Did you know that the U.S. government has an agency called the “Office of Remigration”? In case you’re unfamiliar with the term “remigration,” it’s typically used by white nationalists to describe the mass expulsion of nonwhite immigrants, done in the quest to ethnically cleanse “Western” countries. It’s mostly a European term, but Trump himself employed the phrase “reverse migration” last year, mainstreaming “remigration” on the American right—and true to its name, the office now helps facilitate mass removals in some very dark and sordid ways, reported The New Republic.
So let’s lay down a marker: If Democrats take over the
House and/or the Senate, they should make it their business next year to ensure
that this agency faces truly withering scrutiny. As many Americans as possible
should know what their government is doing in their name.
The Office of Remigration, after all, has mostly
managed to remain a very low-profile, poorly understood affair. It’s housed
inside the State Department, where its roughly 15 employees toil in anonymity
inside a vast bureaucracy, unnoticed by just about all Americans.
But a blockbuster Washington Post investigation just flushed the Office of Remigration’s activities out into the
light. Relying on a series of leaked documents, the Post reports that at
Stephen Miller’s direction, the agency is effectively paying out huge sums of
taxpayer money to some really nasty governments in exchange for their
acceptance of third-country deportees who, for various reasons, cannot be
returned to their countries of origin.
It’s really sleazy, ghoulish stuff. The administration
has authorized or pledged over $400 million for such agreements with more than
30 countries, mostly in Africa and Latin America. As the Post reports, the
deals place many migrants in countries to which they have no previous
connections, and are structured to skirt “human rights safeguards” that
typically are built into U.S. foreign assistance payments abroad.
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