The US Is Covertly Propagandising Australians, Whilst Monitoring Our Migrant Crime

The Trump administration sent a cable early last week ordering its embassies and consulates to launch local campaigns to proactively combat propaganda targeting the US. This initiative, of course, includes the US embassy and its consulates in Australia, where Washington is already monitoring the criminal activity of local migrants and taking a keen interest in other aspects of our domestic sphere.

US secretary of state Mark Rubio signed the 30 March 2026 cable, which is an initiative that involves the US Department of War’s Military Information Support Operations or MISO, which was formerly the Pentagon’s Psyops unit. And it also advocates for the use of social media platform X in combating anti-US propaganda, despite its reputation for sharing bigotry and generating deepfake child porn.

The mission has five goals, according to the cable, countering hostile messaging, expanding access to information, exposing adversarial behaviour, elevating the voice of local US supporters and the telling of American stories. To this end, local influencers, academics and community leaders should be utilised to dispel anti-US ideas, so that local pro-US narratives appear to have sprung up organically.

These inroads into the domestic affairs of this country have been ongoing since the second coming of US president Donald Trump in early 2025. Initial forms involved pressure to follow the US on issues like ending diversity in hiring, only recognising two sexes and upping our military spend. But this has shifted to the monitoring of migrant crimes and querying why members of the public aren’t armed.

Ongoing reports about US embassy interference in our domestic sphere have not been addressed by the Albanese government, or hardly any other politician for that matter, as Australia has increasingly become hardwired into the US imperial system, so that any foreign military intervention that it makes necessarily includes Australia, which then makes it difficult to prevent domestic subterfuge.

Combating anti-American sentiment

“These campaigns seek to shift blame to the United States, sow division among allies, promote alternative worldviews antithetical to America’s interests, and even undermine American economic interests and political freedoms,” the Guardian reports the cable as saying. And digital platform use, state-controlled media and specific influence operations are all cited as key forms of disinformation.

Disbanded just prior to Trump’s re-election to president, the US Global Engagement Centre had coordinated these types of activities for global reach in the past. However, the just announced initiative appears to now be outsourcing this task to embassies and consulates across the planet. The incorporation of local influencers has long been used by the US in foreign nations.

Last month, Sarah B Rogers was appointed US undersecretary for public diplomacy, and she has cited countering anti-American propaganda domestically as a “top priority”. Rogers had already singled out antiwar organisation CODEPINK in February this year, claiming that it and other US leftwing organisations are mouthpieces for the Chinese government.

Indeed, the chief culprits listed by the cable as producing and spreading disinformation about the US around the world are China, Iran and Russia. And the highly unpopular US-Israeli war of aggression on Iran, which was launched illegally and with no clear objectives, is an obvious reason why the White House is now scrambling to outsource its combating propaganda mission to its embassies.

The White House further appears to now comprehend that when billionaire Elon Musk, as head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), disbanded USAID, the nation lost much of the soft power the development agency produced for the US. This included distributing US flag branded aid and producing media for foreign nations. Rubio has now directed embassies to commence this work.

The US is monitoring migrant crime

The US State Department already informed its western allies that it would be monitoring their domestic populations for criminal activity that is being perpetrated by migrants. This was announced to the press of the affected nations on 24 November 2025, a week after the department sent a cable to embassies in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and across Europe to inform them of this.

The cable stated it would be collecting data and reporting on “migrant-related crimes and human rights abuse”. These policies are being actioned by a Trump White House that actively promotes white supremacy and has been carrying out a mass deportation drive targeting undocumented migrants, which involves agents often using skin colour as a means of identifying potential migrants.

A US official told the press that “mass migration is an existential threat to western civilization and the safety of both the West and the world”, whilst the White House also wants local politicians to know that the US “stands ready, willing and able to support them in handling what we see as an existential crisis”.

Australian Greens Senator David Shoebridge told Sydney Criminal Lawyers last December that “this is an attempt at direct political interference from the Trump administration to try to impose Donald Trump’s offensive and racist migration and domestic policies on Australia and the rest of the United States.”

“It is extraordinary that the US issued this statement,” the senator added, “and the Albanese Labor government has said absolutely nothing in response.”

Indeed, no other local politicians besides Shoebridge has spoken out about this development, which is just one step away from Washington insisting that if it is concerned about certain activities of nonwhite peoples on this continent and our government is not doing anything about it, then it might reserve its own right to act against these individuals.

US foreign interference the Australian way

The onset of the US-Israeli war on Iran has shown that our government really has no choice but to follow Washington into yet another war. No resistance was forthcoming from Australian PM Anthony Albanese, as he immediately championed the illegal US and Israeli assaults on Iran, which has followed 30 months of perpetrating the ongoing genocide against the Palestinians of Gaza.

Albanese spent last week distancing himself from the illegal war in Iran, stating that Australia is not involved, but then on Good Friday, it came to light that our government had secretly sent a further 90 US special forces troops to the region a fortnight prior, just in case the war on Iran escalates, and while the PM said this was for defensive reasons, these are not defensive troops.

The initial reason why Australia is so shackled to the US is that since the 1960s, the joint surveillance facility Pine Gap has been operating in the middle of this continent, while so has the US naval communications facility at North West Cape. And both these facilities are likely to have been used by the US in its current warring against Iran.

But since 2011 and the Obama administration’s “pivot to Asia”, US presence in this country has risen further and is continuing to spike. There are US troops in the top end, it has unrestricted access to dozens of military bases, our airforce is increasingly interoperable with theirs, US B-52 bombers are being stationed in the north and US submarine bases are being established in the west and the east.

The move towards the US embassy in Canberra, and the US consulates in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth becoming actively engaged in attempting to thwart unwelcome ideas about the United States circulating in Australia, will also see them liaising with local influencers and other figures that might assist in spouting pro-American rhetoric in our public sphere. And this isn’t even the end of it.

Executive Council of Australian Jewry co-chief executive Alex Ryvchin met with Trump administration officials whilst he was in the US on 2 March, to discuss the state of the Australian Jewish community post-the 14 December 2025 Bondi Beach massacre, and a chief concern coming from US officials was why Australian Jews aren’t arming themselves, which, of course, bucks against Australian gun laws.

This again hints at the increasing US foreign interference in Australian domestic affairs. And with the US a notoriously pro-gun society, assertions about Jewish people in Australia arming themselves further translate as why aren’t citizens allowed to. And in terms of concerns about migrant crimes in Australia, this can easily shift to whether our country might need assistance in combating this.

Senator Shoebridge said in December that the discussion of monitoring the crime of migrants reads like the United States wanting to export its internal conflict around undocumented migrants to Australia and other allied nations, and the Greens senator also warned that this nation should rather be distancing itself from the Trump White House. But, of course, we’re now following it into Tehran.