Statement of Principles & Priorities on Global Mass Migration

5/2/2026

On this occasion, Friends to Liberty joins concerned groups and citizens from all over the world who have pledged to come together to address a common problem—the destructive impact and consequences of mass migration.

This is the World We Face.

Mass Migration. We are confronting a migration crisis of unprecedented magnitude, with the unlawful movement of persons by the millions affecting nations around the world.

Human Rights. Chief among the victims of mass migration are migrants themselves. The migration crisis is a human-trafficking crisis abetted and executed by cartels, syndicates, and governments. The assertion of a nonexistent “right to migrate” exacerbates the toll of tragedy.

Meanwhile, legitimate claims to refuge and asylum, and the systems that facilitate them, are eclipsed and weakened.

Debilitating Impact on Society. Mass migration distorts labor markets, wages, employment, charities, and social-safety nets, at the expense of citizens.

Weaponization of Mass Migration. Adversarial regimes have adopted mass migration as a weapon to destabilize other countries, in part as a vector for terrorist activity and organized crime.

National Sovereignty. Mass migration is an existential threat to nationhood. It threatens cultural identity, erodes social cohesion, disrupts community, and dilutes national identity. No nation can persist in being without control of its borders and the fundamental political prerogative of
deciding who is allowed to enter and remain, and on what terms.

Global Health. Mass migration is powerful vector for communicable diseases.

This is the Response We Need.

Protect national sovereignty and reject efforts that undermine a nation’s right to protect its borders. Reject any effort to establish a right to migrate.

Expose and oppose non-governmental and international and multi-national organizations that promote and facilitate mass migration. Demand cooperation between countries of origin, transit, and destination. Combat, individually and collectively, transnational criminal activity, illicit networks, and adversarial states engaged in exploiting mass migration.

Reject efforts to distort refugee and asylum policies to enable mass migration, including rejecting the false notion of climate refugees. Call for measures and actions that will confront the abuse of migration guarantees by illegitimate groups or malicious governments that weaponize provoked migration against their opponents.

Support efforts to combat human trafficking and enslavement. Proponents of mass migration as a right overlook or dismiss the immense human hardship and disruption of families and communities caused by unrestricted, irregular, and forced migration.

Promote credible research on migration issues. Rather than partisan diatribes, policy should be led by informed, credible research which fully documents the costs, consequences, and impacts of unrestricted, irregular, and forced migration.