State Department Shakeup Won’t Prevent Next Mass Migration Crisis – Unless Trump Cuts Ties With UN Refugee Agency
President Donald Trump’s executive orders, the proposed 2025 State Department reorganization, and the FY 2026 discretionary budget aim to address the Biden-era mass migration crisis through policy, structural changes and funding adjustments. However, these measures may be inadequate to prevent the crisis from reemerging in the future. A lasting solution will require fully disengaging from the United Nations migration and refugee agencies and dismantling the institutional capacity for migration to the United States.
President Trump recognizes the harms caused by open borders, and his new team is executing its mandate to maintain secure borders and to enforce U.S. immigration law in good faith. Examination of official policy documents of the Joe Biden administration leaves no room for doubt: the border security crisis was caused not by negligence or dereliction, but by affirmative policy choices.
A cascade of Executive Orders signed on January 20, 2025 canceled misguided Biden-era pro-migration policies, suspended programs including the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP), and halted funding for resettlement agencies. President Trump’s FY 2026 Discretionary Budget Request of May 2, 2025 seeks to make changes permanent by cutting the State Department’s budget by nearly half — including the elimination of $3.5 billion used by the Biden State Department “to facilitate mass, illegal migration on the premise of mostly bogus refugee status.” And Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s new proposed organizational chart dismantles USAID, restructures the Office of Foreign Assistance, and merges some of these functions — including the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (TIP) — into the State Department Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration (PRM).
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