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(SeaPRwire) –   On Monday, the U.S. State Department declared it would not endorse the “progress” declaration from the International Migration Review Forum, alleging that the United Nations is attempting to “promote and enable replacement immigration within the United States and throughout the wider West.”

The department stated in a Monday release that the United States abstained from the second International Migration Review Forum, which took place May 5–8 at U.N. Headquarters in New York, and will not endorse the resulting declaration.

As noted by the U.N. Network on Migration, the forum serves as the primary global venue for member states to assess the implementation of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration. The 2026 session was intended to yield an intergovernmentally agreed “Progress Declaration.”

President Donald Trump halted U.S. involvement in the U.N. process for the Global Compact for Migration during his first term in 2017, and the State Department now asserts that the federal government will reaffirm this opposition.

The Global Compact was adopted in 2018 following the United States’ withdrawal from the negotiations. Both the U.N. and the International Organization for Migration characterize the compact as a cooperative framework designed to enhance migration governance internationally.

“As Secretary Rubio stated, welcoming mass migration was a serious error that jeopardizes the stability of our societies and the future of our nations,” the department’s statement reads.

“In recent years, Americans have seen firsthand how mass immigration has devastated our communities: border crime and chaos, states of emergency in major cities, and billions of taxpayer dollars spent on hotels, plane tickets, cell phones, and cash cards for migrants.”

“Much of this was driven by U.N. agencies and their partners, which not only enabled the invasion of our country but also proceeded to redistribute our own people’s wealth and resources to millions of foreigners from the most troubled regions of the world,” it continued.

The department contended that there was nothing safe, orderly, or regular about these actions, noting that the costs were “borne primarily by working Americans forced to compete for limited jobs, housing, and social services.”

“The U.N. has little to say about these Americans,” the department wrote.

“President Trump is focused on the interests of Americans, not foreigners or globalist bureaucrats,” the statement reads. “The United States will not support a process that imposes, whether openly or covertly, guidelines, standards, or commitments that restrict the American people’s sovereign, democratic right to make decisions in the best interests of our country.”

The department concluded its statement by stating that its objective is not to “manage” migration, but to “facilitate remigration.”

In an X thread also announcing the objection to the declaration, the department stated that U.N. agencies “systematically facilitated mass migration into America and Europe, even as citizens of these nations called for restrictions on migration.” It added that U.N. materials related to the Global Compact advocate for expanding regular migration pathways and reference the “regularization” of migrants.

The International Organization for Migration states that the forum occurs every four years to allow countries to review progress and shape future migration policy. IOM, which coordinates the U.N. Network on Migration, notes that the network comprises 39 U.N. agencies working to assist countries on migration issues.

The department alleged that “U.N. agencies – working with the NGOs they fund – established a migration corridor through Central America and to the U.S. border,” the post reads. “As the American people suffered under an unprecedented wave of mass migration, the U.N. was on the ground piping migrants to our southern border.”

“After facilitating mass migration to the United States, U.N. agencies condemned the deportation of illegal immigrants,” the post continued. “While the United Kingdom faced unprecedented illegal boat crossings, U.N. agencies criticized plans for deportations. U.N. officials lobbied aviation regulators to block the deportation of migrants – a shocking violation of the United Kingdom’s national sovereignty.”

The U.N. Network on Migration describes the compact as “non-legally binding.” A U.N.-hosted text of the compact also asserts that it respects states’ sovereign right to determine their national migration policies and to distinguish between regular and irregular migration status.

The declaration itself characterizes the Global Compact as a cooperative framework and acknowledges that no state can address migration in isolation, while also upholding state sovereignty.

The department pushed back against the compact’s framing of migration as “safe, orderly, and regular.”

“For citizens of Western nations, mass migration was never safe. It introduced new security threats, imposed financial burdens, and undermined the stability of our societies,” it wrote.

“The United States will not legitimize global compacts that facilitate mass migration into America or Western nations,” the post added.

U.N. materials frame the compact as a cooperative framework for cross-border issues, including labor migration, border management, migrant protection, and development. U.N. agencies, including the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, describe the IMRF as a state-led review process involving relevant stakeholders.

Digital has reached out to the U.N. for comment.