Odette Youssef

how DHS and the State Department have embraced a concept called re-migration, basically encouraging immigrants to self-deport.

Re-migration is a term that was popularized by white nationalists in Europe and wasn't largely known in the US until this administration started promoting it.

And now the State Department has an office of re-migration.

You know, it's also been woven into how some of our federal officials are speaking.

Kristi Noem visited the Chicago area last summer and she was speaking to reporters and she said this phrase.

She said, this country was built by citizens.

And that just sent alarm bells blaring in my head because it so closely resembled Chicago.

what we often hear within the white nationalist movement, white men built this country or white people built this country, kind of a blood and soil type of framing around who belongs here.

This is definitely very affirming to people that have long been circulating these kinds of images and language within their fringe groups.

But, you know, it's also been clear to other people that have been tracking that kind of thing.

One of the people that I spoke to is Eric Ward.

He runs a civil rights organization called Race Forward.

You know, by definition, propaganda is information that's biased or misleading.

And that is a definition that very much applies to what these federal agencies are doing.

You know, take the example I raised earlier, you know, Kristi Noem saying citizens built this country.

You know, I think descendants of slaves would very much have a counterclaim to that or any of the Chinese laborers on the U.S.

railway or, you know,

countless other examples.

It's just not factual.

You know, today we're seeing so much messaging that is attempting to link the idea of immigrants to the idea of criminality, even though data have shown that immigrants are less likely to commit crimes in the U.S.