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Demovictory9

(35,651 posts)
Fri May 9, 2025, 02:00 AM 9 hrs ago

Trump admin flying in white south Afrikaner "refugees" next week

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/world/africa/trump-afrikaner-refugees.html

Trump Officials Seek to Bring First White Afrikaner Refugees to U.S. Next Week

The rapid relocation of the Afrikaners, who President Trump says have been racially persecuted in South Africa, stands in stark contrast to the virtual shutdown of all other refugee admissions.


The Trump administration is working to bring the first group of white South Africans it has classified as refugees to the United States early next week, according to officials briefed on the plans and documents obtained by The New York Times.

Although the president halted virtually all other refugee admissions shortly after he took office in January, his administration hastily put together a program to allow in white South Africans, who he claims have been the victims of racial persecution in their home country.

The administration plans to send government officials to Washington Dulles International Airport in Virginia for an event marking the arrival of the South Africans, who belong to the white minority Afrikaner ethnic group, according to the memo from the Department of Health and Human Services. The administration initially planned to welcome the Afrikaners on Monday, but some officials familiar with the matter cautioned that the plans remained in flux, subject to flight logistics and processing of the group.

The arrival of the Afrikaners would cement Mr. Trump’s efforts to upend a program that for decades has allowed thousands of people fleeing war, famine and natural disaster to find safe haven in the United States.
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Trump admin flying in white south Afrikaner "refugees" next week (Original Post) Demovictory9 9 hrs ago OP
Give us a break Dan 9 hrs ago #1
No shit... 2naSalit 6 hrs ago #3
PIG! elleng 9 hrs ago #2
That is all we need, more white male racist/sexist jackasses. Irish_Dem 4 hrs ago #4
And fast-track them to citizenship, allowing them to vote. no_hypocrisy 4 hrs ago #5

Dan

(4,673 posts)
1. Give us a break
Fri May 9, 2025, 02:03 AM
9 hrs ago

We don't have enough home grown bigots that we have to import new ones.

Wait until they express their bigotry combined with sense of entitlement to the wrong people.

no_hypocrisy

(51,450 posts)
5. And fast-track them to citizenship, allowing them to vote.
Fri May 9, 2025, 06:41 AM
4 hrs ago

And to discriminate against non-whites in THIS country.

We're importing racists.

Sick.

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