Administration official says South Africa is a ‘DEI regime par excellence’ as the White House radically overhauls refugee admission program
Donald Trump’s administration is mulling a plan that would more than double the annual limit for refugee admissions so the government can bring more white South Africans to the U.S.
The proposal follows the administration’s overhauling of the nation’s refugee admissions program to explicitly prioritize Afrikaners, The Independent previously reported.
Trump has already lowered the ceiling for annual admissions from 125,000 people to a record-low 7,500 — shutting off resettlement to thousands of already-vetted refugees who were preparing to start their life in the U.S. — and then limiting those admissions to mostly white South Africans.
What is the context for this? Why does he keep making exceptions for South Africans specifically? Is this some kind of favor to shitheads like Musk and Thiel? Or is there some other factor I’m not aware of?
I think this is the work of Stephen Miller and Elon Musk - the two white nationalists close to Trump - moreso than anything Trump is initiating or even really cares about.
In the white nationalist world, the “white genocide” narrative is their lodestar.
Just plain ol’ racism
I believe it’s because most South Africans are white
Whites make up less than 10% of SA’s population. They are specifically letting in whites do to the “white genocide” narrative the right has been pushing
That’s right, I forgot about the white genocide story. Thank you for mentioning
They’re no longer legally allowed to discriminate in South Africa, therefore white South Africans are victims. Religion played a dual role in SA, on the one hand, to rationalize apartheid, on the other, for liberation and reconciliation. The US seems to have a similar religious division between liberal and conservative sects.
@notwhoyouthink@lemmy.zip gave a pretty good answer in a comment above https://piefed.social/comment/11085277
Gotta stuff the racists in here. Its a play to get more power.
Throwing a bone to a minority within his base, and even then some South African refugees have actually left the US recently.