On May 30, around 500 far-right activists and their supporters traveled to Porto, Portugal, for the second annual Remigration Summit. Speakers focused on implementing policies of “remigration,” a call for ethnic cleansing which involves the forced removal of immigrants, refugees, and even citizens based on race, ethnicity, or perceived cultural belonging in their respective countries. The conference drew several American speakers and attendees, namely former Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino, who oversaw Trump’s mass deportation operation from October 2025 to January 2026. Bovino’s tenure was made infamous by the fatal shootings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good, two American citizens, by agents under his watch.
The Remigration Summit account on X advertises former Trump Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino as a speaker. From left to right: Italian Andrea Ballarati, Austrian Martin Sellner, American Gregory Bovino, Portuguese Afonso Gonçalves. (Source: X).
“Remigration,” once confined to neo-Nazi and white supremacist circles, has been repackaged as a legitimate policy framework within far-right politics in Europe and the United States. Alternative für Deutschland (Alternative for Germany, AfD) leader Alice Weidel endorsed remigration as policy, the leader of Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs (Freedom Party of Austria, FPÖ) called for the “remigration of uninvited strangers,” former Lega per Salvini Premier (League for Salvini Premier) MEP Roberto Vannacci founded Futuro Nazionale (National Future, FN), which calls for the remigration of immigrants “who do not integrate and assimilate,” and the U.S. State Department opened an Office of Remigration while Trump enacts his mass deportation strategy.
Remigration is rooted in the white supremacist “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory, which purports a planned “replacement” of white people by politicians and other “elites.” Jews are often targeted as driving this “plan.” Remigration is a series of policy proposals, drafted by Austrian Identitarian and “former” neo-Nazi Martin Sellner, to end the so-called “replacement” by purging the continent of non-white people and eliminating all forms of multiculturalism. The goal is to make countries “European again.” Believers in the conspiracy theory have committed several acts of targeted mass violence against Muslims, Jews, LGBTQ+ people, Black people, and others. The Christchurch, N.Z., mosque shooter, who murdered 51 Muslims in 2019, donated €1,500 to the Austrian Identitarian movement and exchanged a series of friendly emails with Sellner.
The conference was organized by the European white nationalist Identitarian movement, namely Afonso Gonçalves, founder and president of the Portuguese Identitarian movement Reconquista (Reconquest). Among its sponsors were the American-based White Papers Policy Institute (WPPI), Identitarian media organization Filmkunstkollektiv (Film Art Collective), Reconquista, Swiss neo-Nazi group Junge Tat (Youth Action), French Identitarian organization Polémia, the Institute for Remigration (IFR), Deutschland Kurier (Germany Courier), and counter/cut. In the closing address, Belgian Identitarian Dries van Langenhove mentions an anonymous “Catholic and American” benefactor “who rightfully believes that we are all united in this struggle as Europeans.”
A list of the event’s sponsors includes several Identitarian organizations, such as the American-based White Papers Policy Institute (WPPI), neo-Nazi Swiss group Junge Tat (Youth Action), and Sellner’s newly founded Institute for Remigration (IFR). (Source: Remigration Summit).
Speakers Celebrate Trump As “Proof” Remigration Can Happen
This year’s Remigration Summit was dedicated solely to making remigration a reality transnationally, with the United States viewed as “proof” that their ethnic cleansing aspirations are possible.
Speaking on the similarities between the goals of the European far right and the Trump administration, retired Chief Patrol Agent of the U.S. Border Patrol Gregory Bovino made it clear they share the same ethnic cleansing aspirations, saying “that problem [immigration] is the same in the United States as it is in Europe.” The difference is, according to Bovino, that the United States elected a president who campaigned on remigration: “80 million people voted for remigration. As we say in the U.S., mass deportations.” As a result, remigration has been “proof tested” by the United States and can now be done in Europe. Bovino’s speech, which received a standing ovation from the conference’s attendees, demonstrated how the European far right is inspired by Trump’s mass deportation operation in pursuing their own goal of remigration across the continent. Bovino claimed to have conversations with Sellner about their ideas, which “mirror each other,” and offered himself as help to others in the audience in case they needed advice on how to conduct mass deportation operations.
Gregory Bovino speaks to the Remigration Summit attendees about the shared goals of the American and European far right. (Source: Remigration Summit).
American Cyan Quinn of the White Papers Policy Institute spoke for the second time in as many years at the Remigration Summit. While she focused on the economics of remigration in last year’s event, this year she explored how she believes remigration can help return traditional gender roles to white people in the United States and Europe. She opened her address with a quote by former U.S. Representative Steve King (R-IA), in which he said “We can’t restore our civilization with someone else’s babies.” Quinn clearly believes that white women need to have more babies to halt the “Great Replacement” (pro-natalism is a core tenet of the conspiracy theory), and this is hindered by institutions encouraging women, in Quinn’s words, “to take positions they may not even want,” such as in law enforcement and on company boards. Instead, women should stay out of the workforce, get married, and have more children. Regarding foreigners, Quinn believes “remigration creates optimism.” She cited Trump’s 2016 election victory as an optimistic sign for white people, as, according to her, the following years saw decreased Hispanic birth rates, while non-Hispanic birth rates increased (this earned an applause from the audience). As she closed out her address, Quinn said “Diversity undermines continuity,” meaning she believes having non-white people in her country undermines white people’s existence.
Stefano Forte, president of the New York Young Republican Club (NYYRC), which endorsed the Remigration Summit last year, used his allotted time to attack Muslims living in New York. He cited “feminist politicians wear[ing] a hijab on TV,” “40 percent of New Yorkers speak[ing] a language at home other than English,” and “the anti-American radical Islamic migrant mayor Zohran Mamdani” as reasons remigration is necessary. Forte frames diversity as an existential crisis, saying “this is no longer about politics…this is about survival.” The solution for Forte, aside from remigration, is to place his faith in Trump, who he believes “is responsible for the emergence of the new right throughout the world” and called Trump “our champion.” The Nouvelle Droite, French for “New Right,” describes an emerging Identitarian movement which began in the late 1960s.
Joey Mannarino, a MAGA influencer speaking on the Remigration Summit’s influencer panel, used his time to encourage the audience to “get the freaking people who don’t belong in Europe and America out of these countries” and “preserve western civilization.” He claims, “remigration is actually a very moderate solution” (“moderate solution” is a term used by the far right to denote the existence of a more extreme, and often violent, method to achieving their goals), and that migrants are “engaged in a war against us [white people].”
The Remigration Summit was hosted by Portugual’s Manuel Morgado, a local coordinator for Students For Liberty, an American youth libertarian organization.
The Next Phase of Identitarian Organizing
Martin Sellner and Dutch Identitarian Eva Vlaardingerbroek were at the forefront of new Identitarian initiatives presented at the conference. Sellner officially launched the Institute for Remigration (IFR), which he described as a pressure group inspired by the National Rifle Association (NRA), an American gun lobby group. According to Sellner, IFR will focus on three “strategic pillars,” consisting of “research on policy,” “networking,” and “campaigning and organizing.” The end goal of IFR is to translate metapolitical victories (such as making remigration a mainstream term) into political action, which Sellner describes as “gather[ing] the remigration vote.” The IFR will “reward” politicians who embrace remigration, and “punish” those who do not. The Institute for Remigration is clearly an Identitarian project, with Sellner as its CEO and former IB Vienna leader Philipp Huemer as its Managing Director.
Similarly, Vlaardingerbroek and Sellner launched the “Save Europe Act,” a European Citizens’ Initiative described as “a legislative framework restoring sovereign borders, lawful order, and the continuity of European civilization.” The Act, if it reaches one million EU-based signatures once formally submitted, will force the consideration of several articles in EU parliament, including measures to: “declare a formal moratorium on new non-Western/non-European immigration channels,” facilitate a “total reform of the current migration framework focusing on external border protection” and “immediate return mechanisms,” “ensure the systematic and accelerated return (remigration) of illegally staying migrants,” “establish a harmonized EU-wide framework for broader remigration,” and “remove social welfare incentives and benefits that function as pull factors for migration… and encourage remigration.” These articles bear a close resemblance to Sellner’s remigration policy proposal, which begins with expelling asylum seekers from Europe and finishes with eliminating “parallel societies” (i.e., non-white communities). Save Europe Act’s first signers include politicians and influencers from around Europe, with a few from the United States, such as MAGA influencers Joey Mannarino and Jack Posobiec. Other notable signatories are Restore Britain leader Rupert Lowe, Manuel Corchia of the Swiss neo-Nazi group Junge Tat, and leader of Identitäre Bewegung Deutschland (German Identitarian Movement, IBD) Maximilian Märkl. The website’s Imprint page shows the initiative is represented by Vincenzo Richter, the chairman of Identitäre Bewegung Saxony.
Some of the first signers of the Save Europe Act are prominent politicians, such Rupert Lowe, Bjorn Hocke, Lidewij de Vos, and Roberto Vannacci. (Source: Save Europe Act).
Louise Garnier, leader of the right-wing student organization l’Union nationale inter-universitaire (National Inter-University Union, UNI), announced the launch of a “new French national Identitarian movement,” to be made official in a few weeks. Génération Identitaire (Generation Identity, GI), the previous French national Identitarian movement, was dissolved by the French government in 2021 for “inciting hate, violence or discriminations of individuals based on origins, race or religion.”
Full List of Speakers
Austria: Martin Sellner (Institute for Remigration, Identitäre Bewegung Österreich)
Belgium: Dries van Lagenhove (Schild & Vrienden)
Canada: Daniel Tyrie (Dominion Society of Canada)
France: Louise Garnier (UNI), Jean-Yves Le Gallou (Polémia)
Germany: Björn Höcke (AfD), Lena Kotré (AfD), Maximilian Märkl (Identitäre Bewegung Deutschland)
Italy: Andrea Ballarati (Giovani Identitari), Lorenzo Caccialupi (Influencer), Roberto Vannacci (Futuro Nazionale)
Netherlands: Lidewij De Vos (FvD), Matthias Victorian (Code Victorian), Eva Vlaardingerbroek
Portugal: Afonso Gonçalves (Reconquista), Manuel Morgado (Students for Liberty)
Slovakia: Milan Mazurek (Republika)
Spain: Rocio De Meer (VOX)
Switzerland: Manuel Corchia (Junge Tat)
United Kingdom: Angloid (Influencer), Lucy White (Restore Britain), Sammy Woodhouse (Restore Britain)
United States: Stefano Forte (New York Young Republican Club), Joey Mannarino (MAGA Influencer), Cyan Quinn (White Papers Policy Institute)
