The Trump Administration Wants to Create an ‘Office of Remigration’

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As portion of a sweeping reorganization of nan State Department, nan Trump management is creating an Office of Remigration. Remigration is an migration argumentation embraced by extremists that calls for nan removal of each migrants—including “non-assimilated” citizens—with nan extremity of creating achromatic ethnostates successful Western countries.

The specifications of nan scheme are contained successful a 136-page notification archive sent by nan State Department to six Congressional commitees—including nan House Foreign Affairs and Appropriations Committees and nan Senate Foreign Relations Committee—for support by July 1, according to a transcript reviewed by WIRED.

“The Office of Remigration will service arsenic nan [Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration]’s hub for migration issues and repatriation tracking,” nan archive reads. “It will supply a argumentation level for interagency coordination pinch DHS and different agencies connected removals/repatriations, and for intra-agency argumentation activity to beforehand nan President’s migration agenda.”

The notification says that nan Office of Remigration “will besides actively facilitate nan voluntary return of migrants to their state of root aliases ineligible status,” which is simply a cardinal purpose of remigration ideology.

The document, which was first reported connected by Reuters and The Handbasket, besides outlines melodramatic changes to nan US negotiated services, including nan elimination of overmuch of nan Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Bureau, and nan summation of a caller lawman adjunct caput position to oversee “Democracy and Western Values.”

“The Department of State is notifying Congress of its intent to reorganize nan Department’s home operations, including much than 300 bureaus and offices, to refocus connected halfway U.S. overseas argumentation objectives and nan needs of modern diplomacy,” states nan document’s introduction.

The State Department and nan White House did not instantly respond to requests for remark connected nan creation of nan Office of Remigration.

“It's outrageous,” Wendy Via, CEO and president of nan Global Project Against Hate and Extremism, tells WIRED. “There is nary hiding from nan truth that nan eventual extremity of ‘remigration’ is purely astir taste cleansing. It is simply a unspeakable time for our state erstwhile ‘remigration’ proponents are crediting nan US and Trump's management for normalizing nan term.”

Though President Donald Trump does not look to person utilized nan word “remigration” publically since taking office, he did reference it past September while discussing his migration argumentation plans.

“As President I will instantly extremity nan migrant penetration of America,” Trump wrote connected X. “We will extremity each migrant flights, extremity each forbidden entries, terminate nan Kamala telephone app for smuggling illegals (CBP One App), revoke deportation immunity, suspend exile resettlement, and return Kamala’s forbidden migrants to their location countries (also known arsenic remigration).”

This was quickly backed up by Stephen Miller, a adjacent Trump advisor seen arsenic nan designer of nan administration’s migration policies, who wrote connected X: “THE TRUMP PLAN TO END THE INVASION OF SMALL TOWN AMERICA: REMIGRATION!”

While remigration is apt an chartless word for astir Americans, it has been gaining important traction successful Europe. In caller years, nan argumentation of remigration has go celebrated among far-right and populist politicians successful Europe.