The Trump administration has quietly created a State Department Office of Remigration to funnel payments to foreign governments for accepting deportees, operating with minimal oversight and using a term promoted by far-right extremists.
The United States Department of State has established an Office of Remigration , a move that expands the Trump administration's aggressive immigration enforcement agenda. Details about the office's founding, staffing, and specific operations remain opaque.
When WIRED sought comment, the State Department declined to provide specifics on the office or its activities. According to a source familiar with the office's work, its primary function is to process payments, potentially totaling tens of millions of dollars, to facilitate the deportation of immigrants to countries that are not necessarily their countries of origin. This process is reportedly conducted with little to no oversight or accountability.
The source stated that office leadership explicitly indicated they were not interested in applying traditional levels of accountability and monitoring to these international payments, a significant departure from standard federal funding management practices. The creation of the Office of Remigration aligns with the administration's broader strategy to dramatically increase pressure on foreign governments, including those with documented histories of corruption, human rights abuses, and trafficking, to accept deportees from the United States.
This policy is a cornerstone of the administration's National Security Strategy, which prioritizes border security and an end to mass migration. A State Department email statement, provided without attribution, framed the office as fulfilling President Trump's promise to "once again make America a country for Americans.
" The term "remigration" itself has been championed by far-right and white nationalist groups in Europe and the US. It promotes the false and extreme idea that Western nations can restore their greatness by forcibly removing all immigrants, including non-citizen residents and even assimilated citizens of immigrant background. Critics equate the concept with ethnic cleansing.
Congresswoman Lois Frankel, a ranking member of a House appropriations subcommittee, condemned the effort as "inhumane and coercive," noting it targets individuals without criminal records and pressures other nations through threats of tariffs, visa restrictions, and aid cuts. The term gained prominence when President Trump and senior adviser Stephen Miller used it in social media posts before the 2024 election. While Trump did not repeat the term publicly in the early days of his second term, its use continued internally.
A congressional notification stated the Office of Remigration would be initially staffed by personnel reassigned from the State Department's Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs. A source within that bureau described confusion and a lack of clarification from leadership about the reassignments and the term's meaning. By mid-2025, Trump referenced "remigration" on Truth Social, tying it to ICE's deportation operations. The source added that office leadership had repeatedly requested the terminology be changed but were overruled.
By the end of 2025, the office began processing government-to-government payments for deals negotiated by the administration to accept deportees, marking the transition from rhetoric to operationalized policy with minimal transparency
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