On the far right, calls are growing for radical policies that not only include deporting people in the country illegally, but also potentially targeting citizens.
“At its most extreme, remigration is really about ethnically cleansing countries of black and brown people,” said Heidi Beirich, co-founder of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism. “This is more extreme than anything any anti-immigrant movement has ever proposed before.”
Beirich noted, “It’s a much broader thing than removing people from a country who don’t have the right papers to be legally there. This is about reconstituting the nature of a population of a country.”
She added, “I can’t think of anything more hateful.”
To achieve their goals, Beirich said, “it would mean probably close to a third or more of Americans would have to be removed.”
And proponents of remigration readily admit that they are willing to toss out the U.S. Constitution if necessary.
“These aren’t people who are necessarily beholden to democracy or the Constitution,” Beirich continued. “These are white supremacists who won a country ruled by White people—White men, most likely. And that doesn’t have anything really to do at the end of the day with American democracy as it was conceived of from the beginning—even with its racist underpinnings.”
Please watch the interview above, then tell me what you think!
