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As part of a sweeping reorganization of the State Department, the Trump administration is creating an Office of Remigration. Remigration is an immigration policy embraced by extremists that calls for the removal of all migrants—including “non-assimilated” citizens—with the goal of creating white ethnostates in Western countries.

The details of the plan are contained in a 136-page notification document sent by the State Department to six Congressional commitees—including the House Foreign Affairs and Appropriations Committees and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee—for approval by July 1, according to a copy reviewed by WIRED.

“The Office of Remigration will serve as the [Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration]’s hub for immigration issues and repatriation tracking,” the document reads. “It will provide a policy platform for interagency coordination with DHS and other agencies on removals/repatriations, and for intra-agency policy work to advance the President’s immigration agenda.”

The notification says that the Office of Remigration “will also actively facilitate the voluntary return of migrants to their country of origin or legal status,” which is a key aim of remigration ideology.

The document, which was first reported on by Reuters and The Handbasket, also outlines dramatic changes to the US diplomatic services, including the elimination of much of the Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Bureau, and the addition of a new deputy assistant secretary position to oversee “Democracy and Western Values.”

  • @A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
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    116 days ago

    That term has been spooking around elsewhere, too. I hate it, it’s such a clinical term for such a nasty thing, almost like “concentration camp”.

      • @A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
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        56 days ago

        Try to strip it of all its baggage (it’s almost impossible) and the word very neutrally describes its function but conveys nothing of the horrors. Same with “remigration”.

        Why do you think I meant something else?

        • @Midnitte@beehaw.org
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          56 days ago

          Why do you think I meant something else?

          Ah, see, the point was that they aren’t something else. Same thing, just different words to try and soften the horridness.

          Meant to highlight our own troubled history, and how this is nothing but trying to recapture that evil.

  • @Etterra@discuss.online
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    56 days ago

    So they’re gonna ship all the white people to Europe? I’m like 9 different 9 flavors of European. Do I get to pick where I’m sent or are they gonna just chop me up and send pieces out based on my ancestry? Because I’m totally cool with that, I just need to get my affairs in order first.

  • @InevitableList@beehaw.org
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    16 days ago

    The notification says that the Office of Remigration “will also actively facilitate the voluntary return of migrants to their country of origin or legal status,” which is a key aim of remigration ideology.

    European countries have been doing this for decades. Britain was buying one way bus tickets for Eastern Europeans 20 years ago. This article was heavy on opinion but light on facts.