'50,000 Afrikaners seeking sanctuary in US'

[highplainsdem]

Source: The Times (UK)

Almost 50,000 Afrikaners have made inquiries about gaining asylum in America under President Trump’s refugee programme, the US State Department has said.

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After taking office Trump indefinitely suspended America’s refugee resettlement programme, under which about 60,000 people entered the US in 2023, but made an exception for white South Africans. The president and his allies have repeated conspiracy theories there has been a “white genocide” of Afrikaners in South Africa.

They have also claimed white farmers were having their land seized under a new government policy, but no land has been expropriated and white South Africans — who make up 7.3 per cent of the population — still own 73 per cent of commercial farmland.

John Steenhuisen, South Africa’s white agricultural minister, and others have questioned whether “real” white farmers are going to the US or merely those who have been unsuccessful.

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Read more: https://www.thetimes.com/world/africa/article/50000-afrikaners-seeking-sanctuary-in-us-3j0bt8qnm

[EYESORE 9001]

1. Mercenaries coming to RW paramilitary compounds for training

in an attempted coup in South Africa? That’s my wild-azz guess.

[Marcuse]

2. After a deployment to FBI, ICE, ATF, DEA etc.

[JustAnotherGen]

4. Against Black

People in America. They'll test them on us.

[slightlv]

5. Or to help finish the coup here in the U.S.

What better army than a band of mercenaries beholding to trump to make it so? After all, they have real world experience on how to finish off the down-trodden masses... especially when they're lazy ass Americans who can't discern truth from fiction.

[Trueblue1968]

7. No !!!!!! DO. NOT. LET. THEM. ENTER.

[Hekate]

3. Only the best people...

[Lonestarblue]

6. Republicans want more whites people here to vote for them.

Just what we need—50,000 more white supremacists who support apartheid against minorities.

[SunSeeker]

8. 'They're not sending us their best..." nt

[Mr.Bee]

9. Send Them Back

[Paladin]

10. NO. Absolutely not.

The last thing this country of ours needs is another batch of apartheid advocates.

[Clouds Passing]

11. I wonder if they're going to re-create their little Nazi villages

[Javaman]

12. put them in the fields to pick our fruit and veggies.

the orange asshole deported hard working, grossly overlooked people in favor of his whites only policy.

well, farmers are screaming for cheap labor, well, here they are. put them to work.

if we are to follow the repuke credo, these immigrants need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and earn their keep.

[Dave Bowman]

13. Totally agree.

[DavidDvorkin]

14. Interestingly, "John Steenhuisen, South Africa's white agricultural minister",

who is the leader of the liberal opposition party, the Democratic Alliance, has an Afrikaans surname. He's also from Durban, an urban center.

Interesting to me, anyway.

He's an example of how things have changed in the white population of SA since I left there almost 70 years ago.

[travelingthrulife]

15. They will be scooping up all the properties Americans lose during Trump reign of terror.

[electric_blue68]

16. We (most of us) DON'T WANT You HERE! Scum!

50,000 !!!
I'm sure drumphf, and (ptooie) Miller are gleeful.
Shouldn't even be one!



I think Miller may be worse than drumphf in his racism, etc; certainly somewhat smarter.

[BurnDoubt]

17. I was here when the government was bringing right-wing christofascists here in the eighties and nineties...

now voting for authoritarian candidates.
So... NO.....

[Jilly_in_VA]

18. NUH-UH!

NO WAY! NO HOW! NO TIME!

[Martin68]

19. So the US is now importing racists. I thought we had enough of them already.

[ruet]

20. I Wouldn't Be Surprised If,...

after the current dust-up with Elon Musk, Trump doesn't put the kibosh on this and send ICE out for a visit.