Democrats deride “Great Replacement Theory” as a fantasy, but there’s an NGO that literally wants to replace native population decline with foreigners.
The International Institute of St. Louis has a prescription for Missouri communities losing residents: bring in more immigrants.
Its 2025–2027 strategic plan describes increased immigrant resettlement as an opportunity to:
“reverse decades of population decline”
The same blueprint calls for funding changes that would:
“insulate the agency from political and economic circumstances”
Grow the immigrant population. Build the financial means to keep the organization operating through political shifts. Those objectives appear in the same document, which names St. Louis and Springfield as communities central to its work.
The organization pursuing this vision reported $33.3 million in government grants in 2024—roughly 80 percent of its total support and revenue, according to its annual report.
So St. Louis taxpayers are footing the bill to have themselves replaced.
Taxpayers have helped sustain an institution that treats immigration as an answer to the region’s demographic future. Its programs show how that ambition becomes a practical offer to prospective residents.
The institute’s Afghan Support Program encourages families already elsewhere in America to relocate to St. Louis. Its advertised housing assistance:
“Covers up to three months of rent and one security deposit”
The offer includes a rental limit. The page also describes monthly gift cards for each family member until food stamps are approved, bus passes for classes, and help applying for SNAP, Medicaid, and WIC.
Housing support helps families establish themselves. Application assistance connects them with public benefits. Employment services and English classes help them settle into the local workforce.
For residents skeptical of further immigration, this is a concrete policy concern: a nonprofit is assembling the services that make relocation possible, with public-benefit enrollment included in the package.
A July 2026 program account documents one completed move. Nematullah Hussaini, operator of Rasa Cleaning Solution, relocated from Texas through the Afghan Support Program and received a $20,000 business grant.
The account names Jerry Schlichter as a funder of the Afghan Support Program. Representatives from the mayor’s Office of New Americans attended the grant celebration alongside institute leadership and people who had moved from other communities.
Did anyone poll the people of St. Louis to see if they wanted their tax dollars going to lure Afghans to their city?
The program’s thirteenth grant round, with a September 20, 2026 deadline, limited eligibility to Afghans who arrived in the United States after August 2021 and had not previously received one of its grants. Business documentation and proof of arrival were required.
That eligibility restriction deserves scrutiny from local entrepreneurs who cannot apply for the same opportunity.
If this is taxpayer-supported, how can it survive Equal Protection Clause scrutiny if it discriminates on the basis of national origin?
The institute occupies an influential position in Missouri’s refugee system. Since becoming the state’s replacement designee in 2018, it has operated the Missouri Office of Refugee Administration, which distributes federal funds to service providers and monitors their programs.
HHS records list $15,082,407 in award actions during fiscal 2025 under the institute’s name, with further cash-and-medical-assistance funding recorded in 2026.
This one tiny NGO in one state is spending $15 million to import Muslims as an explicit replacement for the locals. I assume they hope Afghans improve Democrat chances in the state the same way Somalis have done in Minnesota.
These awards cover refugee programs, including statewide administration. The records do not establish that government grants paid for Move2STL or the Afghan relocation package.
The institution’s dependence on government money, however, is clear.
Democrats haven’t won Missouri at the presidential level since Clinton won in 1996 (and even then, he needed help from Ross Perot), though Obama lost the state by less than 4,000 votes in 2008.
Obviously, the increasing Republican trend of Missouri is intolerable to the social justice Democrats, and their fix is not to moderate their positions, but to import more Muslims into the area.
And they want taxpaying citizens to foot the bill.
(Hat tip: Director Blue.)