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With more than 50 consulates in the U.S. today, Schweizer writes, the Mexican government “is blatantly interfering in our domestic politics, working with American political advisors to turn legal and illegal migrants inside the US into a political force to wield for their benefit.”
Most blatantly, Schweizer notes, former Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) toured American cities in February 2017 with the purpose of rallying Mexican migrants in the U.S. against President Donald Trump’s border policies, which crippled drug cartel profits through strict immigration enforcement.
AMLO, in his attempts to upend Trump’s border policies, went as far as to suggest turning Mexico’s consulates into migrant defense offices, Schweizer writes — an unprecedented level of lobbying by a neighboring nation’s leader against a sitting American president.
“AMLO was not simply aiding migrants in their legal battles in the United States; he was calling for and working toward an electoral change inside the US,” Schweizer writes. “A foreign leader so brazenly interfering in American politics was unprecedented, at least from a country with which the United States was not at war.”
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.”
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.
Anyone who actually knew the history they have rewritten would know this. Spain claimed vast parts of the now United States without ever establishing a presence there. When Mexico gained independence from Spain it claimed everything and didn't establish a presence either. A few Missions don't really count, they just taught the people already living in these lands to wear pants and go to Church. They claimed Texas but had to invite Americans to settle it for them and fight the Comanche and Apache raiders.
Historically Mexico has no moral or legal right to any land currently outside the borders of modern day Mexico.
Using Mexico's reasoning it would be no different than if the United States claimed it owns the Moon.
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