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The Trump administration is advancing plans to resettle an additional 10,000 white South Africans in the United States as refugees. Under President Trump’s proposal, which was submitted to Congress on Monday, the U.S. would lift its record-low refugee admissions figure from 7,500 to 17,500, with the additional openings reserved for Afrikaners. This comes as the administration continues to block the entry of refugees from other countries. The U.S. has resettled just over 6,000 refugees between October and April — all except three were from South Africa. Trump has said Afrikaners face racial persecution and genocide in South Africa, claims that have been rejected by the U.N. Human Rights Office, among others. Last year, he cut off aid to the country and boycotted the G20 summit in Johannesburg.
“Whiteness is being recast as endangered,” says Lebohang Pheko, a professor of practice at the University of Johannesburg. “There is a move towards the alt-right, the MAGA discourse, which is about replacement theory, and which is absolutely about displacing the idea that anything other than whiteness is normative.” Pheko also suggests that Trump’s actions toward South Africa are retribution for the genocide case it brought against Israel at International Court of Justice.
“We are processing resettlement cases for white Afrikaners at a record pace,” adds Sharif Aly, president of the International Refugee Assistance Project, which is currently litigating a class-action lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s dismantling of the United States refugee program. “This program has never been a fast program, and it’s being expedited for just this one population.” While Afrikaners are being quickly resettled, “thousands of other people who have went through years of vetting, who have went through years of persecution and violence,” are being blocked from entering the U.S., says Aly.
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The SA president has a court case pending where USD500m was found in a sofa in his home…no south african citizen is interested in what he has got to say anylonger. Apartheid in reverse in South Africa.
The Afrikaners are the most hard working people I know.
Let him take more of them, maybe that will free up the stolen lands in the hands of the colonizers in South Africa.
He’s the president it’s his country if he doesn’t want to allow the whole world in he’s not obligated too there’s other countries in the world than the US you know
trump racist? Amerika racist? That can't be true!
Why while people?
Plz take them fast
Karma takes on average 10 life times!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!&usa 😅s already racist?
What if South Africa says no? They have to much invested in their White South Africans and don't want them to leave.
I can only laugh, to not go insane in this world. I give you a great spoken word by our great Maya Angelou that helps me survive.
When I think about myself,
I almost laugh myself to death,
My life has been one great big joke,
A dance that's walked
A song that's spoke,
I laugh so hard I almost choke
When I think about myself.
Sixty years in these folks' world
The child I works for calls me girl
I say 'Yes ma'am' for working's sake.
Too proud to bend
Too poor to break,
I laugh until my stomach ache,
When I think about myself.
My folks can make me split my side,
I laughed so hard I nearly died,
The tales they tell, sound just like lying,
They grow the fruit,
But eat the rind,
I laugh until I start to crying,
When I think about my folks.
so much tension here
All of you are a bunch of hypocrites and liars.
And many of the SAs went back.
Thats a drop in a bucket of water. There are millions of Afrikaners that won't leave. More white Afrikaner babies will be born than what Trump's refugee program will ever try to import to the US. Most Afrikaners will never leave.
This always needs an explanation. Full blown White Supremacy. The real question should be: “ Is this the Trump’s administration Final Solution “‼️
This is VERY VERY OLD
There have been hundreds of thousands of mrders of South Africans in their own homeland by the pale skin man since they stole and colonised the country. If only sunscreen did not exist the African sun would be pale skins natural klller.
IMPORTING MORE RACISTS VOTERS
mango hitler allowing colonizers in who is surprised
Let them go
But if they're black or brown?
Only Donald could be Impeached twice and STILL be an unnatural color.
They are people that need help it's not racism my God your peoples brains are warped you have the mind virus bad if you believe this shit you're a brainwashed idiot
Are these White Immigrants joinng the US Agro industries? There is no subsistence farming in the US. How will they feed their families? Some White South African refugees, 2025, left America due to high Cost of Living in 2026? Is the US buying the South African farmlands of these Africanners?? And in return relocating them to the US?? Please Research this angle. Also, US wants control of Cape of Good Hope @ PORT. ARE THESE WHITES BEING RADICALICED IN THE US AND THEN GOING BACK TO SOUTH AFRICA WITH EVEN MORE RADICAL VIEWS TO CAUSE CHAOS AND UNREST IN BLACK SOUTH AFRICA
STOP THE 400 YEAR ANGLO AMERICAN TYRANNY OF WHITE CHRISTIANS AGAINST ALL OTHER GLOBAL SOUTH PEOPLE AND THEIR RELIGIONS.
THIS IS THE WEST'S 'MONOPOLY OVER VIOLENCE'
WHITE SUPREMACY IS ALL ABOUT GREED, HATE AND VIOLENCE. NOTHING ELSE.
NOT ONE WORD THAT COMES OUT OF THE WEST IS BELIEVED BY GLOBAL SOUTH
ELON HAD MAJOR PLASTIC SURGERY DONE TO HIS FACE. THE 2 PHOTOS YOU SHOWED HAS NO RESEMBLES TO EACH OTHER. IT'S LIKE TWO DIFFERENT PEOPLE.
Bringing in all the racist. 😂😂😂