Middle East and Terrorism: Hispanic Mass Migration and Remigration (Part 1)

Tuesday, March 24, 2026

Hispanic Mass Migration and Remigration (Part 1) - White Papers Policy Institute

by White Papers Policy Institute

Mass immigration, driven by elites, has fractured national cohesion—only deliberate reversal, not drift, can restore sovereignty and social trust in the West.

This is part one of a two-part series examining the impacts of decades of mass Hispanic immigration on the U.S. and the policies necessary to reverse those trends.

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 postwar 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. Repatriation must, therefore, happen in a peaceful and just manner that respects the dignity of those being asked and incentivized to leave our nations. Remigration is not inhumane or disparaging of other peoples.

America’s demographics have changed radically since the passage of the 1965 Immigration Act, and it feels appropriate to begin by examining the largest group of recent immigrants and their descendants in the United States—the group America’s (thankfully declining) uniparty elites have imported in record numbers through both legal and illegal channels to change America’s demographic character: Hispanics (Mestizos, Latinos, et al.). ⁱ

When the 1965 Immigration Act was passed, the share of Hispanics in the United States was just 4 percent of the population at the time of the 1960 census. At most, the Hispanic population would have increased to about 8–10 percent today had the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act (also known as the Hart-Celler Act) never passed, according to PEW research and our own demographic projections. The overwhelming majority of those Hispanics in such a scenario would NOT be immigrants or their descendants but true Hispanic Americans, i.e., the descendants of the populations present in the country when the Southwest was annexed. These are the Hispanos, Tejanos, Californios, Chicanos, and others. Instead of modest, natural population shifts that would have seen an extant community of Americans grow in size, the immigration legislation ushered through Congress has resulted in the Hispanic share of the American population surpassing 20 percent of the overall population.

Throughout this piece, there is a data point more relevant than any other: that 33 percent of all Hispanics, and 45 percent of Hispanic adults, in the United States are foreign-born and therefore already hold, or are eligible for, the citizenship of another country. This fact shines a light on the oft-repeated line that so many of these culturally alien groups from Latin America are “Americans,” when the reality is that tens of millions are indeed foreign-born immigrants the American people never consented to admitting into this country. Another 34 percent of the Hispanic population of the United States are the children of immigrants. In total, more than 45.5 million of the 68 million Hispanics in the United States are first- and second-generation immigrants.

For certain, some, if not many, of these 45 million recent first- and second-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 most 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 SIPP survey, as examined by the Center for Immigration Studies, found that 51 percent of legal immigrant households, 69 percent of illegal immigrant households, and 49 percent 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 57 percent of immigrant households from Latin America are using major welfare programs, including 59 percent of Mexican households in the U.S., 49 percent of Cuban households in the U.S., 68 percent of Dominican households in the U.S., and 63 percent of Honduran households in the U.S., to name but a few.

Data from the Center for Immigration Studies

The problem is also intergenerational. The same 2024 data examined by the Center for Immigration Studies found that while 70 percent of Hispanic immigrants would utilize the welfare state at some point, this number only slightly declined to 54 percent for second-generation immigrants (their American-born children) and remained at 53 percent for the third generation (people whose grandparents immigrated to America). 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 57 percent of Hispanic immigrant households are indeed reliant upon public welfare and this persists across generations, then more than 15 million Hispanic 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.

Data from the Center for Immigration Studies

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 as they have for generations, and this simply cannot be achieved when immigrants and their descendants do not identify as Americans. 2020 data from the Pew Research Center shows that among Hispanics in the United States, just 14 percent state their primary identity is American. This increases to only 22 percent among second-generation Hispanics (those born here) and increases slightly to 33 percent among third-generation Hispanics (those with immigrant grandparents). What is most concerning about these trends is that they are in retrograde. Integration is getting worse, not better, as the Hispanic population of the United States grows. In 2013—when 14 million fewer Hispanics lived in the United States—the share of Hispanics who considered their primary identity to be American was 23 percent (nine points higher), while among second-generation Hispanics, 30 percent considered themselves as Americans (seven points higher). Among the third generation, 59 percent considered themselves to be Americans before any other identity (26 points greater than today).

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 Hispanics 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.