Overview

• The State Department’s 100-page plan sent to Congress on May 30 calls for creating an Office of Remigration as part of a sweeping department overhaul.
• The new office is designed as a central hub for interagency coordination on immigrant removals and repatriations within the Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration.
• Under the proposal, department funds would be used to facilitate the voluntary return of migrants to their countries of origin or legal status.
• The reorganization includes deeper domestic staff cuts than the initially floated 15% reduction and closes offices overseeing Afghanistan partnerships and regional democracy programs.
• Critics warn that adopting the term “remigration” echoes far-right ideologies and serves as a euphemism for ethnic cleansing.