State Department Rejects UN Migration Forum Declaration Over Replacement Immigration Push

The U.S. State Department announced Monday that it refused to back a progress declaration from the International Migration Review Forum. It accused the United Nations of efforts to advocate and facilitate replacement immigration in the United States and across the broader West.

The U.S. did not participate in the second International Migration Review Forum, held May 5–8 at UN Headquarters in New York. The department said it will not support the declaration in a statement released Monday.

The forum serves as the UN's main global platform for member states to review implementation of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, according to the UN Network on Migration. The 2026 forum was set to produce an intergovernmentally agreed progress declaration.

President Donald Trump ended U.S. participation in the UN process to develop the Global Compact for Migration in 2017 during his first term. The State Department said the federal government will again affirm its opposition.

The Global Compact was adopted in 2018 after the U.S. withdrawal. The UN and International Organization for Migration describe it as a cooperative framework to improve migration governance across countries.

"As Secretary Rubio said, opening our doors to mass migration was a grave mistake that threatens the cohesion of our societies and the future of our peoples," the department's statement reads. "In recent years, 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 funneled towards hotels, plane tickets, cell phones and cash cards for migrants."

"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 continued.

The department argued there was nothing safe, orderly or regular about any of this. It said the costs were borne primarily by working Americans forced to compete for scarce jobs, housing, and social services. "The UN has little to say about them," the department wrote.

"President Trump is focused on the interests of Americans, not foreigners or globalist bureaucrats," the statement reads. "The United States will not support a process that imposes, overtly or by stealth, guidelines, standards, or commitments that constrain the American people’s sovereign, democratic right to make decisions in the best interests of our country."

The department concluded its statement by saying its goal is not to manage migration, but to foster remigration.

In a thread on X announcing the objection to the declaration, the department said UN agencies systematically facilitated mass migration into America and Europe, even as citizens of these nations called for restrictions. It added that UN materials related to the Global Compact call for expanding regular migration pathways and reference regularization of migrants.

The International Organization for Migration says the forum occurs every four years for countries to review progress and shape next steps on migration policy. IOM coordinates the UN Network on Migration, which includes 39 UN agencies working to support countries on migration issues.

The department alleged that UN agencies, working with NGOs they fund, established a migration corridor through Central America to the U.S. border. "As the American people suffered under an unprecedented wave of mass migration, the UN was on the ground pipelining migrants to our southern border," the post reads.

"After facilitating mass migration to the United States, UN agencies condemned the deportation of illegal immigrants," the post continued. "While the United Kingdom faced unprecedented illegal boat crossings, UN agencies condemned plans for deportations. UN officials lobbied aviation regulators to prevent the deportation of migrants – an appalling violation of the UK’s national sovereignty."

The UN Network on Migration describes the compact as non-legally binding. A UN-hosted text of the compact says it respects states' sovereign right to determine their national migration policies and to distinguish between regular and irregular migration status.

The declaration itself says the Global Compact is a cooperative framework. It acknowledges that no state can address migration alone, while upholding the sovereignty of states.

The department pushed back on the compact's framing of migration as safe, orderly and regular. "For the citizens of Western nations, mass migration was never safe. It introduced new security threats, imposed financial strains, and undermined the cohesion of our societies," it wrote.

"The United States will not legitimize global compacts that enable mass migration into America or Western nations," the post added.

UN materials frame the compact as a cooperative framework for issues that often cross borders, including labor migration, border management, migrant protections and development. UN agencies, including the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, describe the IMRF as a state-led review process with participation from relevant stakeholders.

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