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Posted: 2024-09-20T17:42:50Z | Updated: 2024-09-20T18:32:57Z

Last weekend, former President Donald Trump posted another anti-immigrant screed to Truth Social. It would have been unremarkable at least, graded on the Trumpian curve of extreme xenophobia except for one word.

[We will] return Kamalas illegal migrants to their home countries (also known as remigration), he wrote. I will save our cities and towns in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and all across America.

Many people might have glossed over his use of remigration. White nationalists did not.

#Remigration has had a massive conceptual career, Martin Sellner leader of the Austrian chapter of Generation Identity, a pan-European white supremacist network tweeted in his native German. Born in France, popularized in German-speaking countries and now the term of the hour from Sweden to the USA!

It was a succinct and accurate history from Sellner, a 35-year-old who typically trafficks in vicious lies and conspiracy theories, particularly about Black and brown people. He has been at the vanguard of pushing remigration a euphemism for ethnically cleansing non-white people from Western countries into the popular political lexicon in Europe.

Now Sellner was seeing his favorite little word all grown up, moving overseas in service of the 45th president of the United States, who has promised to implement the largest mass deportation of immigrants in U.S. history if elected back to the White House in six weeks time.

Trumps use of remigration is the latest instance of the GOPs intensifying anti-immigrant rhetoric in the run-up to Novembers election, underscoring the degree to which one of Americas two major political parties is sourcing many of its talking points and policy ideas directly from neo-fascists.