Trump Administration to Monitor Crimes by Migrants in Australia

The key issue driving the authoritarianism of the second coming of the US Trump administration is mass migration, which involves stoking fears in respect of it and the dehumanisation of undocumented migrants. The US is also in the midst of a soft colonisation of northern Australia, and it now has plans to interfere in our domestic policy via monitoring migrants in respect of crime.

During a 24 November 2025 press briefing at the Washington Foreign Press Centre, a senior US official advised that the US State Department had, the week prior, sent a cable to US embassies in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and throughout Europe, ordering them to collect data and report “on migrant-related crimes and human rights abuses” in the country they’re based in.

The official underscored that “mass migration is an existential threat to Western civilization and the safety of both the West and the world”, which is a broad net for one nation to assume responsibility for, and the other chief concern was to ensure that diplomats let the local nation know that the US “stands ready, willing and able to support them in handling what we see as an existential crisis”.

That the US military has been and continues to be asserting control in the north of the continent, and that this growing authority is heading south in respect of proposed submarine bases on the west and east of this landmass, means that this assertion to start monitoring Australians of non-European descent is only a step away from asserting US jurisdiction locally to take action against them.

“The Trump administration is very committed to addressing human rights concerns wherever and whenever they find them,” the senior US state department official further advised just to highlight wandering jurisdiction is potentially on the cards. “And there’s a particular concern, as the president and the secretary have stated over and over again, with the mass migration crisis in Europe.”

Dehumanising those of a “migration background”

“We are particularly concerned about not only the violation of national sovereignty, which in itself is already an egregious violation of basic rights and the rights of sovereign citizens in these countries, but also human rights abuses and what we see as very egregious human rights concerns surrounding mass migration and the facilitation of mass migration,” the US state department official declared.

This speech was provided to major news outlets across the nations captured by the policy to monitor citizens and noncitizens in other countries, who commit crimes or rights abuses and are classified as “people of a migration background”.

This blunt tool of a policy fails to acknowledge First Nations peoples, and it considers Australians of European descent not to be of a migration background.

The announcement has cast doubt over migrants, or more precisely locals of non-European descent, especially as it details what sort of behaviour they are supposedly at risk of committing, which firstly comprises of sexual assault, especially “violent sexual aggravated attacks” on women and girls, and they suggested these are more likely to be committed by “people of extremist Islamic background”.

In terms of people of migration background in Australia and elsewhere, the Trump administration is further concerned with “everything from violent rape gangs and organised rape gangs in the United Kingdom to targeting of young girls in other countries” and further, “instances of human trafficking, antisemitic and anti-Christian attacks, largely by people of radical Islamic backgrounds”.

Further things nonwhite migrants are suggested to be up to, according to the White House, are the displacement of white nationals, due to migrant propensity to take over housing stock, as well as to influence property values to drop, and then there is the suggested issue of a two-tiered justice system operating that serves to treat migrants in a more lenient manner in the courts.

“We think it’s about time that for the sake of our allies, for the sake of their citizens, for the sake of our friends, someone said something about this,” the state department official made clear. “And at the same time, the negligence on this issue, the mass migration crisis, by the human rights community, by the international community, has been glaring.”

Exporting racialised authoritarianism down under

The US state department official added that US president Donald Trump and US secretary of state Mark Rubio are wanting to help their friends in other countries, yet if the US is to maintain “a strong alliance” in nations like Australia, then a “strong citizenry” is needed. So, the ultimate aim is to “end the scourge of mass migration” in this country, which does require the highlighting of it as a problem.

The official underscored that this policy shows how seriously the US is in tackling mass migration and they further implied that Australia should be doing the same, as this mass migration crisis is threatening democracy in general, along with sovereignty, representation and human rights.

In response to a question from the Herald’s Michael Koziol, the official added that “certainly” the US is “watching the housing issues in Australia”. They then made clear that if Australia imports “a rapid number of individuals of any background”, in particular those of a “radically different” culture, then this can “lead to political unrest” and “economic instability”, and Australia needs to be aware of this.

“As far as what we’re going to be using the data for, obviously it’s going to feed into our reporting, like the human rights reports,” the official further elaborated. “And let’s be very clear: mass migration is a human rights concern.”

The official then listed the key impacts that these concerns raise, which are those upon women and girls, religious freedoms, property rights, national security, crime, human trafficking, and in fact, on “a whole slew of human rights issues”.

“So, we’re going to be using this stuff in our human rights reporting,” the official rounded off in response to the question from the Australian journalist.

“The data that we collect is going to be a resource for our diplomats around the world as they engage with governments and for our political appointees back in Washington as we craft policy that we will be sharing with the White House and the interagency to serve the American people.”

Surviving the “white apocalypse”

A rising white Australian nationalist movement has been mobilising locally, ever since hundreds of thousands of the constiuency marched across the Sydney Harbour Bridge on 3 August 2025, calling for an end to the Israeli genocide against the Palestinians of Gaza. This rally had been exceptionally successful, and it sent a message to the planet that the Trump administration likely didn’t appreciate.

This Sunday will see the fourth such nationwide majority Anglo Celtic Australian antiimmigration rally in as many months. This time it’s under the banner of Put Australia First. Notorious UK white supremacist Tommy Robinson, who is waging a similar campaign in England at the moment, will be making a video appearance at the rallies.

Meanwhile, tech billionaire and Trump White House insider Elon Musk made a televised appearance at the largest antiimmigration demonstration ever in UK history in September, and he spoke with Robinson, who was leading the event, and then further called upon white British people to rise up and overthrow their government in order to put an end to mass migration.

The logic of the Australian white nationalist movement is about as logical as the Trump administration’s policy on migration, as both consider the landmass they exist upon are somehow the ancestral homelands of white people, who are now supposedly being swamped by people of colour. Yet, the sovereign peoples of these lands are the First Peoples still existing on them.

The Trump administration has been inserting its influence into Australian civil society, via threats to withdraw funding from universities that don’t abide by its policies of recognising only two possible sexes and ending DEI or diversity, equality and inclusion frameworks, and its pressed hard for the federal government to increase the percentage of GDP it spends on defence.

The idea that the Albanese government’s sudden tabling of three rights-stripping antirefugee bills in December last year had been influenced by the Trump administration’s re-election was a bit of a stretch.

But to consider Trump’s immigrant deportation drive launched early this year has influenced Labor’s recent decision to pay Nauru to become an openair prison detaining criminalised asylum seekers seems plausible.

So, now the Australian polity has clear proof that the US wants to intervene in its migration policy and to commence embroiling itself in local criminal justice matters, and while they won’t admit it, the ministers of the Albanese cabinet, on receiving notice of this extraterritorial US policy, would have been well aware of the threat of US jurisdictional encroachment on this continent that it poses.