On Saturday, May 30, fascist forces from the U.S. and Europe gathered in Figueira da Foz, Portugal, for a “Remigration Summit” built around the demand for mass deportations and the expulsion of immigrants, minorities, and even citizens deemed to be of the “wrong” nationality or religion. In the increasingly mainstream fascist language, “remigration” means straight up mass expulsion: not only deporting undocumented immigrants, but driving out whole populations deemed not sufficiently “assimilated,” not “loyal,” or just not part of the dominant national identity.

Former U.S. Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino (whose GESTAPO foot soldiers were responsible for the deaths of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minneapolis) was a featured speaker, alongside white supremacist activist Jared Taylor, members of Patriot Front, and elected representatives from Germany’s AfD and Spain’s Vox parties (both fascist parties that have grown in recent years). Democracy Now! reported that Bovino and Taylor were treated as VIP guests at the event. 

Bovino dismissed the Delaney Hall hunger strike as “fake news” and said that if detainees lost weight, “we can get even more people on planes for deportation.” Here is the moral rot and thuggery of fascist “remigration”: human beings on hunger strike are mocked as cargo whose bodies can be made lighter for deportation flights. The space between these words and the language of mass extermination is miniscule.

Another comment by Bovino shows the lie that supposedly Trump and his regime are only targeting so-called “violent criminals” and “the worst of the worst.” He said, in criticizing the Trump regime for not going far enough in its campaign of mass deportations, that there are “100 million illegal aliens” in the U.S. today. Think through the implications of that number (which would amount to nearly one in three residents of the U.S.) On the June 4, 2026, episode of Democracy Now!, reporter Charles Davis said, 

Now, most credible experts would tell you there are 12 million [undocumented immigrants living in the U.S.] tops. But if you were paying attention during the 2024 campaign, you might have seen Donald Trump and JD Vance making that number go a little bit higher every time they spoke. It hit 20 million, it hit 30 million, and now it hit 100 million. And I think that speaks to the fact that they’re not just trying to get people out based on pure legal status. You have to view it in the context of trying to eliminate birthright citizenship and rolling back the 20th century. It’s getting rid of people that came over the last hundred years who they define as not American or not European enough, in the European context.

The fact that this is what fascists on both sides of the Atlantic are “floating” out right now, and comparing notes on, should be a massive wake-up call to decent people everywhere. For those of us now living under the fascist Trump/MAGA regime, it should strengthen our resolve and underscore the urgency with which we put into action the timely and encompassing slogan,

In the Name of Humanity, We Refuse to Accept a Fascist America!

Refuse Fascism (refusefascism.org) has repeatedly argued that the xenophobic attacks on immigrants by the Trump/MAGA fascists have been the linchpin and the battering ram for the larger fascist remaking of society. It has already set a terrible precedent that thousands of people have been disappeared, untold numbers of people have self-deported out of fear of the regime, and that people have been murdered by agents of the state for standing up against all this, and that none of this has yet been the precipitating conjuncture for turning around this whole momentum through actually driving out the regime and thoroughly repudiating its politics in society overall.

The important recent article on the hunger strike and protests at the Delaney Hall concentration camp in New Jersey (where some Democratic Party politicians joined in) put it: 

The re-institution of blatant, brutal, white supremacy and xenophobia by the Trump fascist regime represents a different form of rule of the U.S. capitalist-imperialist system…

The Democrats have real differences with this open, brutal, xenophobia. The fact that they have felt compelled to protest this—and even get arrested and brutalized by the fascists—has contributed to calling attention to the horror. But ultimately these top Democratic politicians represent the same system as the fascists, and it is this system and its relentless dog-eat-dog drive for profit that has plundered the economies and distorted the societies from which these immigrants have been driven. In short, as representatives of that system—even “liberal" political representatives—they have no fundamental answers for the problems wrought by that system. 

This is a crucial understanding to bring to people as their attention gets increasingly pulled towards the midterm elections this fall, and towards the planned presidential election in 2028. And, as Bob Avakian put it in his social media message REVOLUTION #89, 

… while Harris (and the Democrats) do not engage in the crudely racist language of Trump (and the Republicans) against immigrants, the actual record of Harris and the Democrats is also terrible in terms of vicious repression against immigrants, including those seeking asylum.

The answer is not reforming the border regime, or more “effective” and “bipartisan” border security, as Democratic Party functionaries like Kamala Harris, James Talarico, and others claim. The answer is revolution for a world without borders, and the emancipation of humanity worldwide. It is long past time that we move beyond a system whose functioning depends on plunder, exploitation, militarized borders, detention camps, and the division of humanity into “legal” and “illegal.”

We Need and We Demand: A Whole New Way to Live, a Fundamentally Different System

The Constitution for the New Socialist Republic in North America, authored by the revolutionary leader Bob Avakian, gives a concrete sense of the radically different direction: it says the new socialist republic would “welcome immigrants from all over the world” who want to contribute to its emancipating goals, and it provides asylum for those persecuted by imperialist and reactionary states. This will be a real expression of internationalism: starting from the interests of humanity, not “America first.”

In this time of heightened revolutionary possibility, the question is posed: will we step forward to fight for this goal? What other cause, what other vision, what other future offers anything close to a way out?