Trump is waging a silent war on legal immigration

When the member states of the United Nations reviewed their Global Compact on Migration earlier this month, one country was conspicuously absent from the discussions: the United States. In a post on X explaining its reasoning, the State Department said it objects to global "efforts to facilitate replacement migration to the United States and our Western allies." A subsequent post clarified that President Donald Trump's administration supports "remigration - but not replacement migration."

If "replacement migration" sounds like a dogwhistle, that's because it's one the administration's loudest ones yet. Such allusions to the "great replaceme …

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