Asian Mass Immigration and Remigration

Pictured: The Chinatown Gateway in Portland, Oregon, in the American Pacific Northwest

At White Papers, our core premise is that Western nations deserve to protect their sovereignty, their political institutions, and their founding demography, and to build a future free from interference by alien cultures or hostile elites. The reality is that the nations of the West are at risk. The peoples native to Europe and those who founded Western nations like America are at risk of becoming minorities in their homelands after decades of unwanted mass immigration, facilitated by our own elite political class. In some cases this was done for ideological reasons (globalism). In other cases, it was to drive down the cost of labor for short-term gains. The inevitable and necessary result of these anti-democratic immigration policies by the post-war liberal establishment is a growing political movement that has risen to reject the premise of continued mass immigration and, crucially, to reverse these trends.

Nationalists and patriots, more than anyone, know the data. They look at the graphs, charts and trends, and understand that, if we do nothing, The West is lost forever! But what can be done? Is it too late?

White Papers knows something CAN be done. Something MUST be done. We have advocated these changes for more than six years, and now that pro-Western parties are coming to power across our civilization—the Netherlands, Austria, Sweden, France, and beyond, it is time to expand our vision of what can be done to reverse the anti-democratic project of mass immigration.

Remigration (also called repatriation) is simple. It is the return of recent immigrants, and many of their descendants who have failed to integrate into Western societies, to their respective homelands or perhaps third-party countries willing to take them. It is the policy most needed to correct the course of Western Civilization. Most importantly, though, it is a practical policy.

Westerners, even to our detriment, are some of the most welcoming and hospitable peoples on Earth. Remigration must, therefore, happen in a peaceful and just manner which respects the dignity of those being asked and incentivized to leave our nations. Remigration is not inhumane or disparaging of other peoples.

A note regarding racial and ethnic terminology for this series: We realize that some terms are contentious. However, for the sake of simplicity and directness, we will be sticking with current Census Bureau terminology for these pieces rather than using novel language such as “Latinx.”

America’s demographics have changed radically since the passage of the 1965 Immigration Act (Hart-Celler Act), and it feels appropriate that to begin examining of the nation’s largest but until recently least discussed post-1965 immigrant groups: Asians.

When the 1965 Immigration Act was passed the share of Asians among the American population was just 0.5% according to the 1960 Census. At most, the Asian population would have increased to about 1.2-1.8% today had the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act never passed, according to Pew Research and our own demographic projections.

In this non-Hart-Celler scenario, the roughly 1 million Asians from 1960 (~50% were foreign-born) would have increased to a population of about 4 million, and more than 90% would be US-born. Instead of modest, natural, population growth that would have seen Asian immigrant communities integrate into the wider American nation and truly become Asian Americans we have instead seen massive growth in the Asian immigrant population that is only projected to increase.

Instead of a small, well-integrated, overwhelmingly American-born Asian, population some 54% of Asians in the United States and 71% of all Asian adults were born abroad. Another 34% of the Asian population of the United States are the children of immigrant parents while only 14% have roots that go back three or more generations. Of the 26 million Asians who live in the United States, roughly 14.8 million were born abroad. Many therefore already hold, or are eligible for, the citizenship of another country. In total about 23 million of the 26 million Asians in the United States are not multi-generational American families with a heritage and connection to the country but are instead post-1965 immigrants and their children.

For certain, some if not many of these 23 million recent 1st and 2nd generation immigrants are law abiding, well integrated, self-sufficient individuals and families. They are good people, good neighbors, and patriotic about their adopted homeland. However, the reality remains that many are simply imported foreigners. They live in parallel societies, do not identify as Americans, and require huge levels of support from American taxpayers through the welfare state. Indeed, the 2024 Survey of Income and Program Participation as examined by the Center for Immigration Studies found that 51% of legal immigrant households, 69% of illegal immigrant households, and 49% of naturalized citizen households rely upon the generosity of the American welfare state to make ends meet.

More granular data published in 2026 showed that 28% of Korean households, 35% of Chinese households, 44% of Filipino Households, and 60% of Vietnamese households in the United States were receiving welfare dollars from the American taxpayer. These figures compare to 31% of native-born US households who rely upon the welfare state.

The problem is also intergenerational. The same 2024 data examined by the Center for Immigration Studies found that while 38% of Asian immigrants would utilize the welfare state at some point, and the figure would drop sharply to 29% among second generation immigrants (their American-born children), the figure barely declined for the 3rd generation (people whose grandparents immigrated to America) with 37% relying upon the welfare state. Americans never voted for this and would likely be in uproar if these figures were more widely known.

Americans must face the reality that if 38% of Asian immigrant households are indeed reliant upon public welfare and if this persisted across generations, then more than 5.3 million Asian immigrants should never have been admitted into this country to begin with, let alone made our “fellow Americans.” The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA) was specifically designed to prevent this kind of welfare-based mass immigration, but interpretations of this law allowed it to be hardly applied for decades. The only just way to undo this state of affairs is to reverse the tide on mass immigration and send these public charges, and their families, home.

This is more than an argument about welfare and fiscal costs, though. The American people want to live in a unified, coherent, high-trust society like they have for generations, and this simply cannot be achieved when immigrants and their descendants do not identify as Americans. 2023 data from the Pew Research Center reveals that among Asians in the United States, just 10% state their identity as simply “American” while only 51% identify as “American” in any way. 44% of Asians in the United States identify primarily with their ethnicity and their race, not with America. Further data published by Pew shows that 56% of foreign-born Asians have almost exclusively friends of the same ethnicity or race as themselves and only 37% would consider themselves to be typical Americans. Even among second-generation Asians some 38% have exclusively Asian friends and 31% do not believe themselves to be typical Americans.

In a new study by the Pew Research Center delving into the shared experience of Asian American daily life,

51% said all or most of their friends in the U.S. share their ethnicity or are also Asian. https://t.co/VJyqClm1mZ

— Hạnh Lien 🏳️‍🌈 (@catsfaith) May 9, 2023

This suggests that certain communities of Asian immigrants are unable or unwilling to integrate.

Mass immigration has so demographically transformed the United States that integration has become impossible. Immigrant populations and their American-born family members are maintaining parallel societies within the United States with their own political, economic, and cultural interests that oppose those of Americans. This is unacceptable and can only be resolved with a policy of remigration that tells the many, many, millions of unintegrated Asians in the United States that they are going to have to relocate to the country they identify with and leave Americans to live in peace in our own homeland.

There are numerous policy options available to remove unwanted foreign dependents from the United States: cancelling work visas, revoking citizenship from criminals, simple immigration enforcement for overstayers, and a broad administrative review of all citizenship applications since 1965 with a focus on welfare recipients. Many of these applications are already known to be fraudulent. We need only look back on the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 or the 2008 State Department refugee DNA scandal to know that many naturalized aliens and self-proclaimed refugees have been fraudulent over the years.

Asians who obtained their citizenship through fraud or deceit, such as that mentioned above, would then have that citizenship revoked. Usefully, this precedent is already well established in American law, and a nationalist administration would not be taking any wildly unprecedented steps nor violating any norms by utilizing this fantastic precedent. The grounds for expansion of denaturalization are also being explored in Senator Erik Schmitt’s SCAM Act and Representative Andy Ogles’ (R-TN) upcoming ASSIMILATION Act. These pieces of legislation are a great start, but more will be required. Namely, Congress is going to need to expand denaturalization to cover the Latin American (and other) immigrants who have relied heavily upon the American taxpayer. If immigrants came to this country and have relied upon Medicaid, food stamps, WIC, housing assistance, or any combination thereof for any reason aside from serious sickness or disability, they should be denaturalized and returned to their home countries. It is not the duty of the American people to host a permanent foreign-born welfare class. Were the American state to denaturalize and or deport all legal Asian immigrants who rely upon the welfare state (with an adjustment made for the genuinely sick, elderly & injured), it would result in about 5.3 million denaturalizations and deportations.

There are also other demographics of recent Asian immigrants that have no right or claim to live in the United States, such as the children of illegal aliens. While it is self-evident that a pro-American government would deport the many tens of millions of illegal immigrants residing in the country (a figure that the American Federation for Immigration Reform estimated to be 18.6 million at the start of 2025), there remains the question of their children. The children of illegal immigrants born in the United States are American citizens by birthright, at least as the constitution is currently interpreted. This demographic of people, according to the most recent data we could find, numbers roughly 5 million people under the age of 18. These children would have to leave the nation with their parents. After all, children belong with their parents, and family separation is immoral.

The children of illegal immigrants are, in the overwhelming majority of cases, entitled to or already possess the citizenship of their parent’s country of origin, their homeland. The United States could reasonably de-naturalize this demographic as they left with their parents, and it would not turn them into stateless individuals. The policy aligns with the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness and therefore would not violate international law or norms.

With estimates showing that 17-20% of illegal aliens are Asians, or about 3.5 million people, and assuming that the same figure holds true for their children, another one million people, we can assume that deportation and denaturalization policies aimed specifically at illegal Asians and their children would result in upwards of 4.5 million deportations. About 700,000 of these illegal Asian immigrants would come from India with another 200,000 people being the children of illegal Indian immigrants in the United States.

Through the enactment of all of the above policy recommendations a remigration oriented American government could reasonably remigrate as many as 7 million Asian immigrants/illegal aliens to their countries of origin and ancestral homelands without violating domestic or international legal and human rights norms. We took care to remove the 29% of Asians who are married to a US-born non-Hispanic spouse from our final calculations, as we do not want to break up the families of Americans. Still, this figure represents 27% of the current Asian population of the United States and would not require unduly stripping anyone of their citizenship who acquired it fairly and with the best of intentions, nor stripping citizenship from persons who were born to legal residents, American citizens, or whom are already above the age of 18.

Aside from deportation, compelled by the state or voluntarily undertaken, there are other policy changes which a government that truly puts America First could implement to increase returns of illegal and irregular immigrant departures without the direct intervention of immigration officials.

The policy changes required are rather straightforward. The first would be to make the E-Verify system mandatory for every employer, public or private, in the United States. This could be done in two ways: first by a direct legislative imperative that all institutions and employers must use the E-Verify system. But, a second more immediate route would be to require all Federal contractors, and any business that interacts with the Federal government, or which receives Federal tax dollars, must implement the E-Verify system. Currently Federal contractors need only use E-verify on employees who “work under federal contracts” rather than all employees. This must change.

The next necessary policy change focuses again on the Reagan Amnesty, the 1986 IRCA. This act contains a provision which makes it near impossible for prosecutors and Federal officials to take businesses to court whom employ illegal immigrants. This section (Section B) should and must be replaced, but this issue could be tackled more immediately by a nationalist government. The Attorney General could have the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel issue a new opinion which more strictly reinterprets the provision to allow the prosecution of businessowners who employ illegal immigrants.

The President should then begin the process of firing all 93 Federal US Attorneys, which he is empowered to do at his discretion. He should then turn to filling these vacancies with new US Attorneys who will uphold the interpretative changes of the Attorney General. Some of this has gone on already under the new Trump administration, though we do not overlook the fact that the Senate is dragging its feet on more than 70 appointments to these positions and thereby blocking the president’s deportation agenda.

Finally, there are the groups of immigrants and their descendants who have facilitated illegal immigration. Facilitation of breaking American law by an immigrant should lead to that immigrant being expelled from the United States. A Pew study estimates 1.3 million US-born adults live with their illegal alien parents, and a further 3 million lawful immigrants reside in a household with illegal immigrants. The children of illegal immigrants are hardly “Americans” while immigrants who knowingly harbor illegal aliens are violating American law. We have already proposed the denaturalization of the children of illegal aliens, but we should also denaturalize and or deport the 3 million lawful immigrants who reside with an illegal alien. Assuming a similar share of 20% of Asians this would be a group of about 2.25 million people. If we assume overlap with the previous denaturalized group of welfare-dependent migrants, we can assume about 860,000 million more unique denaturalizations and or deportations of legal immigrants. This would increase the total number of potential Asian deportees to roughly 7.86 million people or about 30.2% of the current Asian population.

Next, we present the necessary policy of voluntary remigration which we have championed for some years now. We have already established how many Asians in the United States do not identify as Americans or with America. They feel like an alien population, and the polling reflects this further. Specific data from a 2023 PEW release shows that 78% of Asians in the United States view their ancestral homelands (PEW’s wording) favorably. This poll goes on to show that 26% of Asians in the United States, including 30% of 1^st gen and 14% of 2^nd gen immigrants, would relocate to their ancestral homeland if they could. A 2024 poll by Monmouth University found that 45% of People of Color wanted to leave the United States as opposed to 27% of White Americans. Another poll conducted by the firm Harris in 2025 showed that 61% of Hispanics, 57% of African Americans, and roughly 60% of all people with a minority background in the United States had considered moving abroad. The generations most interested in moving were Gen Z at 63% and Millennials at 52%. Estimates show 80-83% US-born Asians are Zoomers and Millennials. The most cited reasons for considering a move were a lower cost of living (49%), a dissatisfaction with American politics (48%), and a desire for a higher quality of life (43%). When asked the most important factors in considering a move 86% of those wanting to relocate cited the need to find somewhere with a more affordable cost of living. This data suggests in no uncertain terms that many Asian immigrants and their descendants would leave the United States and relocate to their own countries—or elsewhere in the world—if they were given the financial resources to do so.

We propose giving them those resources.

White Papers has proposed and continues to propose a $75,000 Remigration Grant be paid to those post-1965 immigrants and their descendants with American citizenship to leave the country if they so desire. If we assume that the 26% of Asians from the Harris poll were serious about relocating to some degree and we consider the variable incomes of various Asian American groups (extremely high for Indians and Japanese, while low for Bangladeshis and Malays etc.), we can assume that a $75,000 relocation grant will be very enticing to specific demographics of Asians – namely those who struggle the most with integration both social and economic. We estimate that roughly 4 million more post-1965 Asian immigrants and their descendants would take a remigration payment and relocate abroad. This would cost the government roughly $300 billion including the logistics, but this is far cheaper than continuing to host such a large, foreign, discontented population that costs the American taxpayer billions each year.

There would be few logistical challenges as well, as most of these Asians would qualify for citizenship in their ancestral lands, though even if they do not most Asian countries make visas available upon an ethnic basis. For example, any ethnic Korean, regardless of citizenship status in another state, is able to apply for the F-4 visa for Koreans of foreign nationality in the Republic of South Korea. This would enable any American citizen Korean who cannot acquire Korean nationality to relocate to South Korea with extreme ease. Japan has a similar scheme in the form of the long-term resident and child/spouse of a Japanese national visas, which would enable ethnic Japanese of foreign nationality, even spouses of foreign-born Asians, to relocate to Japan with minimal effort. Pakistan and India also have similar schemes of overseas citizenship and identity cares, as we have written about in previous articles.

In total, we estimate that 45.6% of the current Asian population of the United States can be deported as illegals, denaturalized, or enticed to voluntarily remigrate. Of the 14.14 million remaining Asians in the country post-remigration, some 3-3.5 million would have pre-1965 roots and thus be those of the original Asian American communities that existed in the country before the Hart-Celler induced era of mass immigration. Another 30% (4.2 million) would be Asians who have married into the national community by building a life with a native-born American while a further ~20-30% would be the mixed-background children of an Asian immigrant and a native-born American.

In short 85% of the post-remigration Asian population of the United States would have a heritage based or familial connection to the United States. They would be integrated and overwhelmingly American, not strangers occupying our land.

We cannot solve housing crises in California without remigration. We cannot reduce the burden on the state and federal budgets without remigration. We cannot coordinate full employment policies without remigration. We cannot expect to solve the issues of criminality and sexual violence without the large-scale remigration of the worst elements of recent immigrant populations. Most importantly, we cannot secure a future where Americans, patriotic and loyal, remain the overwhelming majority of the population of the United States without a policy of remigration.