The Trump administration is establishing an Office of Remigration as part of a comprehensive overhaul of the State Department. Remigration is an extremist-supported immigration policy that advocates for the expulsion of all migrants, including “non-assimilated” citizens, in order to establish white ethnostates in Western nations.
Last week, the Trump administration formally informed Congress of its intentions to restructure the State Department in a number of ways, one of which may involve creating an office dedicated to repatriating U.S.-based migrants to their home countries. As he moves forward with a comprehensive reorganisation of the State Department, initially announced in April, Secretary of State Marco Rubio is leading a number of reforms.
According to Reuters’ analysis of the May 29 congressional notification, it would also restructure or abolish 300 of the department’s 734 bureaus and offices, slash thousands of jobs, and refocus the agency’s human rights bureau on “Western values.”
In Focus: The Office of Remigration
According to the outlets, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Migration Matters would oversee the three new “functional offices” that would be created from the current Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, including the proposed Office of Remigration. As stated in the report, the three new offices will “actively facilitate the voluntary return of migrants to their country of origin or legal status.”
According to a copy examined by WIRED, the State Department sent a 136-page notification document outlining the plan to six Congressional committees, including the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the House Foreign Affairs and Appropriations Committees, for approval by July 1.
The document states that the Office of Remigration will be the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration’s central point for tracking repatriations and handling immigration-related matters. “It will offer a policy platform for intra-agency policy work to further the President’s immigration agenda as well as for interagency coordination on removals and repatriations with DHS and other agencies.”
One of the main goals of remigration ideology, according to the notification, is for the Office of Remigration “to also actively facilitate the voluntary return of migrants to their country of origin or legal status.”
The Term and Its Dark Connotation
The suggested name is based on a phrase that is becoming more and more linked in Europe to the far-right and the rise of ethnonationalist immigration sentiments, particularly in Germany and Austria, which advocate for the mass deportation of immigrants who are mainly non-white. It has become a colloquial term for policies that advocate for the mass, violent deportation of migrants and have been adopted by neo-Nazi activists, right-wing parties, and extremists in Europe.
The Handbasket and Reuters were the first to report on the document, which also details significant changes to the US diplomatic services, such as the creation of a new deputy assistant secretary position to supervise “Democracy and Western Values” and the removal of a large portion of the Democracy, Human Rights, and Labour Bureau.
Typical Trump Fashion: Outrageous in Substance, Fully Committed in Execution
Wendy Via, president and CEO of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism told WIRED, “It’s outrageous.” “The fact that ethnic cleansing is the sole purpose of’remigration’ cannot be concealed. When proponents of “remigration” attribute the term’s normalisation to the United States and the Trump administration, it is a bad day for our nation.
President Donald Trump mentioned the word “remigration” last September when outlining his immigration policy plans, but it doesn’t seem like he has used it in public since taking office.
Trump posted on X, saying, “As President, I will immediately end the migrant invasion of America.” “We will suspend refugee resettlement, revoke deportation immunity, stop all migrant flights, stop all illegal entries, terminate the Kamala phone app for illegal smuggling (CBP One App), and remigrate Kamala’s illegal migrants back to their home countries.”
Rubio said in a statement the day the notification was sent to Congress that the plan would make the State Department more “agile” and reduce the size of a department that he claimed had become more bureaucratic and expensive without producing any results.
