Should white South Africans be given refugee status into the US?

HomerJS · Mar 24, 2025

Trump deporting people of color but wants to give whites from South Africa refugee status for express entry into the US

Should this be allowed in light of Trump’s crackdown on all other people coming into the country and his mass deportations on people of color?

67,000 white South Africans express interest in Trump's plan to give them refugee status

The U.S. Embassy in South Africa says it has received a list of more than 67,000 people interested in refugee status in the U.S. under President Donald Trump’s plan to relocate members of a white minority group he claims are victims of racial discrimination by their Black-led government.

apnews.com

nickqt · Mar 24, 2025

Just what we need, more Apartheid-Americans like Musk and Thiel.

trenchfoot · Mar 24, 2025

And to think Trump has only been in office for what, ~3 months and look at the damage he's wrecked the nation with both domestically and internationally. I wonder what our nation will look like at the end of this year and I wonder what Ukraine will look like around then.

So messed up for no good reason whatsoever.

I feel South Africans in general should be able to seek refuge just like any other foreigner and not because Trump simply wants to make his South African racist billionaire financier happy. If they have a valid reason to seek refugee status in the USA, no harm in trying. Am I missing something here?

HomerJS · Mar 24, 2025

nickqt said:
Just what we need, more Apartheid-Americans like Musk and Thiel.

Benefits for whitey. Consequences for people of color. But Trump's not racist, right??

HomerJS · Mar 24, 2025

trenchfoot said:
And to think Trump has only been in office for what, ~3 months and look at the damage he's wrecked the nation with both domestically and internationally. I wonder what our nation will look like at the end of this year and I wonder what Ukraine will look like around then.

So messed up for no good reason whatsoever.

I feel South Africans in general should be able to seek refuge just like any other foreigner and not because Trump simply wants to make his South African racist billionaire financier happy. If they have a valid reason to seek refugee status in the USA, no harm in trying. Am I missing something here?

Yes. He wants to give blanket refugee status to white South Africans while kicking out people of color for seeking out refugee status individually.

Whites welcome
Dark people go home

GodisanAtheist · Mar 24, 2025

Ugh.

If someone is being persecuted in their home country, REGARDLESS OF THE COLOR OF THEIR SKIN, they should be allowed to seek refuge in the US.

That said, both the claim that white south Africans are persecuted as well as the act of deporting people back to their shit hole countries because they're the wrong color, are both highly questionable decisions.

VashHT · Mar 24, 2025

HomerJS said:
Yes. He wants to give blanket refugee status to white South Africans while kicking out people of color for seeking out refugee status individually.

Whites welcome
Dark people go home

Yup, righties always claim asylum is bullshit for people from Mexico or Central/South America, but apparently white south africans not even seeking it should be given refugee status.

HomerJS · Thursday at 1:53 PM

Trump pushing his narrative of oppressed whites in order to justify allowing white refugees. This claim is complete bullshit. Meanwhile Trump just kicks out and blocks people of color

South Africa president says persecution of whites a 'false narrative' as Musk repeats genocide claim

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa says the claim that white people are being persecuted in his country is a “completely false narrative.”

apnews.com

fskimospy · Thursday at 1:58 PM

My favorite part is Trump has spent the last few months lying about how his deportation shit is about anti-Semitism and now it turns out one of the South Africans he's trying to import is a raging anti-Semite.

uallas5 · Thursday at 2:05 PM

There were over 6400 murders in SA in the last quarter of 2024, of those there was 1 (ONE) farmer murdered. SA doesn't break down victims by race but since the vast majority of farm owners are white, it's probable but not guaranteed the farmer killed was white. In all of 2024 there were 44 farm murder victims, 4 of which were farm owners.

So, 4 of the people who were killed out of over 25,000 murders in 2024 were farm (and probably white) owners. Doesn't exactly scream genocide to me.

HomerJS · Thursday at 2:08 PM

White Afrikkaners are some of the most privileged people there. Here is the law that Trump lies about as an excuse to promote his racist policies. White people there are running away from equality not genocide.

EXPLAINER: What South Africa’s Expropriation Act does and doesn’t allow

The South African government’s passing of the 2024 Expropriation Act was received with mixed reactions, and criticism from global figures.

africacheck.org

K1052 · Thursday at 2:20 PM

Should we be importing people who are super mad about apartheid ending and who would very much like to reestablish it as the policy of the United States? No. In fact so much no that I would prefer the next D administration to ship them back.

fskimospy · Thursday at 2:25 PM

K1052 said:
Should we be importing people who are super mad about apartheid ending and who would very much like to reestablish it as the policy of the United States? No. In fact so much no that I would prefer the next D administration to ship them back.

I like how for years they told themselves lies about Democrats trying to import favorable voters and are now doing exactly that.

brycejones · Thursday at 2:38 PM

fskimospy said:
I like how for years they told themselves lies about Democrats trying to import favorable voters and are now doing exactly that.

I would be shocked if Trump didn’t expedite every step of them becoming citizens.

Every accusation is a confession

pauldun170 · Thursday at 2:45 PM

HomerJS said:
Trump deporting people of color but wants to give whites from South Africa refugee status for express entry into the US

Should this be allowed in light of Trump’s crackdown on all other people coming into the country and his mass deportations on people of color?

67,000 white South Africans express interest in Trump's plan to give them refugee status

The U.S. Embassy in South Africa says it has received a list of more than 67,000 people interested in refugee status in the U.S. under President Donald Trump’s plan to relocate members of a white minority group he claims are victims of racial discrimination by their Black-led government.

apnews.com

Did anyone reveal the actual statistics supporting the argument that white south afrikaners qualify for refugee status and that these 49 people fit that model?

Not just tweets.
Like hard actual data from intelligence agencies and humanitarian orgs?

So far all ive seen is
the Episcopal Church’s migration service exit the grant program with the fed saying this is holy bs

GodisanAtheist · Thursday at 3:02 PM

fskimospy said:
I like how for years they told themselves lies about Democrats trying to import favorable voters and are now doing exactly that.

-Thats the whole point of projection and whataboutism.

If you accuse the other guy first you can do the same thing guilt free later while pointing to what you accused the first guy of doing as justification.

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