The U.S. Department of State has initiated a review of Mexico’s 53 consulates operating within the United States, following heightened concerns about their role in subverting American domestic politics and facilitating mass migration.
According to media reports, the State Department did not specify the scope of the review but confirmed it could lead to the closure of some consulates. In a statement, Assistant Secretary of State for Global Public Affairs Dylan Johnson emphasized that the “Department of State is constantly reviewing all aspects of American foreign relations to ensure they are in line with the President’s America First foreign policy agenda and advance American interests.”
This review comes as scrutiny intensifies over Mexico’s alleged use of its consulates to undermine U.S. sovereignty. In his book The Invisible Coup: How American Elites and Foreign Powers Use Immigration as a Weapon, published earlier this year, investigative journalist Peter Schweizer stated, “Across America, the Mexican government, through its more than fifty consulates, is blatantly interfering in our domestic politics, working with American political advisors to turn legal and illegal migrants inside the U.S. into a political force to wield for their benefit.” Schweizer also called on the Department of State to investigate and close Mexico’s consulates during a February interview.
In that same interview, Schweizer highlighted Mexico’s extensive consulate network, noting, “The United Kingdom and China have six and seven consulates in the United States. Mexico has 53 and, just to put this in context, just in the state of Arizona, they have four consulates. So they have almost as many in the state of Arizona as Great Britain has in the entire United States.”
Despite its public commitments to “mutual respect” in foreign relations, Mexico has consistently taken adversarial actions toward the United States and interfered in American politics. For instance, in 2021, it filed a federal lawsuit seeking accountability for cartel violence in Mexico from U.S. firearms manufacturers—a direct challenge to the Second Amendment. Additionally, Mexican leaders have threatened to intervene directly in American elections, advocated for open-border immigration policies, and campaigned in U.S. cities to mobilize migrants against pro-American immigration measures.
Schweizer further explained that “Mexico’s interest in mass migration results from its hopes of reclaiming or reconquering … the territories it lost to us in the nineteenth century.” Citing senior Mexican officials who have expressed this objective, he described Mexico’s promotion of U.S. migration as “organized political subversion, with people being wielded as tools to undermine our country’s sovereignty.”
American judicial figures are increasingly acknowledging these tactics. Judge James Ho of the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, in a concurring opinion supporting Texas’ anti-illegal-migration Senate Bill 4, noted that “the United States has become one of the most popular targets” of weaponized mass migration originating from Mexico to advance its revanchist goals.