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Trump Welcomes Refugees to America! [1]
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Date: 2025-05-10
As the linked NBC News piece above points out:
Under the 1951 Refugee Convention and its 1967 Protocol, a refugee is defined as someone with a “well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion.”
And it shouldn’t come as a surprise that South African Deputy Minister Alvin Botes “disputed the Trump administration’s position that the white South Africans are refugees, adding that the “allegations of discrimination are unfounded.””
Trump Adviser Stephen “Paul Joseph Ghoulbbels” Miller was of course quick to jump to the defense of the administration:
“What’s happening in South Africa fits the textbook definition of why the refugee program was created,” Miller said. “This is race-based persecution. The refugee program is not intended as a solution for global poverty, and historically, it has been used that way.”
So yeah, if all goes according to plan, our first batch of refugees will be flying into Dulles Airport on Monday on a chartered plane — and met by “high level officials from the Departments of State and Homeland Security” complete with a press conference — totally normal.
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