You Don’t Have to Go Home, But You Can’t Stay Here

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The Editors
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Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller delivers remarks during the Memorial Service for Charlie Kirk at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, Sunday, September 21, 2025.(Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok)

Stephen Miller, an aide to President Trump is working hard to expel illegal immigrants from the United States. It’s not always easy, because some of the criminals who have come to the U.S.A. illegally aren’t welcome back in their home countries. To deal with this problem, Miller and other Trump admin officials working for the State Department have opened third-party deportation locations around the globe where these cases can be sent. The Washington Post reports:

The agreements have been secured under the orders of Stephen Miller, a long-standing aide to the president who now serves as White House deputy chief of staff. Current and former officials say that Miller, known for his relentless anti-immigration focus, has been able to push key appointments at the State Department that have allowed him to overrule other foreign policy objectives in his goal of achieving more deportations.

Ehrhardt is “considered a White House envoy” when he meets with foreign leaders, said a U.S. official familiar with his meetings. “The messaging is not just that he is a deputy assistant secretary of state. He’s really part of the White House, so they roll out the red carpet.” This official, like many others in this article, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal State Department operations.

What countries get in return under these agreements varies significantly. The documents from inside the Office of Remigration reviewed by The Post show financial commitments that include $81 million in direct payments to 13 of the foreign governments. While that overall sum is small in terms of the U.S. budget, it often represents a massive expansion in funds being sent to authoritarian regimes that previously received smaller amounts from the United States. The deals were written through contracts designed to bypass statutory requirements, including human rights safeguards, that come with most foreign assistance spending, according to people familiar with the agreements.

While the Washington Post describes these deals as “secret,” plans for the Office of Remigration have been public since May of 2025. Ben Kew reported in the Gateway Pundit at the time:

The Trump administration is establishing a new entity known as the Office of Remigration.

The initiative is outlined in a 136-page briefing submitted to six Congressional committees—including the House Committees on Foreign Affairs and Appropriations, as well as the Senate Foreign Relations Committee—which are expected to review and approve the proposal by July 1.

“The Office of Remigration will serve as the [Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration]’s hub for immigration issues and repatriation tracking,” the document reads.

“It will provide a policy platform for interagency coordination with DHS and other agencies on removals/repatriations, and for intra-agency policy work to advance the President’s immigration agenda.”

Miller took to X.com recently to tout the Trump administration’s success in removing illegal immigrants from the United States.

The Morse Report also weighed in on the Trump administration’s effective remigration, explaining that its policies could result in a reduction of 15.3 million person reduction in foreign-born residents in the United States by the end of Trump’s second term.