A Vision of Remigration: US Infographics

Thomas Jefferson: author of one of the first American Remigration platforms.

The America of today looks nothing like our Founding Fathers intended. Prior to the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, nobody had ever heard of “a nation of immigrants.”¹ In fact, for more than 360 years, from 1610 to 1970, the demographics of the US held steady at 87% White American and 12% African American. Hispanics only broke 1% of the population in 1930 and remained under 5% until the 1980 census.

All immigration policy, from our very first immigration law, the Naturalization Act of 1790, until 1965, was crafted specifically to preserve the unique founding polity of our country. However, this act eliminated restrictions on national origin, opening the US up to the world—and chain migration. In just 55 years time, at the 2020 census, the United States went from 87% European and Ethnic American to 57.84% European and Ethnic American, 12.05% Black, 18.73% Hispanic, 6% Asian, less than 1% American Indian, and 4.60% mixed/other race.

Some states saw this change more than others (all illustrated below), but the whole country saw and felt a dramatic difference in our culture and our economic outlook—all without our consent.

Americans have consistently voted against more immigration. As of September 2024, 33% of Americans view diversity as a threat to America and 66% of Americans support mass deportations.

But there is hope! Remigration is politically viable, humane, and practical. Below, we want to give you a vision, at the local level, of what your state will look like post-remigration.

You can read the full American Repatriation Policy Platform here. But in short, we propose a combination of both Mandatory and Voluntary Remigration policies:

Mandatory policies include:

• Deport all illegal immigrants

• Denaturalize and deport criminals and those who obtained citizenship through fraud

• Visa cancellation

Voluntary remigration policies include economic incentives for people to remigrate back to their home countries. Polling data reveals that consistently across Western counties, anywhere from 45% of People of Color (according to a Monmouth University poll) to 66% of working-age non-Westerners (per a Word on the Curb survey in Britain) would leave if given the resources to do so. Therefore, in our projections, we assume a moderate 50% of people would opt-in to voluntary remigration with the appropriate economic support.

Check out our Remigration Resources page to see more detailed proposals where it is available for each country.

Find your state below!

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1. The phrase was only popularized by John F. Kennedy’s essay, “Nation of Immigrants,” posthumously published in 1964 after being commissioned by the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai Brith (now known as the ADL) just before the passage of the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act. His younger brother, Edward Kennedy, then Chairman of the Senate subcommittee hearings on the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act promised in his opening remarks that “the ethnic mix of this country will not be upset.”