During a special Founders Roundtable with the Breitbart Fight Club, author Peter Schweizer made a blunt argument: the United States should slash the number of Mexican consulates by up to 90 percent because they are interfering in American politics and helping stir up anti-ICE protests. Apparently, diplomacy now includes protest planning—who knew?
Schweizer, author of The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon, responded to a Fight Club member who asked why some of these consulates haven’t already been shut down.
“That can be done easily,” Schweizer said. “The president can direct it. The Secretary of State can carry it out.” He reminded the audience that in 2020, the U.S. closed the Chinese consulate in Houston over espionage concerns. In other words, there is already a playbook for this kind of situation.
He dismissed Mexico’s justification for maintaining such a massive consular footprint, saying their claim that they need to “service” large numbers of people is weak. Visa services, he pointed out, are now largely handled by apps. Meanwhile, consular officials are allegedly organizing protests—something they are not supposed to be doing. Small detail.
Breitbart Washington Bureau Chief Matthew Boyle asked Schweizer to compare Mexico’s consulates to those of other countries. The numbers were eye-opening.
The United Kingdom and China operate six and seven consulates in the United States. Mexico, on the other hand, has 53. In Arizona alone, Mexico has four consulates—nearly as many as Great Britain has in the entire country. As Schweizer put it, “It’s ridiculous.”
Schweizer warned that these officials are not just providing services but actively meddling in U.S. politics. He said they openly brag about working with groups resisting the president’s agenda. Disagreeing with the president is one thing, he noted, but foreign diplomats doing it inside the United States is another.
“These need to be shut down,” he said, adding that the U.S. must prevent foreign officials from getting involved in American elections or fueling unrest.
He also highlighted a figure from his book, a Mexican official named Alejandro Robles. Schweizer said Robles lives in Ontario, California, while serving in Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies and previously held a senior role in the Morena party’s operations in the United States.
According to Schweizer, Robles went on video calls in 2025 boasting that he was traveling around the country “organizing the militancy” to resist President Trump. Schweizer made it clear: if a private citizen wants to protest, that’s one thing. But a foreign government official doing it is unacceptable.
The message was simple and direct: foreign diplomats should not be running political operations on U.S. soil. Closing consulates that cross that line is not radical—it’s common sense.
And in a time when national sovereignty actually matters again, protecting American elections and law enforcement from outside interference is exactly the kind of action that puts the country first.
