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The Trump administration has announced that, as part of its reorganization of the State Department (along with the now familiar gutting of important programs and firing of topic-area experts), it plans to create what it calls an “Office of Remigration.” Arguments over semantics—the “really real” meaning of a word—are infamously academic, smacking of jargon and insider pretensions. Yet, words are always more than words, and at times certain words reveal far more than intended.