Overview

• A 100-page notice to Congress outlines the creation of an Office of Remigration to centralize interagency coordination on immigrant removals and repatriations.
• The new office would sit within the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration and serve as a hub for tracking voluntary and forced migrant returns.
• The reorganization plan calls for deeper domestic staffing cuts than previously floated and proposes eliminating divisions overseeing Afghan ally resettlement.
• Critics warn that the term “remigration” carries connotations of far-right ethnic cleansing campaigns promoted by parties such as Germany’s AfD and Austria’s Freedom Party.
• Former President Trump and adviser Stephen Miller have publicly invoked “remigration” in calls to return millions of undocumented migrants to their home countries.