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Will someone please think of the poor, defenseless white South Africans? [1]
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Date: 2025-05-07
So much for “give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” Instead give me your white supremacists who are annoyed and inconvenienced by the efforts of the South African government to right the wrongs of the past. They’re the true victims of systemic racism.
Donald Trump, ever concerned with fairness, with morality, with law and order, and no doubt spurred by South African expat Elon Musk, has decided to do something to help those victims of racism in South African.
Katya Schwenk reports for the Lever.
As ... Donald Trump tries to bar almost all refugees from entering the country, his administration is planning to use federal funds reserved for sick, elderly, and at-risk refugee populations to facilitate an influx of white South Africans within days [of May 6, 2025], according to a government source and an internal memo viewed by The Lever. The first group of Dutch-descended Afrikaners is scheduled to arrive in the United States imminently, and they will be receiving emergency support from the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement, a division of the Department of Health and Human Services, according to the memo, which was signed by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy and Office of Refugee Resettlement assistant secretary Andrew Gradison. The move follows Trump’s February executive order demanding humanitarian relief for Afrikaners. Trump booster Elon Musk — himself a South African immigrant — has said South Africa’s government was unfair and racist to white people.
And by the way, Musk’s own immigration history is so murky that Snopes can’t say for sure that it’s true or false that Musk was once an undocumented immigrant. With help from Trump and his maladministration, other South African immigrants won’t have to be in any sort of “gray area” like Musk was once in.
Since the executive order, U.S. officials have been interviewing white South African applicants who claim to have faced racial discrimination in postapartheid South Africa. At the same time, refugees from the rest of the world, some of whom have been waiting for years to enter the country, have been left in limbo after Trump in January suspended the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program, affecting an estimated 20,000 refugees set to travel to the U.S. — including 12,000 who already had flights booked. That ban is currently being challenged in court.
And you know how much respect Trump has for court rulings, including Supreme Court rulings.
In the April 30 memo, which has not previously been reported, officials with the Office of Refugee Resettlement wrote to Kennedy, requesting approval for the “mobilization of immediate support for vulnerable incoming Afrikaner refugees,” including “housing, health services, and resettlement support upon their arrival.” The group of Afrikaners, officials wrote, was slated to arrive “within a few days of this memo,” and therefore officials needed approval to make emergency arrangements outside of typical refugee resettlement protocol. Kennedy signed and approved the document that day. According to a government source familiar with the plans, the Office of Refugee Resettlement has preliminary arrangements to use funds from a program called Preferred Communities to resettle the Afrikaners. The program’s website notes that it is for the most vulnerable refugees arriving in the U.S., including “those with serious medical conditions, women at risk, and elderly refugees.” The agency is preparing to resettle as many as 1,000 Afrikaners this year, the source said.
Just in case anyone has forgotten, Schwenk mentions that
Afrikaners, the descendants of Dutch settlers in South Africa, codified the nation’s apartheid racial segregation system in 1948 and subsequently subjected the country’s Black population to mass evictions and brutal segregation.
The poor white South Africans are still suffering!
Even decades after the end of the apartheid system, white South Africans still own more than 70 percent of the country’s agricultural land, despite making up less than 10 percent of the overall population. The government’s efforts at land redistribution — including a new January land reform law — are designed to address this disparity.
Fleeing violence in countries like Afghanistan or El Salvador and fearing for your life? Tough luck. Are you a buddy of Elon Musk miffed by land redistribution? Come on over to America.
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