Rolling out the red carpet
Sigh. Of course he is.
The first group of white South Africans who[m] the Trump administration is classifying as refugees are expected to arrive in the United States on Monday.
President Donald Trump suspended refugee admissions from most other nations when he took office. But in a February executive order, Trump said the U.S. would establish a plan to resettle “Afrikaners” and their families as refugees in the United States.
Afrikaners are mainly of Dutch descent. The Trump administration has accused the South African “government-sponsored race-based discrimination” and pledged to cut off all aid and assistance.
Other refugees can fuck off, but the racist ones with the loathsome history are more than welcome.
According to the New York Times, a group of 54 Afrikaners were due to depart from Johannesburg on Sunday. The Washington Post reported that a group of 60 Afrikaners would be arriving on a State Department plane on Monday to an airport just outside of Washington.
The State Department declined in an email to confirm the reports or say how many South Africans would be coming and when they would arrive.
Don’t even think about giving me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. The hell with them. But your uncomfortable racists? The doors are wide open!
A spokesperson said in response to a request for comment that the U.S. Embassy in Pretoria, South Africa had been conducting interviews and processing applications of individuals who have expressed interest in moving to the United States. The State Department said in its statement that it is prioritizing Afrikaners in South Africa who[m] it views as victims of unjust racial discrimination.
Does USA Today have a rule against ever using “whom”?
That seems like a pitifully small number of “refugees”… Guessing that whatever tensions the Boer population has with the rest of South Africa exist, most of them prefer to stay.
It probably helps that they are white.
BKiSA: most of them probably don’t see the point, as the USA is not going to give them their stuff back, even with Trump at the wheel. It’s not possible.
I suspect that these ‘refugees’ will, in the main, be a bunch of rand-less ‘losers’ — chronic failures and chancers, like Trump, in whatever business they have been involved in, as well as fervent racists who dislike black people having any kind of power. No doubt they like the idea of following in the footsteps of such as Peter Thiel & Elon Musk, and their little army of eugenicists and Muskovites, who include J.D. Vance, Thiel’s casting-couch protégé, and the other Elocs — sorry, Morlocks — in Trump’s Little Cabinet of Horrors and DEI Hires , the latest of whom may be Casey Means, a woman who worships spirits and trees and has consequently been recommended by Robert F. Kennedy to be the new Surgeon General.
It seems, by the way, that white farmers own almost three-quarters of South Africa’s agricultural land, even after 23 years of government efforts to redistribute land to the black majority.