State Department Says Remigration, Not Replacement Migration

Throughout both of his terms, President Donald Trump has stood firm on immigration control, perhaps even more so this time around after four years under the Biden administration and the open border policies of the Democrats. President Joe Biden and his staff worked with the United Nations under the Global Compact on Migration and managed to move nearly ten million migrants into America’s neighborhoods. The State Department says no more to a globalized pro-migration scheme and promises to instead work on helping migrants remigrate home.

Remigration, Not Replacement Migration

The US did not participate in the second International Migration Review Forum held earlier this month, and the State Department said it will not support the declaration in a tweet:

“The United States objects to the Global Compact on Migration and U.N. efforts to facilitate replacement migration to the United States and our Western allies. For the citizens of Western nations, mass migration was never safe. It introduced new security threats, imposed financial strains, and undermined the cohesion of our societies… Under President Trump, the State Department will facilitate remigration — not replacement migration.”

In short, the goal of the Forum and the UN’s Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration is to improve migration, making it safer and easier for those relocating. A message from António Guterres, UN Secretary-General, proclaims that “migration is being distorted by fear and misfortune. Migrants are scapegoated for political gain. Dehumanized in public discourse. And denied their rights and dignity.” He further states that migration is not the crisis, instead it “is the world’s collective failure to manage it together.”

The idea behind the collective is that no country can handle the migration problem alone, and together, member states help to expand regular pathways, improve search-and-rescue, and support safer return and reintegration.

Every four years, this Forum provides an opportunity to measure progress, confront challenges honestly, and sharpen priorities for the road ahead. Trump ended US participation during his first term in 2017, and the Global Compact was adopted in 2018 after the US withdrew from the process. This year’s Forum was scheduled to produce an agreed “Progress Declaration,” which the US denied. The State Department’s statement reads:

“As Secretary [Marco] Rubio said, opening our doors to mass migration was a grave mistake that threatens the cohesion of our societies and the future of our peoples. In recent years, Americans witnessed first-hand how mass immigration laid waste to our communities: crime and chaos at the border, states of emergency in major cities, and billions of taxpayer dollars funneled towards hotels, plane tickets, cell phones and cash cards for migrants.”

Furthermore, the department lays the blame at the UN’s feet. “Much of this was driven by UN agencies and their partners, which did not just facilitate the invasion of our country, but proceeded to redistribute our own people’s wealth and resources to millions of foreigners from the worst corners of the world.”

While US and European citizens were calling for stricter immigration policies, UN officials were facilitating mass migration, Breitbart reported. UN officials reportedly handed out maps to migrants headed to the US, showing pathways through the deadly Darien Pass, where many migrants died. While the agency continued to move migrants into the country, they condemned the deportation of illegal immigrants.

“There is also much evidence that the U.N.’s pro-migration policies are wrecking the development of poor nations and societies by extracting their human resources for use by U.S. investors,” Breitbart explained. “This post-1990 colonialization-like immigration policy has severely damaged nations such as Haiti and Nicaragua.”

The US has been fighting illegal immigration on all fronts, and now it continues to do so against the UN agency. “President Trump is focused on the interests of Americans, not foreigners or globalist bureaucrats,” reads the State Department’s statement. “The United States will not support a process that imposes, overtly or by stealth, guidelines, standards, or commitments that constrain the American people’s sovereign, democratic right to make decisions in the best interests of our country.”

The US wants to help people migrate back to their own countries, or remigrate, not aid in sending more to America as the UN does through replacement migration.

The immigration debate continues to be a hotbed of contention. It is a larger fight over sovereignty, national identity, and who gets to decide a country’s future – citizens and elected officials or international organizations. Most can agree that migration can be a very dangerous endeavor and that trying to prevent human trafficking and other crimes is a necessity. However, mass migration policies strain communities and the bill is passed to the taxpayers. But as more Americans and Europeans demand tighter borders and accountability, governments may find that voters are less interested in global promises and far more concerned with what is happening in their own neighborhoods.