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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(132,351 posts)
Mon May 12, 2025, 11:59 AM May 2025

49 white South Africans leave for US after Trump offered them refugee status

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — A group of 49 white South Africans departed their homeland Sunday for the United States on a private charter plane having been offered refugee status by the Trump administration under a new program announced in February.

The group, which included families and small children, was due to arrive at Dulles International Airport outside Washington on Monday morning local time, according to Collen Msibi, a spokesperson for South Africa’s transport ministry.

They are the first Afrikaners — a white minority group in South Africa — to be relocated after U.S. President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Feb. 7 accusing South Africa’s Black-led government of racial discrimination against them and announcing a program to offer them relocation to America.

The South African government said it is “completely false” that Afrikaners are being persecuted.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/49-white-south-africans-leave-233802851.html

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Doodley

(11,573 posts)
1. So white supremacists fly in as those who seek asylum are flown out to a hell hole for life without due process.
Mon May 12, 2025, 12:05 PM
May 2025

FadedMullet

(641 posts)
7. "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore
Mon May 12, 2025, 12:16 PM
May 2025

.......with just this one caveat, the gotta be white.

 

brush

(61,033 posts)
8. Spread this white supremacist crap far and wide as special elections occur and the mid-terms approach.
Mon May 12, 2025, 12:22 PM
May 2025

See where it gets these trump/maga/rethugs.

greatauntoftriplets

(178,590 posts)
12. Does anyone know where they plan to resettle these "refugees"?
Mon May 12, 2025, 01:15 PM
May 2025

I suppose there are states that will be happy to welcome more racists.

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