Defund the Office of Remigration and Expose Its Abuses

You need to use Congress's power of the purse to defund the Office of Remigration and drag its operations into the open. This agency — housed inside the State Department's Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration — has spent over $400 million in taxpayer money paying authoritarian governments to accept deportees who have no ties whatsoever to those countries. A Washington Post investigation based on leaked documents confirmed that these deals are deliberately structured to skirt human rights safeguards, with minimal oversight over how migrants are treated once handed over to some of the world's worst regimes. The name "remigration" is not incidental. It's a term with explicit white nationalist roots, meaning the mass expulsion of nonwhite people to ethnically cleanse Western countries. Senior State Department officials objected to the name and were overruled. That tells you everything about the intent. Meanwhile, the only refugees we're actively welcoming right now are white South Africans, based on a fabricated genocide claim. The pattern is unmistakable. A federal appeals court has already ruled these third-country deportations unlawfully violate due process. Now is the moment to act. Vote to bar all funding for this office, pass legislation requiring deportee consent before third-country removal, and subpoena the officials running this program to answer for it publicly.

First sent on September 23 by Progressive Action