Comments

You have commented 375 times on Rantburg.

Your Name

Your e-mail (optional)

Website (optional)

	My Original Nic Pic-a-Nic Sorry. Comments have been closed on this article.
Foto

Submit your comments on this article

Caribbean-Latin America

The Reconquista: How Mexico is weaponizing illegal immigration to punish the United States

2026-01-21

[JustTheNews] 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. There are many in positions of power who share some version of that vision.

Editors Note: The following are excerpts from award-winning investigative journalist Peter Schweizer's new book "The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon."

The book examines the role of China and Mexico in encouraging illegal immigration to the United States and the allies on U.S. soil that they are working with.

These excerpts are gleaned from the chapters entitled "Mexico’s Reconquista of the US Is Real."

In February 2023, José Gerardo Rodolfo Fernández Noroña, a member of the Mexican parliament for President Claudia Sheinbaum’s ruling Morena party, stood on the floor of the Congreso de la Union and calmly declared that California, Texas, and New Mexico were, among other parcels, “occupied territories.”

He went on to say that Mexico “should review this dispossession and once again demand the recovery of these territories” from America. These outlandish statements certainly did not hurt his career. In fact, they helped him. A year and a half later, he was elected president of the Mexican Senate. Noroña is not alone.

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. There are many in positions of power who share some version of that vision.

While they may or may not mean the literal territorial rejoining of those territories with Mexico, they very much mean the cultural and political detachment of the American Southwest from the US and transforming it to resemble Mexican civilization.

They hope to accomplish this task by mass migration, preventing the assimilation of migrants in the United States to the American way of life, and organizing them into a political force for Mexico’s benefit. With the help of powerful forces inside the United States, they are well on their way.

Mexico’s political elite are shockingly open about it.

In 2017, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (popularly known as AMLO), then Mexico’s president (and Sheinbaum’s mentor), was walking outside one night surrounded by a cluster of reporters. They were furiously peppering him with questions. One asked him about the mass of migrants who were heading north. AMLO declared that Mexicans living in the United States “are not alone, that we will support you. We will always support each other.”

“Do you think that the Mexicans are reconquering our lands again?” one reporter shouted from the scrum.

“We Mexicans are reconquering our lands again,” AMLO responded with a smile. “Yes, especially because the human rights of migrant workers must be respected.”

For Mexico’s elite, mass migration is not just an economic reality. And the United States is not just a friendly neighbor with which it occasionally clashes. Instead, the US is a rival civilization with opposing values that must be subverted.

As Jorge Nuño Jiménez, a prominent Mexican academic who regularly attends the United Nations Conference, stated in 2024, mass migration is “causing the demographic reconquest in areas that the Americans had forcibly taken from Mexico.”

***

Assimilation is not the preferred path of the Mexican government, which works diligently to ensure other countless migrants don’t follow suit

Alberto Vieyra Gómez, the founding director of the Mexican News Agency (Agencia Mexicana de Noticias), opined in a 2023 article that migrants are “quietly carrying out a reconquest of the territories the US took from us in 1848.”

He warned that once the Americans figured out what was going on, migrants should watch out for “Yankee fundamentalism,” noting that “the reconquest of the Aztec territory is silent, and the day the gringos realize this, this diabolical fundamentalism will become macabre.”

We’ve noticed and are reversing. 2.5 million so far, and more to come… and the only death of note so far is that lesbian Good female. So much for macho predictions.

In 2025, Octavio Paredes López, the former president of the Mexican Academy of Sciences, cheered on subversive migration to the United States. “We are witnessing the greatest peaceful and silent reconquest of our identity that history has ever recorded,” he proclaimed.

***

Reconquista does not necessitate a change in governance or ownership. In the minds of many Mexican leaders, the cultural and political weapon presented by mass migration into the United States is enough to fundamentally transform it.

In July 1997, Mexican president Ernesto Zedillo traveled to Chicago to address the National Council of La Raza, a nonprofit Hispanic organization in the US with considerable political power.

Founded in 1968, La Raza (The Race) began as a militant organization committed to Latino liberation. In 2017, the name was changed to UnidosUS. Domestic activist organizations like this loom large in Mexico’s subversive strategy.

“I have proudly proclaimed that the Mexican nation extends beyond the territory enclosed by its borders,” Zedillo told La Raza members to cheers in the American heartland, “and that Mexican migrants are an important, a very important part of it.”

And Zedillo meant it.

The Mexican government amended the constitution that year to allow Mexicans in the United States who had received their American citizenship to remain Mexican citizens.

As one Mexican congressman explained: “It signifies the recognition that nations are more than concrete, special territorial resources. . . . Belonging to Mexico is fixed in bonds of a cultural and spiritual order, in customs, aspirations and convictions that today are the essence of a universally recognized civilization.”

With millions of Mexicans having migrated to the US before the turn of the millennium, the pro-Mexican ethos was now a growing force inside the United States.

After the US passed a law in 1996 to limit illegal immigration, President Zedillo expressed his belief that the US government does not actually have full sovereignty over Mexicans living in the country. “We will not tolerate foreign forces dictating and enacting laws on Mexicans,” he said, the “foreign forces” being the U.S. federal government.

Posted by:NoMoreBS

#9 comments); ?>werwer

Posted by: trailing wife 2026-01-21 18:24

#8 comments); ?>werwer

Posted by: Abu Uluque 2026-01-21 15:08

#7 comments); ?>werwer

Posted by: 3dc 2026-01-21 12:24

#6 comments); ?>werwer

Posted by: Abu Uluque 2026-01-21 11:24

#5 comments); ?>werwer

Posted by: Skidmark 2026-01-21 10:43

#4 comments); ?>werwer

Posted by: Grom the Affective 2026-01-21 09:40

#3 comments); ?>werwer

Posted by: DarthVader 2026-01-21 08:38

#2 comments); ?>werwer

Posted by: Besoeker 2026-01-21 07:41

#1 comments); ?>werwer

Posted by: Procopius2k 2026-01-21 06:23

00:00