The Trump administration has ordered its embassy in Canberra to collect data on migrant crime in Australia and warned that mass immigration can lead to political unrest and economic instability.
Similar instructions were sent to embassies in Canada, New Zealand and every country in Europe as part of the State Department’s efforts to fight mass migration, which it described last week as an “existential threat to Western civilisation” and said “undermines the stability of key American allies”.
A senior State Department official told The Sydney Morning Herald the US government was concerned about the effects of record-high immigration on Australia’s housing market, and stressed that the Trump administration was focused on both illegal and legal mass migration.
“We love the Australian people … We just want to warn our friends that if you import a rapid number of individuals of any background, particularly of a culture that’s radically different from Australia’s, without any sort of mechanism for diffusing the impact, that can lead to political unrest, that can lead to economic instability,” he said.
“You also have to understand the limitations … and the security concerns that come with mass migration, and what happens when you import a substantial number of people into a very tight, particular area.”
🚨The State Department is calling out destructive ideologies formerly promoted by the Biden Administration that have been used to propagate human rights violations.
President Trump will not allow the mutilation of children, attacks on free speech, and racially discriminatory… pic.twitter.com/lkZNIAGxmK
— Department of State (@StateDept) November 24, 2025
Immigrant crime is rampant across Australia but is often downplayed or covered up by corporate and state media, and state and federal police forces have stopped publishing data on offender nationality or ethnicity.
Victoria has not published nationality data since 2018, when outrage about the state’s African gang crisis, which is still ongoing, led to a coordinated effort by the Labor state government, Victoria Police and the media to stop talking about the problem, and then-Deputy Commissioner Shane Patton lied to the public and claimed the gangs didn’t exist.
Offenders of African background now make up 50% of those in youth detention, despite being less than 0.5% of the population, up from 19% in 2021, and police have admitted in recent weeks that dozens of gangs are active in Melbourne.
Mass migration poses an existential threat to Western civilization and undermines the stability of key American allies.
Today the State Department instructed U.S. embassies to report on the human rights implications and public safety impacts of mass migration.
— Department of State (@StateDept) November 21, 2025
On Saturday the State Department announced it would scrutinise policies in Western nations that “give leniency to migrant crime and human rights abuses or that create two-tiered systems that prioritize migrants at the expense of their own citizens”, highlighting the UK’s Pakistani child rape gangs, and migrant crime in Germany and Sweden.
The State Department has also asked embassies to gather data for its annual human rights report, and is now is classifying “destructive ideologies” formerly promoted by the Biden administration in the US as human rights violations.
These include so-called sex change procedures for minors, arrests for “hate speech”, the facilitation of mass immigration, DEI hiring practices, medical abuses such as organ harvesting, attempts to coerce individuals into euthanasia, and state-funded abortions.
“The Trump administration will not allow these human rights violations, such as the mutilation of children, laws that infringe on free speech, and racially discriminatory employment practices, to go unchecked. We are saying enough is enough,” a State Department official told The Daily Signal last week.
The Australian government said in a statement that the issue had not been formally raised by the Trump administration.
“Australia is a pluralist nation, we welcome different races, religions and views, united by respect for each other’s humanity and for each other’s right to live in peace,” the spokesperson said.
Header image: Left, an African gang member convicted of a Melbourne stabbing murder. Right, a Chinese immigrant who attacked a baby with hot coffee in Brisbane because he was angry at White people.
