Mother Jones - Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that the Trump administration had taken new steps towards “building an America First State Department” by notifying Congress of a “reorganization plan.” The massive overhaul, first proposed in April, will reportedly downsize or eliminate hundreds of bureaus and offices; cut thousands of domestic civil service and foreign service jobs; and redirect the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor to focus on “Democracy and Western Values.”
A small but noteworthy part of this shake-up at the State Department should raise particular alarm: a plan to create an “Office of Remigration.”
As Mother Jones reported previously, the term “remigration” is rooted in the debunked Great Replacement theory and favored by the European far-right and White nationalist extremists. It calls for the forcible repatriation or mass expulsion of non-ethnically European immigrants and their descendants, regardless of immigration status or citizenship, and an end to multiculturalism. In 2019, the Associated Press described remigration as the “chilling notion of returning immigrants to their native lands in what amounts to a soft-style ethnic cleansing.”
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