to Mexico.
This provocative and controversial strategy is among the most striking revelations detailed in The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon, the latest book by bestselling author and Breitbart News Senior Contributor Peter Schweizer.
According to Schweizer’s extensive documentation, radical leftist former Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) and his protégé, current President Claudia Sheinbaum, have both publicly endorsed the ideological foundations of reconquista.
The book asserts that under their leadership, Mexican officials have actively discouraged assimilation among Mexican Americans and Mexicans living illegally in the United States, urging them instead to retain allegiance to Mexico and reject American identity.
In this narrative, illegal immigrants who send remittances back to Mexico are praised as “heroes,” while cultural propaganda—including music—celebrates resistance to assimilation and loyalty to the Mexican homeland.
Schweizer argues that this rhetoric reflects a deeper anti-American sentiment entrenched within segments of Mexico’s political elite. These elites, he writes, often look down on ordinary Mexicans who choose to fully assimilate into American society, viewing them as traitors to the reconquista cause.
Rather than pursuing a conventional military confrontation, Schweizer contends that influential figures within the Mexican government have embraced a long-term strategy aimed at weakening U.S. sovereignty through sustained mass migration and political activism within American borders.
“Many pillars of the Mexican elite embrace the notion of Reconquista—the ‘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, citing numerous statements and interviews with Mexican political insiders.
One of the most striking examples highlighted in the book comes from a 2017 comment by AMLO, made after his first two unsuccessful presidential bids and before his eventual victory in 2018.
When asked whether he would consider running again, AMLO enthusiastically replied, “Third time’s a charm!” Moments later, when questioned directly about whether Mexicans were “reconquering” their former lands, AMLO responded plainly, “Yes.”
He went on to justify the idea by invoking migrant rights, stating that the human rights of migrant workers must be respected—without offering any rejection of the notion that U.S. land was being reclaimed.
After consolidating power through his Morena Party following the decline of the long-dominant Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), AMLO handed leadership to Sheinbaum in 2024. Schweizer notes that Sheinbaum has shown no signs of moderating the ideology.
In The Invisible Coup, he documents her public endorsement of a song titled “The Hymn of the Migrant,” which she played during an official news briefing in 2024.
The song’s lyrics openly reject American identity despite U.S. citizenship: “And though my birth certificate says American, I am pure Mexican…
We change places but not flags / I carry green, white and red in my veins.” Schweizer further notes that Mexico’s Parliamentary News Agency later circulated commentary describing the song as an expression of gratitude to migrants and explicitly framing their presence in the United States as part of the “reconquest of our territory.”
Additional statements from Mexican officials reinforce this theme. In December 2024, Gabriela Rodriguez, head of Mexico’s National Population Council (CONAPO), declared, “We Mexicans are reclaiming our territory.
I won’t be able to see it when we fully recover it. Its size has been growing for 30 years.” Similarly, in 2019, Senator Felix Salgado asserted that Mexicans already occupy what he called their territory across numerous U.S. states, adding, “We’re going to take back the territory that was stolen from us.”
Taken together, Schweizer argues, these statements reveal a coordinated ideological framework within segments of Mexico’s leadership one that treats mass migration not merely as a humanitarian or economic issue, but as a geopolitical instrument aimed at reshaping borders, loyalties, and national identity over time.
Source: Breitbart
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