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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/trump-administration-charter-plane-first-white-south-africans-refugees-rcna205971The 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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Walleye
(40,690 posts)Scrivener7
(55,819 posts)allegorical oracle
(5,006 posts)surfered
(6,987 posts)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)- 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!
maxrandb
(16,567 posts)milestogo
(20,665 posts)Or IN the Hudson.
travelingthrulife
(2,404 posts)Did they buy our country?
spanone
(139,142 posts)God Damn these traitors.
2naSalit
(96,954 posts)A 'welcoming committee' and never find comfort here, of any kind.
Mr.Bee
(734 posts)More Not-Sees from South Africa!
milestogo
(20,665 posts)More racist, toxic, entitled white males. They are going to be in for a big surprise.
Drum
(10,318 posts)as opposed th the dignified transfer of the remains of military dead.
Ping Tung
(2,456 posts)White South Africans? Refugees?
Real refugees are being sent to lovely resorts in El Salvador and Honduras.
ShadesOfBlue
(72 posts)white immigrants are the only desired immigrants.
AntiFascist
(13,299 posts)EllieBC
(3,452 posts)Or perhaps it depends on who was being doxxed.
AntiFascist
(13,299 posts)Inquiring minds want to know.
Takket
(22,980 posts)Since these are supposedly persecuted refugees, I expect them to be emaciated, dirty, wearing tattered rags….
Right?