Nation's commit suicide by demographic means - illegal immigration will be our destruction - IF we do nothing.

 

Peter Schweizer’s Invisible Coup Warns of the Migrant Invasion

In his typical lucid, accessible style, Schweizer nevertheless provides a deep dive into how mass immigration is being used to undermine America.

John Dale Dunn | February 25, 2026 www.americanthinker.com

Peter Schweizer is a renowned and accomplished American investigative journalist who has written 19 books. His latest book, The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon, could be his best and most important to date, as he discusses the existential risk to America posed by multiple, multifarious actors who are enemies of Western civilization and American culture.

If you have read Schweizer before, you know that he doesn’t beat around the bush. Instead, he names names and identifies events to ensure readers understand every issue. He is a clear, detailed, and honest broker, totally unlike what Rush used to call “drive-by journalism.” He digs into his subject so that the attentive reader, even the lazy reader like me, gets the picture—knows who the major players are and what they did or did not do. It’s gratifying to read a writer who takes his work seriously. The Invisible Coup lives up to this high standard.

Despite being fact-filled, the book moves quickly as Schweizer addresses the major migration threats to American cultural, political, and national security, posed by an assortment of bad actors. On the left, mass migration has been promoted as humanitarian, and the migration of distressed populations has been held up as a moral obligation. However, non-assimilating populations can destroy societal order and peace—as the Roman empire and modern Europe and America show, that’s a very real risk of mass immigration.

Criminality of immigrant populations is undeniable. On a small scale or with aggressive policing, a country can handle it. On a large scale, without a serious response, it disrupts economies, civic order, and peace. Unfortunately, powerful elites and socialist political movements encourage mass migration to America to get political power.

Schweizer vividly describes what mass migration has done and is doing to America. Currently, there are two primary types of mass immigration.

There’s a Latin American movement (especially connected with Mexico) that envisions “La Raza” (the race) effecting a “Reconquista” to reclaim the western half of the US that Mexicans of Spanish and Mestizo lineage held before Mexico lost the Mexican-American War (1846-1848). The strategy uses Latin American immigration, organized and influenced by state-based Mexican consulates, to encourage political activity and to support the election of individuals sympathetic to the cause. NGOs, as the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), serve as advocate groups. Mexican political leaders are taking the project seriously.

Additionally, massive migration from Muslim nations worldwide brings ideological antagonism to Western values and non-Muslim people. Islam’s stated goal is destruction. The first method is straight-up wartime conquest. The second method, if Muslims have become a critical mass of the population, is to eliminate minority populations by genocide, forced slavery, or dhimmi (second-class) status. And the third tactic, which is the current tactic in America, where Muslims are still a minority, is to create domestic advocacy programs that operate from Muslim ghettos that function as ribats (fortifications/ghettos).

Mass immigration’s globalist promoters envision oligarchic power in a world without national identities and political power centers.

China has its own goal, and Schweizer focuses intently on China’s motives and actions as it seeks to become the world’s hegemon. To do this, China must destroy America, and it’s currently putting its efforts into mass migration to swallow America and the American republic with an overwhelming demographic shift. Schweizer writes about Chinese surrogacy and tourist births in America, which, combined with birthright citizenship, create massive numbers of Chinese raised in and loyal to China, but with American citizenship. Mass immigration also allows people loyal to China to reside in America.

Schweizer also addresses how immigration is a money funnel. Thus, we learn how foreign countries can funnel campaign contributions through visa holders.

No immigration discussion would be complete without looking at the Catholic Church’s extraordinary involvement in promoting uncontrolled migration. He does a splendid job of showing how socialist, liberation theology Catholic clergy have been malefactors of great impact in this mess that is uncontrolled migration.

Mr. Schweizer presents a strong, evidence-based argument that reminds the reader of Sir John Glubb’s essay on the death of empires—they die of suicide. One of the important factors in national suicide is allowing unrestrained in-migration of parasitic disruptors.

 

Mexico is a 'war zone' with the Mexican government and violent lawless cartels. Lives are at stake including vacationing Americans.

 

Drugs, drones, and bombs: Mexico’s most powerful cartel at the center of violent rampage

The Jalisco New Generation Cartel’s reprisal against Mexican authorities for the killing of its leader highlights the threat of the powerful group armed with military weapons and billions in wealth.

By Steven Richards 2-23-26 justthenews.com

By all reports, it was a usual Sunday morning in the wealthy Pacific port city of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico when gunshots began to ring out and sirens began to blare. Mexican cartel bandits scattered across the city, lighting vehicles on fire and ambushing Mexican police and national guard. Scenes more reminiscent of a Middle East insurgency than a Mexican resort town began to circulate online. 

The culprits were members of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, Mexico’s most powerful and well-equipped cartel that has carried out several attacks against Mexican government forces in the past. The attacks followed the death of the cartel’s leader, Ruben Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as “El Mencho,” in a Mexican military operation last weekend. 

CJNG, as the name of the cartel is abbreviated, rose to power in Jalisco following a dispute with the infamous Sinaloa cartel once headed by the famed Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. Since 2016, it has consolidated its control in Jalisco and operates a global drug trafficking empire with interests spanning from China to North Africa. Its primary source of income is moving crystal methamphetamine from Mexico to the United States. 

"International cartels and transnational organizations"

The widespread attacks vindicate the Trump administration’s warnings about the violent cartels, who export drugs to America but also wield “military grade weaponry” that poses a threat to Mexican law enforcement and the United States. 

Though initially hesitant to cooperate with American forces and crack down on the cartels, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has adopted a tougher stance towards the criminal organizations. Since Trump took office last year, the Mexican government has extradited at least 92 cartel members for trial in the United States. The Mexican armed forces have also increased operations against the cartels like the one that targeted El Mencho last weekend. 

Derek Maltz, a retired special agent in charge for the Drug Enforcement Agency, told Just the News that he has seen a shift in Mexican policy in recent months. 

“I've been a very big critic for many years now, on the Mexican government's soft on crime, hugs for drugs, policies down there,” Maltz told the John Solomon Reports podcast on Monday. “And what I've seen is completely the opposite.” 

Maltz said that he met with Mexico’s Secretary of Security and Civilian Protection Omar Harfuch on his visit to the United States and “it was very clear” that he and his team “were very serious about going after these cartels and working with America.” 

He added, “Action speaks louder than words, right? We’ve heard a lot of talk in the past, but now we’re seeing action.” 

For example, the Pentagon has been collaborating closely with Mexican security officials. Last summer, it hosted an intelligence-sharing effort with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency and Mexican officials, Just the News reported.

“Trump has said to the President of Mexico, either you take care of these cartels or I will,” Fred Fleitz, the chief of staff of Trump’s National Security Council during his first term, told the John Solomon Reports podcast on Monday. “That led to the extraordinary action by the Mexican government to go up against cartels, which they never do. Right now, the government is at war with two of them, and we can see what happens when you go after them. This is a reaction to Trump's strong leadership.” 

Mexico’s most powerful cartel designated terrorists by the U.S.

President Donald Trump officially designated CJNG and other cartels as terrorist organizations last year as part of a U.S.-led effort to degrade the criminal organizations and secure America’s southern border. The president initially directed the Pentagon to draft options for military 

The U.S. Department of State has described CJNG as a “transnational organization with a presence in nearly every part of Mexico” that trafficks fentanyl, engages in extortion, smuggles migrants, steals oil and minerals, and trades in weaponry. 

“The Cartels have engaged in a campaign of violence and terror throughout the Western Hemisphere that has not only destabilized countries with significant importance for our national interests but also flooded the United States with deadly drugs, violent criminals, and vicious gangs,” President Trump said in his 2025 executive order designating the groups as terrorist organizations. 

According to the U.S. administration, cartels like CJNG pose a “national-security threat beyond that posed by traditional organized crime” because they have developed close ties with “extra-hemispheric actors” like other terrorist organizations, have engaged in insurgency, and have infiltrated governments in the Western Hemisphere. 

CJNG is one of Mexico’s richest cartels and a substantial portion of its billions of dollars in annual income comes from targeting Americans. Like other cartels, CJNG is engaged in the illegal drug trade, shipping crystal methamphetamine across the U.S. southern border as well as to countries like Canada and Australia. Its “de facto” control of the Mexican port of Manzanillo in Colima, Mexico, “allows the group to import precursor chemicals to produce fentanyl and methamphetamine,” according to the U.S. Director of National Intelligence.

But, the group has also diversified its income by embarking on novel ventures, including scamming U.S. seniors through timeshare fraud and extortion. Just days before the Mexican military operation targeted “El Mencho,” the U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned the Kovay Gardens Mexican timeshare resort, five individuals, and 17 companies associated with what it called a “timeshare fraud network” led by CJNG in Puerto Vallarta. 

According to the Treasury Department, CJNG would obtain information from insiders on U.S. owners of timeshare properties inside Mexico. A cartel-controlled call center would then contact the owners and attempt to offer services for advance payments. The scammers have also gone on to re-victimize the U.S. owners by posing as lawyers offering to help recover the lost funds, the Treasury Department said.

Cartels adopt military-grade weapons, outclass police

The cartels, and especially CJNG, present a new and dangerous problem. They are increasingly employing military grade weaponry like drones, improvised explosive devices, and rocket-propelled grenade launchers. 

Recent battles between CJNG and rival cartel cells have terrorized villages, some within just a few hundred miles of the U.S. border. The use of drones in particular has made them more dangerous, which they use to drop explosives on their enemies, both Mexican police and rivals.  

“CJNG has conducted intimidating acts of violence, including attacks on Mexican military and police with military grade weaponry, the use of drones to drop explosives on Mexican law enforcement, and assassinations or attempted assassinations of Mexican officials,” says the State Department. 

Secretary of State Marco Rubio says that the adoption of such weaponry by the cartels makes them more dangerous than traditional criminal organizations or gangs. 

Not just local street gangs

“We cannot continue to just treat these guys as local street gangs,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in an interview with Catholic TV network EWTN last year. “They have weaponry that looks like what terrorists, in some cases armies, have.”

Cartels have steadily adopted military-grade weapons over the last decade, a trend that is fueled by the arms race between rivals. In 2015, CJNG was the first cartel to use a rocket-propelled grenade to shoot down a Mexican military helicopter that was participating in an operation against the gang. In many cases, Mexican police have found themselves at a disadvantage against the cartels’ military equipment.

“They’ve been a step ahead of us for years,” former state security chief Alfredo Ortega told The New York Times last year. He led operations in Michoacán, Mexico, a state where CJNG has recently battled its rivals.  

“They have unlimited resources and access to weapons and technology our local forces simply don’t. They came at us with Barrett .50-caliber semiautomatic rifles, and our local police forces didn’t even have anything close to that."

 

'Selective Law Enforcement' is definitely a serious problem in this once great Republic. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

 

Detroit Police Officers Punished For Cooperating With Border Patrol. ICE Tells Them To Apply For Jobs.

A Detroit police sergeant sued the city, arguing that its policy violates federal law.

By  Zach Jewell Feb 20, 2026 DailyWire.com

Two officers with the Detroit Police Department were suspended without pay for 30 days on Thursday for calling Customs and Border Protection agents on two separate occasions that resulted in the agents taking suspects into federal custody.

A Detroit Police sergeant and officer were accused by Detroit Police Chief Todd Bettison of breaking department policy when they called Border Patrol agents during traffic stops on December 16 and February 9, ABC’s Detroit affiliate WXYZ reported. Bettison pushed to fire the officers, but the Board of Police Commissioners voted on Thursday to suspend the cops without pay. The officers were initially suspended with pay on February 12.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement responded to the development and told the suspended officers in a post on X, “We have a place for you, patriots.” Under its message, ICE posted the link to where people can apply to work for the agency.

While Detroit has not officially declared itself a “sanctuary city” for illegal immigrants, it effectively acts as on as the police are prohibited from cooperating with federal immigration agents. During the incident earlier this month, Detroit Police sergeant Denise Wallet was called to assist an officer who was dealing with a person who could not speak English. According to Chief Bettison, the sergeant called Border Patrol to help with translation services instead of using the police department’s translation service line.

Wallet, who has been with the department for 27 years, sued the city after she was suspended. In a complaint, Wallet said that she contacted Border Patrol simply to identify the suspect, “not to enforce immigration law or to inquire into the subject’s immigration status,” Michigan Advance reported. Wallet’s action was discovered by the police department during a bodycam audit, which showed the sergeant make “a verbal comment expressing her disagreement with the DPD policy regarding immigration and collaboration with the federal government.”

In the complaint, Wallet argues that the police department’s policy violates federal law, which states that “no state or local government entity or official may prohibit or restrict any government entity or official from sending to, or receiving from, federal immigration authorities information regarding the citizenship or immigration status of any individual.” Wallet also argues that her due process rights were violated since she was suspended without being given an opportunity to defend herself.

Leftist Michigan Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib praised Chief Bettison for punishing the police officers.

“Chief Bettison and I agree that we need to make sure that our community and our residents trust the people who are trying to keep us safe,” Tlaib said.

Michigan House Republican leader Matt Hall, however, said that the Detroit Police Department’s action could prompt the state House to review the department’s policies, saying that firing the officers would be “unacceptable,” The Detroit News reported.

After the board voted on Thursday to suspend the officers without pay, Bettison said he would no longer pursue firing the officers.

“This incident should make it clear, however, that as Chief, I will continue to vigorously enforce DPD’s policies,” he added.

While Detroit has not seen the same surge in federal immigration operations that cities like Minneapolis and Chicago have experienced, ICE agents routinely arrest suspected illegal immigrants in the Motor City and surrounding area.

If the word 'tariffs'' confuses you, this excellent article should answer your questions.

 

Tariff Decision: Setback or Boon?

This week, Punch the monkey made some new friends. And oh yeah... the Supreme Court came out with something about tariffs. 

Clarice Feldman | February 22, 2026 www.americanthinker.com

Will this week’s Supreme Court decision limit the use of tariffs as a foreign policy tool of presidents, or did it set up a firewall against future leftist chief executives while allowing this president to continue to utilize other means to the same end? Is the decision momentous or of little consequence?

A lot of attention this week was focused on Alysia Liu’s stunning Olympic performance and the tale of a baby monkey in a Japanese zoo (name Anglicized to “Punch”). Punch was abandoned by his mother, had been raised and bonded to his caretakers, who needed to integrate him into the monkey troop, which rejected him. Noticing his distress and the bullying he was receiving, the keepers gifted him a large orangutan doll, which he hugged and carried everywhere. Finally, he found a foster mom to hug and playmates, and all is well at the zoo.

In the meantime, the Supreme Court, after months of consideration, resolved 6-3 against the Administration in one of the two consolidated cases: Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump and Trump v. V.O.S. Solutions. In the first case, the Court denied that the federal district court had jurisdiction, ruling that the Court of International Trade had exclusive jurisdiction of tariff disputes. 

The main and dissenting opinions are very lengthy, but the case, at a minimum, holds that the IEEPA (International Emergency Economic Powers Act), which was the basis for the challenge in the V.O.S. case, cannot be used to raise revenue.

Justice Clarence Thomas strongly objected: “It’s the same basic statutory construction that Nixon used in his day to levy tariffs. And nobody at the time questioned the meaning of those words. So again, the Supreme Court is torturing the plain meaning of the statute. It’s a shameful thing.”

But except for constitutional scholars, most of us are more curious about the impact of the ruling, and for many, it is inconsequential and may even strengthen Trump’s hand.

Plan B

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent quickly announced that the administration was prepared for this eventuality and was acting to continue the tariffs:

“This administration will invoke alternative legal authorities to replace the IEEPA tariffs. We will be leveraging Section 232 and Section 301 tariff authorities that have been validated through thousands of legal challenges. Treasury’s estimates show that the use of Section 122 authority combined with potentially enhanced Section 232 and Section 301 tariffs will result in virtually unchanged tariff revenue in 2026.”

Stephen Miller confirmed this:

STEPHEN MILLER UNLEASHES: "As horrendous as the Supreme Court ruling was, as poorly as it reflects on John Roberts' court and the continued TORTURING of our statutes and our constitution, here's the good news!"

"The court also affirmed the president has the authority under section 301, section 232, section 122, section 338, and many other provisions of federal law, that the president can levy tariffs on foreign nations."

"So his program will not only be fully reconstituted, but it will be EXPANDED." 

"The Supreme Court also affirmed that under IEEPA, the president has authority to restrict, impede, deny, license, or even fully embargo any foreign trade."

"So the net result of all this is we're going to keep and grow the tariffs to bring back American manufacturing, which keeps prices low by incentivizing products to be made here in America."

"But it also means that President Trump has even more tools when it comes to dealing with foreign countries that undermine our security." @StephenM

The IEEPA was obviously chosen by the Administration as it was a fast way to impose tariffs. By contrast, Section 232 requires a prior Commerce Department investigation. It should come as no surprise to those who marvel at the competence of the Administration that during the long delay between the filing in the Supreme Court and the decision this week, Commerce did conduct such an investigation.

Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 empowers the U.S. President to impose tariffs, quotas, or other trade restrictions on imports deemed to threaten national security.

Following a Department of Commerce investigation (maximum 270 days), the President has broad discretion to determine what constitutes a "national security" threat and to act, with no legal cap on the tariff rate. 

Key Aspects of Section 232 Powers:

• Broad Scope: The term "national security" is not strictly defined by the statute, allowing for expansive interpretation to cover various sectors.
• Trigger Mechanism: Requires an investigation by the Secretary of Commerce into whether specific imports impair national security.
• Actions Authorized: The President may impose tariffs (no upper limit), quotas, or negotiate agreements to limit imports.
• Application: These measures are applied by sector, not as a universal import tax, and can be used to protect industries like steel, aluminum, automobiles, and minerals.

Buzz Patterson

Trump is brilliant. Anticipating all along that the initial tariffs wouldn’t stand eventual scrutiny, the Department of Commerce, Howard Lutnick, started the required review on day one and the 270 day review has been satisfied. It’s a done deal. Go home, Gavin. And take your ball. @GavinNewsom

The decision really does seem inconsequential as it affects trade and revenue:

Given that the mess of a Supreme Court opinion rejecting Trump’s IEEPA tariffs nonetheless leaves the door wide open for Trump to immediately re-implement the tariffs by different means and under different authorities, I think MacBeth has the best description of the Roberts decision: A walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Rebates

Well, you might ask, will the $200 billion in tariffs paid under a mistaken interpretation of law be refunded, to whom, and how? I assume this matter will have to be decided by the Court of International Trade, which, as SCOTUS just announced, has jurisdiction of the case. The Hill has some ideas:

Justice Brett Kavanaugh dealt with the problem directly in his forceful dissent. He criticized the majority for its silence on whether or how such refunds would be made. Most pointedly, Kavanaugh noted that the federal government “may be required to refund billions of dollars to importers who paid the… tariffs, even though some importers may have already passed on costs to consumers or others.”

In other words, importers could be double-compensated if they are repaid, since, in many cases, the public paid for the tariffs in the form of higher prices. That is precisely what Democrats have been arguing for months, claiming that prices were raised to cover the added cost of the tariffs.

Trump could therefore further force the issue by offering to pay the money directly to taxpayers as a tariff bonus as part of legislation that would ratify the tariffs. Would Democrats vote against such checks for average citizens? 

Even if Congress does nothing, this will take years to sort out. In the meantime, the administration has already utilized the other tariff powers recognized by the court.

But as it affects future executives, it is very consequential.

Jeff Childers contends the president’s fury at the decision was a performative display. In fact, he got everything he could have hoped for:

When Gorsuch asked him about the peril of future presidents, the DOJ’s lawyer -- Trump’s lawyer-- agreed. If IEEPA allows Trump tariffing, then a future Democrat president could also use it, for whatever insane progressive agenda they felt like, just by declaring a “state of emergency…”

The Firewall. And that, as they say, was that. The ambiguously worded statute was a disaster waiting to happen [snip] When they stripped tariffs from IEEPA, Justices Gorsuch, Roberts, and Barrett weren’t betraying Trump. They were protecting America from the next Democrat president -- a Warren or Newsom -- declaring a climate emergency and using IEEPA to impose the Green New Deal by fiat.

So they built a firewall.

And so here’s where we are: while the Court slowly considered it, it let President Trump use IEEPA for almost 8 months to get his Tariff Dashboard up and humming. [snip] Trump got to do it since he launched Liberation Day. But now the IEEPA store is closed, and nobody else can ever use it like Trump did. According to a quick Yale calculation by yesterday’s close of business, after Trump’s new executive order, the average tariff only dropped from 16.9% to 15.4%.

In other words, Trump was ready. The SCOTUS decision barely registered on the needle. That was just the first disappointment Democrats haven’t yet grappled with. There were more. [snip] 

The Shield for Trump. The three rock-ribbed conservatives, Thomas, Alito, and Kavanaugh, wrote spirited dissents pre-empting Democrats from complaining that Trump’s use of IEEPA was ‘totally illegal’ and unconstitutional. [snip]

Instead of a weaponized decision rebuking Trump as an out-of-control dictator, Democrats got a 6-3 split with a 40-page dissent explaining exactly why the 2025-26 tariffs could have -- in good faith -- been considered legal. Womp womp.

The dissenters handed Trump an ironclad rhetorical shield to deflect Democratic criticism over his first eight months of IEEPA tariffs.

[snip]

The Machete. The majority’s legal reason for chopping out IEEPA’s tariff power was actually another gift to conservatives -- a sharpened machete. Since 2022 or so, the Court has been sharpening a legal rule called the “Major Questions Doctrine” (MQD), which basically says the Executive Branch can’t just ‘read between the lines’ or ‘fill in the gaps’ of statutes, even if they are badly written or ambiguous.

MQD is widely considered a revolutionary tool that could finally clear the ungovernable wilderness of the administrative state -- a goal conservatives have longed for since the FDR days.

Even sharper after yesterday’s decision, MQD provides that if a statute doesn’t say something, executive agencies like the EPA or CDC can’t regulate into existence what are essentially new laws. [snip]

In short, Major Questions says federal agencies can’t just claim jurisdiction over the water in your backyard bird feeder and call it law. Revolutionary, I know.

Had yesterday’s decision swung the other way, had SCOTUS let Trump extrapolate tariffs from IEEPA, it would have undermined the terrific MQD machete, which is one of the Roberts Court’s most important restrictions on future Democrat presidents. After this decision, the MQD is even stronger. Swing away, boys.

All in all, not a bad week. Alysia Liu won the gold, Punch was adopted by another monkey and accepted by the troop, Trump gets his tariffs, and future presidents and their executive agencies can no longer manufacture jurisdiction over matters Congress never granted them.

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