Trump is waging a silent war on legal immigration

"When the member states of the United Nations reviewed their Global Compact on Migration earlier this month, one country was conspicuously absent from the discussions: the United States. In a post on X explaining its reasoning, the State Department said it objects to global “efforts to facilitate replacement migration to the United States and our Western allies.” A subsequent post clarified that President Donald Trump’s administration supports “remigration - but not replacement migration.”"

"If “replacement migration” sounds like a dogwhistle, that’s because it’s one the administration’s loudest ones yet. Such allusions to the “great replacement” - a far-right conspiracy theory that a cabal of global elites is importing people of color to the US as a means of demographic warfare - and support of remigration, the notion that immigrants and their descendants should be returned to their countries of origin regardless of citizenship voluntarily or otherwise, were once limited to the fringes of the far right."

"Now they are coming from the government itself. (Elon Musk, a longtime proponent of the great replacement theory, applauded the State Department’s “banger thread.”) Eliminating “replacement migration” and pushing “remigration” are hallmarks of Trump"

The United States was absent from United Nations discussions reviewing the Global Compact on Migration. The State Department stated the U.S. objects to efforts to facilitate replacement migration to the United States and Western allies. A clarification said the Trump administration supports remigration but not replacement migration. Replacement migration is framed as a dogwhistle tied to the “great replacement” conspiracy theory about elites importing people of color for demographic warfare. The concept of remigration is described as returning immigrants and their descendants to countries of origin regardless of citizenship, voluntarily or otherwise. The piece links these ideas to far-right immigration positions and notes government endorsement rather than fringe use.

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