Overview
- The directive instructs U.S. embassies across the Western Hemisphere to report crimes and human-rights violations tied to mass migration.
- Diplomatic missions are to press regional governments to combat abuses and to review policies that may facilitate migration or privilege migrants over citizens.
- In posts on X, the department said millions of migrants and deadly drugs have moved along routes run by terror organizations.
- Officials asserted that groups facilitating mass migration engage in child trafficking, forced labor, sexual assault, and other egregious abuses.
- The United States signaled readiness to work with hemisphere partners to curb migration flows, describing the situation as a global crisis.