The State Department said U.N. agencies and affiliated organizations promoted migration policies that undermine national sovereignty in the United States and Europe.
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The Trump administration accused the United Nations and affiliated organizations of encouraging large-scale migration into Western nations while advancing policies the State Department described as “replacement migration.”
In a May 11 statement posted on X, the State Department said U.N. agencies had “systematically facilitated mass migration” into the United States and Europe despite growing public demands in Western countries for stricter immigration enforcement and border controls.
The department pointed to a February 2026 report tied to the U.N. Global Compact for Migration, saying the document encouraged governments to expand legal migration channels and pursue “regularization” measures for migrants already residing in foreign countries.
The administration also referenced the International Migration Review Forum, held May 5 through May 8 at U.N. headquarters in New York. The event reviewed implementation of the 2018 Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration, which established a non-binding international framework for migration cooperation among member states.
According to the State Department, the United States declined to support the forum’s May 8 progress declaration because the administration would not “legitimize global compacts that enable mass migration into America or Western nations.”
The department added that under President Donald Trump, U.S. policy would “facilitate remigration, not replacement migration.”
Administration officials further accused U.N. agencies and U.N.-funded nongovernmental organizations of assisting migration flows through Central America and toward the southern U.S. border, including activity in the Darién Gap region between Colombia and Panama.
The State Department alleged that U.N. representatives greeted migrants along the route while organizations receiving U.N. funding distributed maps and logistical information to migrants traveling north.
The administration also claimed U.N. personnel were active throughout major Mediterranean migration corridors as Europe continued facing pressure from illegal immigration routes extending from North Africa to Greece and southern Europe.
Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau echoed the administration’s position in a May 12 statement posted on X, arguing that international organizations had moved beyond their intended role.
“As far as I’m aware, no country has voted for open borders/mass migration but multilateral institutions promote those policies nonetheless,” Landau said.
Landau also stated that multinational institutions were originally created “to advance the interests of sovereign nation states,” but argued many now appear focused on weakening the sovereignty of those same countries.
The administration additionally criticized U.N. involvement surrounding the United Kingdom’s former Rwanda deportation initiative, which was designed to relocate certain illegal migrants and asylum seekers to Rwanda for processing.
The State Department said U.N. officials had “lobbied aviation regulators to prevent the deportation of migrants,” describing those actions as “an appalling violation of the UK’s national sovereignty.”
The Rwanda policy, introduced in 2022 under then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson, was intended to discourage illegal crossings of the English Channel and disrupt human trafficking operations moving migrants into Britain by small boat.
The program was ultimately abandoned in July 2024 after the Labour Party took power.
An April 2024 communication from U.N. human rights experts to the UK Civil Aviation Authority warned that airlines and aviation regulators could face allegations of human rights violations if they assisted deportation flights connected to Rwanda.
The letter stated that if British aviation authorities discovered an airline participating in charter arrangements tied to removals to Rwanda, regulators could review whether the carrier still satisfied licensing “fitness” requirements.
The phrase “replacement migration” has previously appeared in U.N. demographic research.
A 2000 United Nations Population Division study examined whether immigration could offset population decline and aging populations in countries with low birth rates.
The report defined replacement migration as the “international migration that would be needed to offset declines in the size of a population, declines in the population of working age as well as to offset the overall ageing of a population.”
The study concluded that countries with fertility rates below replacement levels would likely experience population declines without immigration, with some nations projected to lose up to one-third of their populations during the first half of the 21st century.
The report also stated that while migration could partially offset workforce declines, the level of immigration required to fully prevent population aging would be substantially larger.
“By 2050, these larger migration flows would result in populations where the proportion of post-1995 migrants and their descendants would range between 59 per cent and 99 per cent,” the report said, adding that it appeared “extremely unlikely that such flows could happen in these countries in the foreseeable future.”
Alice Weidel, leader of Germany’s Alternative for Germany party, responded to the State Department’s position in a May 12 post on X, saying the United States had “rightly” rejected the U.N. migration compact.
Weidel described the agreement as a “tool for replacement migration that undermines Western nations” and added, “Exactly what AfD has been warning about for years.”
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