During a Thursday evening Founders Roundtable event with the Fight Club, author Peter Schweizer suggested a significant reduction in the number of Mexican consulates in the United States—proposing a cut of up to 90 percent. Schweizer argued that consular officials are involved in organizing protests and meddling in U.S. politics.
Schweizer, who authored the book The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon, was responding to a query from a founding member of Fight Club. The member inquired about the potential closure of some consulates allegedly linked to “The Invisible Coup.”
“This is a straightforward process. The president can order it, and the Secretary of State can execute it,” Schweizer stated. “We’ve done this before, like in 2020, when we shut down the Chinese Consulate in Houston, Texas, due to extensive espionage activities. So, yes, it’s entirely feasible.”
Schweizer further elaborated, “Mexico’s argument for maintaining so many consulates is rather amusing. They claim they need to provide services like visas, but much of this is now handled digitally through apps. Meanwhile, their consular officials are busy organizing protests, which is not within their purview.”
Matthew Boyle, News Washington Bureau Chief, then asked Schweizer to compare the number of Mexican consulates in the U.S. to those of other countries.
“Countries like the United Kingdom and China have only six and seven consulates in the U.S., respectively,” Schweizer noted. “In contrast, Mexico has 53, and to give you a sense of scale, there are four Mexican consulates just in Arizona alone. That nearly matches the total number the UK has in the entire country. It’s absurd.”
He added, “As I talked about earlier, they are meddling in our politics. They brag about getting involved with organizations that are resisting the agenda of the president. You can disagree with the agenda of the president, but as a foreign diplomat, you are not supposed to be doing that, and they are. These needs to be shut down, and we need to prevent them from getting involved in our elections and sowing unrest.”
Schweizer also referenced a figure highlighted in The Invisible Coup, a Mexican official named Alejandro Robles.
“One of the figures in the book that I highlight is a guy named Alejandra Robles, who apparently lives in Ontario, California. He sits in the Chamber of Deputies, their parliament in Mexico, even though he lives in Ontario, California, and he was a senior Morena party official in the United States,” Schweizer stated.
“In 2025 he was going on video chats with other officials, bragging that he was going around the country ‘organizing the militancy.’ That was his phrase, organizing the militancy to resist Trump? Well, great, if you’re a private citizen, do what you want, but not if you’re a foreign Mexican government official. This stuff needs to stop and needs to be prevented,” he remarked.
“And the only way to do that is drastically cut back, I would say, by 90% the number of consulates that Mexico has in the country.”
Schweizer’s The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list and is available to purchase here.
