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Yahoo
5 days ago
- General
- Yahoo
Trump Plans New Immigration Office Linked to Racist Far-Right Plan
President Trump is making remigration, a racist plan popular among the European far right, a reality, according to Reuters. The State Department on Thursday announced its plans to establish an 'Office of Remigration,' assuming it is approved by Congress, on July 1. The term 'remigration' is a white supremacist concept pushed by Austrian neo-Nazi Martin Sellner that posits that all immigrants and 'non-assimilated citizens' be forcibly removed, with the goal of establishing a white ethnostate. 'The Office of Remigration will serve as the [Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration]'s hub for immigration issues and repatriation tracking,' the plan the State Department submitted to Congress 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.' This isn't the first time Trump has floated remigration. 'As President I will immediately end the migrant invasion of America,' he wrote on X in September. 'We will stop all migrant flights, end all illegal entries, terminate the Kamala phone app for smuggling illegals (CBP One App), revoke deportation immunity, suspend refugee resettlement, and return Kamala's illegal migrants to their home countries (also known as remigration).' His deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, another proponent of right-wing white supremacist policy, backed him up. 'THE TRUMP PLAN TO END THE INVASION OF SMALL TOWN AMERICA: REMIGRATION!' he wrote at the time. While remigration isn't a household term in the U.S., it's taken off in certain European political circles. The first 'Remigration Summit' took place earlier this month in Milan featuring multiple far-right leaders and chants of 'Save our nation, remigration.' 'It's outrageous,' Wendy Via, CEO and president of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism, told Wired. 'There is no hiding from the fact that the ultimate goal of 'remigration' is purely about ethnic cleansing. It is a terrible day for our country when 'remigration' proponents are crediting the US and Trump's administration for normalizing the term.' Those on the far right, particularly Sellner himself, think that the U.S. has been well on its way toward establishing remigration for some time now. 'There are differences between Europe and the USA, but the common line is the same: preserving the cultural continuity by stopping replacement migration. Reversing the flows with border security, mass repatriations, and incentives to leave,' Sellner told Wired. Trump's immigration crackdown, his extrajudicial disappearances of students based on their beliefs, and his invocation of the 1798 Alien Enemies Act—which asserts that the country is being invaded by immigrants—are all obvious indicators of remigration already occurring here. 'Remigration is in fact already taking place in the US,' white nationalist author Cyan Quinn, who attended the Remigration Summit, told Wired. 'The first flight of 64 self-deportees following President Trump's stipend announcement have already arrived home safely in Honduras and Columbia.'
Forbes
09-04-2025
- Sport
- Forbes
Tabea Sellner Makes Decision To Retire Aged 28 To Pursue Regular Life
WOLFSBURG, GERMANY - SEPTEMBER 25: Tabea Sellner of Wolfsburg celebrates scoring her team's fifth ... More goal with teammates during the UEFA Women's Champions League 2nd Round 2nd Leg match between Wolfsburg and Fiorentina at AOK-Stadion on September 25, 2024 in Wolfsburg, Germany. (Photo by) German international striker, Tabea Sellner (née Waßmuth) has today made the decision to retire from professional soccer this summer at the age of 28. The VfL Wolfsburg forward played 25 times for her country, coming on as a second half substitute in the UEFA Women's Euro final at Wembley Stadium in 2022. Shortly after not being included in the German squad for the FIFA Women's World Cup in 2023, she announced that was expecting her first child and would not be available to play for the following season. Sellner gave birth in April 2024 and successfully returned to play for Wolfsburg this season but with her contract due to end this summer, she has made the decision not to pursue her sporting career beyond this season. Speaking to the VfL Wolfsburg website, Sellner admitted that she wanted to put her family first. 'Of course I considered whether I wanted to go abroad again with my family and our little one or gain other experiences. But in the end, that gut feeling stuck.' "I'm very proud of my career and never would have thought I'd get to experience so much. And I think it's great that I was able to make the decision myself. I'm fine; I could have continued – but this feels exactly right. Now I'm looking forward to what life will bring." Sellner recently also completed her doctoral thesis in sport's medicine but said for now she wants to weigh up her future options. 'We want to travel a bit first and not jump straight from one project to the next. It's important to me to have time to process everything and let it sink in." "After that, we want to move closer to home and start our regular professional lives. . . I'm also looking forward to free weekends, to being able to take regular vacations, and to being more flexible.' Sellner joined Wolfsburg from TSG Hoffenheim in 2021 and immediately made her mark, finishing as the second-highest scorer in the Frauen Bundesliga and also the second-highest goalscorer in the UEFA Women's Champions League. Her eight goals in six group stage games remains a competition record, with her performance in the winner-takes-all clash against Chelsea particularly memorable. WOLFSBURG, GERMANY - DECEMBER 16: Tabea Wassmuth of VfL Wolfsburg celebrates after scoring her ... More team's third goal with teammates during the UEFA Women's Champions League group A match between VfL Wolfsburg and Chelsea FC Women at AOK-Stadion on December 16, 2021 in Wolfsburg, Germany. (Photo by Nico Paetzel/DeFodi Images via Getty Images) 'Nobody expected it to go so well. I never would have thought I would play so much. The game against Chelsea, which we won 4-0, was an absolute highlight. But of course also the game against Barcelona, which was attended by over 91,000 spectators.' Since becoming a mother last year. Sellner has been an outspoken advocate for the rights of mothers in Germany. In a country where breastfeeding in public is not legally protected, Sellner became an ambassador for the 'End discrimination against breastfeeding mothers' petition set up by FemTech brand Elvie. Speaking to Vogue Germany last year, Sellner said that women's clubs need to devise a set of regulations on how to accommodate players who become pregnant. 'In my opinion, it would be important to establish certain procedures for pregnancies, which also exist for other training absences, such as a cruciate ligament tear. A kind of guideline that you can roughly follow.' 25 September 2024, Lower Saxony, Wolfsburg: Soccer, Women: Champions League - Qualification, VfL ... More Wolfsburg - ACF Florence, 2nd qualifying round, 2nd round, second leg, AOK Stadion. Wolfsburg's Tabea Sellner (r) celebrates with Wolfsburg's Sveindis Jonsdottir after her goal to make it 5:0. Photo: Swen Pförtner/dpa (Photo by Swen Pförtner/picture alliance via Getty Images) In her comeback game from maternity leave last September, Sellner made a triumphant return. After coming on as a late substitute, she scored the final goal in a 7-0 Champions League win over ACF Fiorentina but, having been out of the team for 15 months, Sellner has found her opportunities to play have been limited this season. She said "I still find it fascinating what the female body is capable of. It's truly impressive and wonderful to experience that a return to competitive sport after pregnancy is possible with the appropriate support, and so quickly. I'm proud that I was able to return to a top level." "It was never my goal to be a role model in that sense. But of course, I'm happy if I can be a role model for future players who want to become mothers during their careers. That's a very nice thing."
