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This is a weak argument. If you apply remigration outside of European borders, ancestral Europeans in the US, South America and especially Orania would have to remigrate back to Europe.

Often those populations are far removed from the current culture that dominates in Europe (e.g. Amish in the US as an extreme example). The historic case of Volga Germans going back to Germany post WWII is a case in point. They were more Russian than German at the time.

Remigration is a weak concept. The focus instead should be on more forceful assimilation of migrant populations (e.g. language requirements as a bare minimum, but also skills tests (perhaps along the lines of a points based system). Rather than doing this only at the point of entry, there should be regular follow ups with all members of the family (e.g. kids and accompanying spouses). There should be a case for 'failing assimilation standards' so that individuals and families who haven't sufficiently integrated need to pack bags.

I know this is probably against the whole premise of pure ethnoracial borders that some people are proponents of, but migration, as you point out, has existed forever and nations/regions need to adapt to this. Without migration many European countries would have rapidly shrinking populations (see Russia), so it's just no realistic or feasible to do away with migration if you look at it from a pragmatic perspective.

Lastly, heavy assimilation has the support of many more of the population therefore it is actually politically feasible. Remigration is not.

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