Recently David Gilbert, WIRED Magazine’s “online extremism” correspondent reached out to me for comment as a speaker at the Remigration Summit in Milan.
Gilbert [@daithaigilbert on X] asked
I'm writing about the Remigration summit that took place last weekend in Italy and I am focusing specifically on the US and if the idea of remigration will become more popular here given its rise across the EU and in the UK recently.
I was wondering if, as a speaker at the conference, you had a sense if there is support for remigration to become policy during Trump's second term (given he mentioned the term back in September) and what you think needs to happen for it to happen?
Finally, you mentioned that white people across the globe need to work together, so I was wondering if the summit provided an opportunity for you to connect with different European groups and how that could help drive the adoption of remigration in the US?
This was my reply (with some links added):
Dear David,
Thank you very much for reaching out.
Remigration is in fact already taking place in the US! The first flight of 64 self-deportees following President Trump’s stipend announcement have already arrived home safely in Honduras and Colombia.
Political leaders are beginning to recognize that the migrant crisis was a terrible mistake. In our most genuine efforts to uplift the poor, we ended up impoverishing our own countries by straining our welfare systems as I illustrated in my presentation (transcript and full slide deck here). This holds true across many Western economies. Therefore the collective response as we experienced at the Remigration Summit is very much overdue.
As I noted in my presentation, in Sweden for example, a 2017 study here revealed that immigrants will double the state cost of pensions even after taking into consideration taxes paid by these immigrants. And again in 2019, this study discovered that immigrants could not compensate for an aging population and startlingly drew more benefits than would otherwise be paid out. This is one of the reasons why, in Sweden, the first generous paid remigration proposal has been accepted into the next budget. We cover their full remigration plan here. This experiment is a first in its kind and other Western nations have the opportunity to learn from each other. We have two similar paid, voluntary remigration strategies for the US (read here) and the UK (read here).
Moreover, as I also noted in my presentation, many of these migrants would like to return home. A recent Word on the Curb survey found that 66% of young People of Color in the UK aged 18-64 would like to leave if they had the means to do so. Monmouth University found similar statistics in the United States with 45 – 51% of People of Color desiring a life elsewhere. We see this as a win-win for all nations which is why we also feature a Beyond the West series of pieces from writers in non-Western nations calling their diaspora home.
A greater loss, one that isn’t quantifiable, is our loss of culture and meaning as The West. We have a rich and vibrant history ourselves. Rome is the seat of Western Civilization and representative democracy. The American West symbolizes wild individualism and a spirit of adventure. One of the hallmarks of Western Civilization is our genteel treatment of women and Western marriages involve more equality and respect than any other culture in the world. But as my fellow American presenter Jacky Eubanks described, her hometown of Dearborn, Michigan now plays the Muslim call to prayer.
It’s worth noting that in the 1960s, Michigan possessed the 6th largest economy in the United States. Detroit, the “Paris of the West” demographically went from 90% White in the 1940s to 11% White in 2020 and looks like a bombed-out husk. The state of Michigan provides rental assistance to refugees and immigrants that offers them up to $500 a month. Meanwhile, Michigan is suffering a mounting housing crisis and no such program exists for Michiganders who hope to start a family unless they are severely below the poverty line—a line that keeps getting lower adjusted for inflation thanks to mass migration of labor, as I illustrated in my presentation. The only housing help for native Michiganders is “well, if you’d stop ordering avocado toast…”
We just published an evaluation of the demographics of Ohio where leaders gleefully describe new arrivals as young and more likely to start businesses and Vivek Ramaswamy, descendant of Indian immigrants and governor-hopeful, criticizes Americans as lazy. People wonder why the White fertility rate is so low as if it’s just one of the unknowable mysteries of the universe.
People of Western Nations everywhere have a choice: as a civilization, will we go quietly into that dark night as borderless welfare states? Or will we find our self-worth again as a people who made it to the stars?
Thank you for covering this historic event.
Warm regards,
Cyan Quinn
The column appeared here, and used exactly one line of my reply.
The Trump Administration Wants to Create an ‘Office of Remigration’
“Remigration”—a far-right European plan to expel minorities and immigrants from Western nations—may soon have a dedicated office following a Trump administration reorganization of the State Department. May 25, 2025
The first opinion quote in the article is from the CEO of the “Global Project Against Hate and Extremism,” a spinoff of the SPLC courtesy of Heidi Beirich. That was our first clue we were in for something balanced and insightful.
Regardless, I’m delighted the issue is getting international attention. And if you’re here thanks to the article coverage, welcome!
Remigration is humane, legal, necessary, and mainstream. Check out our voluntary remigration policy platforms here:
Remigration recommendations for:
And Beyond the West:
You can find more on our full website here organized by issue.
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Great article. Nice to see the policy getting more traction.