Trump admin gives mass migration warning to US allies: ‘Existential threat’

The US State Department has ordered its embassies to report on the "human rights implications and public safety impacts of mass migration" across US allies, highlighting notorious sexual assault cases involving migrants in the UK, Sweden and Germany.

The department also said officials will "report policies that punish citizens who object to continued mass migration and document crimes and human rights abuses committed by people of a migration background."

In its thread on X, the department called mass migration an existential threat to Western civilization, echoing sentiments from right-leaning lawmakers and commentators.

Kelly Greenhill, faculty director of MIT Seminar XXI,  provides commentary on the US State Department’s migration policies.

"While it is undoubtedly true that sizable migration surges can place significant, even problematic, stresses on the infrastructure and carrying capacity of recipient states, it is hard to credibly argue that in any but the most exceptional circumstances—eg, in poor, developing countries with weak and under-resourced institutions—that even very large inflows would pose an existential threat to states' survival.”

Greenhill also said,"On the other hand, abandoning or eschewing states' commitments to the protection of individual human rights can, over time, erode faith and trust in Western governments and their institutions, thereby actually, and ironically, endangering the very foundations of the states they seek to protect."