When you see chaos in our streets, like you’re now seeing in Minneapolis, it’s only natural to sell it short. To shrug your shoulders and dismiss it as mere chaos. Real chaos, after all, lacks order and organization, and that’s certainly what this looks like.

Looks, though, can be deceiving. What we’re seeing in Minneapolis is both organized and purposeful — organized by the Left and purposefully designed to wreck the United States.

Investigative journalist Peter Schweizer lays this out in his new book, The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon.

Schweizer rightly credits President Donald Trump with having sealed off our southern border, but he notes that our focus has been mostly on the economic, cultural, and criminal aspects of mass illegal immigration. Schweizer agrees that these are all important issues, but he focuses on another, more fundamental aspect of this scourge that brings together otherwise unaffiliated groups in a common cause: weaponizing immigration to kneecap the most powerful nation on earth — or, to put it in more deceptively familiar terms, “fundamentally transforming the United States of America.”

As Schweizer put it last night in an interview with Fox News’s Mark Levin, this weaponization “is how foreign adversaries and neighbors like Mexico, or countries like China or like the Muslim Brotherhood, are using mass migration as a political weapon against us” — whether they come from the failed state of Mexico or from Communist China or from Muslim Somalia. “They are bringing with them not only themselves, their family, and their culture. They’re also bringing with them political networks, and these political networks are hostile to the United States.”

We have sealed the border, which is vitally important. But these networks and these radicals continue to operate inside the United States … and they are responsible for a lot of the chaos in our streets — the violent anti-ICE protests, the other protests that we’ve seen taking place. This is an organized effort to undermine America. So we need to think not just about immigration as an issue, but about weaponized immigration and how our foreign adversaries are using it against us.

But don’t take Schweizer’s word for it. Here’s how one Mexican official, a top aide of leftist Mexican President Claudia Scheinbaum, put it in an official 2024 Mexican government report: “We already know that the Mexican population in the United States reaches 39.9 million. … We Mexicans are reclaiming our territory.”

When viewed in terms of mass illegal migration and in terms of birthright citizenship, the “theory” part of “replacement theory” becomes a misnomer. There’s no theory to it. It’s happening, and it’s been happening. It’s Replacement Fact.

As Schweizer notes: “The biggest years of naturalization of new immigrants in the United States have all been reelection years for Democrats: 1996 [for Bill Clinton], 2012 for Barack Obama, and 2024 for Joe Biden. Why is that? Because they know that new immigrants tend to vote 80-85% for Democrats. So what they did inside government in those years … is they dumbed down the rules for citizenship, they would ignore hundreds of thousands of documents related to criminal background checks on new immigrants, they wouldn’t worry about language requirements. Why? Because they wanted to mint new voters.”

And here’s the takeaway: “You have this alliance between foreign adversaries who want to undermine the United States, and Democrats who domestically see this as an opportunity for themselves to gain a political advantage. … That’s why they’re fighting so hard in the streets right now: to prevent deportations.”

What are the solutions? First, continue to deport these people. No one should be rewarded for breaking the laws of our land. And second, dry up their incentives for coming here and for staying here, starting with the immigration loophole that allows so-called refugees to begin soaking up American taxpayer welfare as soon as they enter the country, as opposed to having to wait five years like normal immigration law dictates.

This is a mess of our own making. And our adversaries — both here and abroad — are rubbing their palms together with glee as they see what’s happening in Minneapolis.