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Washington warned the United Nations didn’t just facilitate mass migration into the West but “redistributed our own people’s wealth and resources” to fund it.

The Trump administration has boycotted the United Nations’ International Migration Review Forum and refused to endorse its concluding declaration, accusing UN agencies of waging a campaign of replacement migration against the United States and other Western nations.

The US State Department announced on 11 May that it did not participate in the forum, held at UN Headquarters in New York from 5 to 8 May, and would not support the resulting ‘progress’ declaration.

“The United States has persistently objected to the United Nations’ efforts to advocate and facilitate replacement immigration in the United States and across the broader West,” the department stated.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio characterised the mass migration of recent years as a catastrophic failure. “Opening our doors to mass migration was a grave mistake that threatens the cohesion of our societies and the future of our peoples,” he said.

The department’s statement went on to describe the human cost: “Americans witnessed first-hand how mass immigration laid waste to our communities: crime and chaos at the border, states of emergency in major cities, and billions of taxpayer dollars funnelled towards hotels, plane tickets, cell phones and cash cards for migrants.”

The statement placed responsibility squarely on the UN and its partner NGOs.

“Much of this was driven by UN agencies and their partners, which did not just facilitate the invasion of our country, but proceeded to redistribute our own people’s wealth and resources to millions of foreigners from the worst corners of the world,” it said.

The State Department ended with a clear declaration of intent: “Our goal is not to ‘manage’ migration, but to foster remigration.”

Last week, the United States refused to participate in the UN’s review of the Global Compact on Migration.

The United States objects to the Global Compact on Migration and UN efforts to facilitate replacement migration to the United States and our Western allies.

— Department of State (@StateDept) May 11, 2026

The UN’s Migration Pipeline

The State Department’s accompanying X thread — which drew nearly 10 million views — provided detailed allegations of the UN’s operational involvement in mass migration flows into Western countries.

The thread alleged that UN agencies and the NGOs they fund established a migration corridor through Central America to the US southern border, with UN officials greeting migrants along the route through the deadly Darién Gap.

Footage from April 2023 shows a coordinating officer from the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) — the UN’s primary intergovernmental body for migration — at the Lajas Blancas reception centre in Panama admits they were receiving “approximately 700 to 1,000 people daily” and providing them “basic information about the services available… and information about the route”.

A record 520,085 people crossed the Darién in 2023.

The State Department’s thread also noted that as the United Kingdom faced unprecedented illegal boat crossings, three UN Special Rapporteurs wrote to the UK Civil Aviation Authority warning that airlines facilitating removals to Rwanda could face scrutiny over their fitness to hold operating licences — and could be considered complicit in human rights violations.

The forum’s Progress Declaration, adopted on 8 May, calls on member states to “enhance and diversify the availability of pathways for safe, orderly and regular migration” and to pursue “regularisation” of irregular migrants — precisely the agenda Washington rejected.

The UN’s Own Document

The term “replacement migration” remains politically contested.

The Anti-Defamation League describes the Great Replacement as “a conspiracy theory that argues white citizens of Western countries are being replaced by non-white immigrants.” A 2023 US House resolution called it “a White supremacist conspiracy theory” with no factual basis.

However, the United Nations Population Division published a 177-page study in 2000 titled Replacement Migration: Is it A Solution to Declining and Ageing Populations? which opens with this definition:

Replacement migration refers to the international migration that would be needed to offset declines in the size of population, the declines in the population of working age, as well as to offset the overall ageing of a population.

The study examined eight countries — France, Germany, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States — along with Europe and the European Union as a whole.

It calculated that to merely maintain the size of the working-age population in Germany, 24 million migrants would be required between 1995 and 2050, or roughly 487,000 per year. For Italy, the figure was 18.6 million; for the European Union, 47 million.

To maintain existing demographic support ratios across Europe at 1995 levels, the study projected a requirement of nearly 1.4 billion migrants.

The report stated plainly:

The projected population decline and population ageing will have profound and far-reaching consequences, forcing Governments to reassess many established economic, social and political policies and programmes, including those relating to international migration.

Among the “critical issues” for governments to address, the report listed “policies and programmes relating to international migration, in particular replacement migration, and the integration of large numbers of recent migrants and their descendants.”

The study was produced by the UN Population Division, whose stated mandate is providing “scientifically objective information on population and development”.

Washington’s objection this week was to a process the UN itself labelled “replacement migration”, and whose demographic case was first mapped by the UN’s own researchers a generation ago.

The man who directed that research, Joseph Chamie, later noted that acting on its findings would mean “changing the ethnic composition and age distribution of your country”.

“How do you assimilate or integrate so many? This may create problems in countries, such as observed in Germany even after 30 years of immigration,” he observed in a 2006 interview on population and migration policy.

Australia’s Position

Australia abstained from the Global Compact on Migration when it was adopted in December 2018 under Prime Minister Scott Morrison, who warned the agreement could “undermine Australia’s strong border protection laws and practices”.

The Albanese government never formally acceded to the compact but has overseen record migration intake: net overseas migration reached 538,000 in 2022–23, a financial-year record according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

The Daily Declaration contacted Minister for Home Affairs Tony Burke’s office for comment.

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