"Your country? How came it yours? Would America have been America without her (Black) people?"

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...this week, the Department of Homeland Security drew pushback for a post that was just one word: remigrate.

Homeland Security @DHSgov
Remigrate.

The term “remigration” has traditionally been used in Europe to refer to the mass deportation of non-white immigrants. It has been used by right-winged politicians such as Austria’s Herbert Kickl and Germany’s Alice Weidel of the right-wing populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. The term has also been popularized by the Austrian, millennial far-right influencer Martin Sellner.

“In Europe, it's an established part of the linguistic toolbox of white supremacy,” Nicholas J. Cull, a professor of communication at the University of Southern California, tells TIME.

When asked for comment on its post from Tuesday, Tricia McLaughlin, a Homeland Security spokesperson, responded in an email, “Is the English language too difficult for you?” The message was followed by a Collins English Dictionary definition of the word “remigrate.”

The DHS post seems to be a nod to the efforts of the State Department to create an “Office of Remigration,” the plans for which were rolled out through a proposal in May that called for an overhaul of the agency that would cut a series of programs and reduce domestic staffing. The details of the plan are outlined in a 136-page document that the State Department sent to six Congressional Committees. The document says the Office of Remigration will “actively facilitate the voluntary return of migrants to their country of origin or legal status.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trump-administration-embraces-word-used-by-white-nationalists/ar-AA1OC4nM

MJ: Trump Could Soon Make America’s Refugee Program a Tool for White Nationalism

After bringing white South Africans to the United States as refugees earlier this year, the Trump administration is now reportedly considering granting protection to members of far-right European parties.

According to the New York Times, the proposal that President Donald Trump is now weighing would prioritize Europeans who are allegedly “targeted for peaceful expression of views online such as opposition to mass migration or support for ‘populist’ political parties.” The program would also give preference to English speakers and more white South Africans. The paper reports that officials from the Departments of State and Homeland Security presented the plans, which are still under consideration, to the White House in April and July.

At the same time, DHS is calling on social media for people to “Remigrate,” a far-right, anti-immigrant term popularized in Europe that the Associated Press has described as a “chilling notion of returning immigrants to their native lands in what amounts to a soft-style ethnic cleansing.” The Trump administration is not only considering offering refuge to right-wing Europeans; it is looking to them for inspiration.

The Times reported that the language about granting refugee status to Europeans “targeted” for supporting “populist” parties appears to refer to members of Alternative for Germany, the hard-right German political party known as the AfD. Vice President JD Vance has defended the party and met with its leader while in Europe earlier this year.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/germany-afd-refugee-white-nationalism-migraiton-trump-south-africa/

___Amid outrage at DHS’ use of a phrase popularized by far-right extremists, the California governor’s press office reposted the tweet with a reminder of President Donald Trump’s ancestry and a single-word reply: “Please.”

“Your country? How came it yours? Before the Pilgrims landed we were here. Here we have brought our three gifts and mingled them with yours: a gift of story and song—soft, stirring melody in an ill-harmonized and unmelodious land; the gift of sweat and brawn to beat back the wilderness, conquer the soil, and lay the foundations of this vast economic empire two hundred years earlier than your weak hands could have done it; the third, a gift of the Spirit. Around us the history of the land has centred for thrice a hundred years; out of the nation's heart we have called all that was best to throttle and subdue all that was worst; fire and blood, prayer and sacrifice, have billowed over this people, and they have found peace only in the altars of the God of Right. Nor has our gift of the Spirit been merely passive. Actively we have woven ourselves with the very warp and woof of this nation,—we fought their battles, shared their sorrow, mingled our blood with theirs, and generation after generation have pleaded with a headstrong, careless people to despise not Justice, Mercy, and Truth, lest the nation be smitten with a curse. Our song, our toil, our cheer, and warning have been given to this nation in blood-brotherhood. Are not these gifts worth the giving? Is not this work and striving? Would America have been America without her (Black) people?”

__W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk