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dalton99a

(88,679 posts)
Sat May 10, 2025, 08:34 AM May 10

The Trump administration is chartering a plane to bring the first white South Africans to the U.S. as refugees

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/trump-administration-charter-plane-first-white-south-africans-refugees-rcna205971

The Trump administration is chartering a plane to bring the first white South Africans to the U.S. as refugees
President Donald Trump signed an executive order in February granting an exception for Afrikaners after suspending the U.S. refugee admissions program.
May 9, 2025, 7:18 PM CDT
By Abigail Williams and Gabe Gutierrez

A group of white South Africans will be arriving in Washington, D.C., on Monday by way of a State Department-chartered plane to be resettled in the U.S. as refugees, a source familiar with their arrival told NBC News.

Their resettlement comes even though President Donald Trump suspended the State Department’s refugee admissions program through an executive order on the first day of his second term.

The group’s scheduled arrival as the first white South Africans to enter the U.S. as refugees was first reported by The New York Times on Friday.

On Friday, White House deputy chief of staff and homeland security adviser Stephen Miller defended the resettling of the Afrikaners even as refugees from other countries were barred from the U.S.

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surfered

(6,987 posts)
3. In other breaking news....
Sat May 10, 2025, 08:45 AM
May 10

The administration announced another exception to the refugee program allowing the offspring of the Nazis who fled to Argentina after the fall of the Third Reich to get preferred immigration admission to the US.

“These people have been persecuted and discriminated agsinst for to long,” Stephen Miller said.

werdna

(1,043 posts)
4. If you can't breed 'em -
Sat May 10, 2025, 09:30 AM
May 10

- import 'em. Novel way to ensure white supremacy in the U S of A. Don't think there's enough of 'em in SOUTH Africa though. Maybe offer forced emigration as a bargaining chip to European tarriffed nations as well!

2naSalit

(96,954 posts)
8. I hope they are greeted with...
Sat May 10, 2025, 10:07 AM
May 10

A 'welcoming committee' and never find comfort here, of any kind.

milestogo

(20,665 posts)
10. Just what we need.
Sat May 10, 2025, 12:25 PM
May 10

More racist, toxic, entitled white males. They are going to be in for a big surprise.

Drum

(10,318 posts)
12. Gross...and you just know that T**mp will go to the airport to meet them,
Sat May 10, 2025, 12:57 PM
May 10

as opposed th the dignified transfer of the remains of military dead.

Ping Tung

(2,456 posts)
13. : "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.....
Sat May 10, 2025, 01:10 PM
May 10
: "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

White South Africans? Refugees?

Real refugees are being sent to lovely resorts in El Salvador and Honduras.

Takket

(22,980 posts)
17. Will be interesting to see what shape they are in
Sat May 10, 2025, 03:46 PM
May 10

Since these are supposedly persecuted refugees, I expect them to be emaciated, dirty, wearing tattered rags….

Right?

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