State Department Rejects Invitation to Pro-Migration Conference

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The United States rejected a declaration in support of “safe, orderly and regular migration” by the International Migration Review Forum, a United Nations program.

The U.S also did not participate in the forum, which was hosted at the United Nations’ headquarters May 5-8.   

The 2026 declaration says that member states must “respect each other’s needs and concerns over migration.” It asserts that “all migrants, regardless of their migration status, are human rights holders,” and that countries must “protect and fulfill the human rights and fundamental freedoms of all migrants, regardless of their migration status, without any kind of discrimination, while promoting the security, well-being and prosperity of all our communities.”

President Donald Trump, however, is focused on the interests of Americans, not foreigners or “globalist bureaucrats,” the State Department says.

The United States objects to the U.N.’s effort to “advocate and facilitate replacement immigration in the United States and across the broader West,” a State Department spokesman told The Daily Signal.

Trump rejected the forum’s 2017 Global Compact on Migration, as well.

“As Secretary [Marco] Rubio said, opening our doors to mass migration was a grave mistake that threatens the cohesion of our societies and the future of our peoples,” a spokesperson said. “In recent years, Americans witnessed first-hand how mass immigration laid waste to our communities: crime and chaos at the border, states of emergency in major cities, and billions of taxpayer dollars funneled towards hotels, plane tickets, cell phones and cash cards for migrants.”

The use of taxpayer dollars on migrants was largely driven by U.N. agencies and their partners, “which did not just facilitate the invasion of our country, but proceeded to redistribute our own people’s wealth and resources to millions of foreigners from the worst corners of the world,” the spokesperson said.

“There was nothing ‘safe,’ orderly,’ or ‘regular’ about any of this,” the spokesperson said. “And the costs were borne primarily by working Americans forced to compete for scarce jobs, housing, and social services.  The U.N. has little to say about them.”

While the International Migration Review Forum aims to “manage borders in an integrated, secure and coordinated manner,” the United States wants to foster remigration.

 ”The United States will not support a process that imposes, overtly or by stealth, guidelines, standards, or commitments that constrain the American people’s sovereign, democratic right to make decisions in the best interests of our country,” the spokesperson said.