Trump to Bring White South Africans as Refugees to U.S. South Africans will get help with housing, groceries, and other needs.
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By Naomi LaChance
White South Africans supporting President Trump and South African and U.S. tech billionaire Elon Musk on Feb. 15, 2025MARCO LONGARI/AFP via Getty Images
Amid a widespread crackdown on immigration and refugee programs, the Trump administration is slated to bring white South Africans to the U.S. as refugees on Monday, multiple news outlets reported. They will now have a pathway to American citizenship.
The move is the first in a “much larger-scale relocation effort,” White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller told reporters on Friday. The Trump administration suspended the refugee resettlement program on his first day in office for his second term and froze funding for resettlement agencies. In Uganda, as one example, these cuts mean that food rations for a million people have been cut off.
“What’s happening in South Africa fits the textbook definition of why the refugee program was created,” Miller said. “This is race-based persecution. The refugee program is not intended as a solution for global poverty — and historically, it has been used that way.”
The Lever first reported the news that white South Africans could be admitted to the U.S. as refugees.
The U.S. will give about 50 white South Africans help with housing, groceries, and other needs, according to a document reviewed by the Associated Press. The Trump administration could admit as many as 1,000 Afrikaners this year. They will be receiving emergency support from the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement, which is a division of the Department of Health and Human Services.
In February, the Trump administration issued an executive order that the U.S. would “promote the resettlement of Afrikaner refugees escaping government-sponsored race-based discrimination.” The White House also released an executive order saying the U.S. would only admit refugees who “can fully and appropriately assimilate.”
Elon Musk, the head of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, was born in South Africa. He has said in a post on X that a political group is promoting a “white genocide” in the country, a claim that has been widely denied.
“Far-right-wing groups in South Africa actively go to America and promulgate this idea of a white genocide because, of course, when you have a high murder rate, white people do get murdered,” Gareth Newham, head of the justice and violence prevention program at the Institute of Security Studies in South Africa told NBC News in February. White people are likely targeted because they are relatively wealthy, he said.
At the root of the Trump administration’s claims is South Africa’s recent expropriation law that allows the government to seize land under certain circumstances. Thirty years after the end of Apartheid, about seven percent of South Africans are white — mainly descendants of Dutch settlers — but they own almost three quarters of the land. So far, no land has been seized.
The government of South Africa released a statement Friday saying that the idea that Afrikaners are discriminated against is “unfounded.”
“It is most regrettable that it appears that the resettlement of South Africans to the United States under the guise of being ‘refugees’ is entirely politically motivated and designed to question South Africa’s constitutional democracy; a country which has in fact suffered true persecution under Apartheid rule and has worked tirelessly to prevent such levels of discrimination from ever occurring again,” said Chrispin Phiri, spokesperson for the Ministry of International Relations and Cooperation.
It can often take years to get approval to come to the U.S. as a refugee, but the Afrikaners only had to wait a few months. The status of other refugees is in limbo. Last Monday, a judge ordered the Trump administration to admit 12,000 refugees who had previously been blocked from entering the country.
“We are profoundly disturbed that the administration has slammed the door in the face of thousands of other refugees approved by [the Department of Homeland Security] months ago, notwithstanding courts ordering the White House to let many of them in,” Mark Hetfield, the president of HIAS, a Jewish humanitarian aid society, said in a statement. “That’s just not right.”
Trump to Bring White South Africans as Refugees to U.S. While Cutting Everyone Else Out
The administration claims South Africa’s white minority is being persecuted based on their race, which the nation's government deniesBy Naomi LaChance
White South Africans supporting President Trump and South African and U.S. tech billionaire Elon Musk on Feb. 15, 2025MARCO LONGARI/AFP via Getty Images
Amid a widespread crackdown on immigration and refugee programs, the Trump administration is slated to bring white South Africans to the U.S. as refugees on Monday, multiple news outlets reported. They will now have a pathway to American citizenship.
The move is the first in a “much larger-scale relocation effort,” White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller told reporters on Friday. The Trump administration suspended the refugee resettlement program on his first day in office for his second term and froze funding for resettlement agencies. In Uganda, as one example, these cuts mean that food rations for a million people have been cut off.
“What’s happening in South Africa fits the textbook definition of why the refugee program was created,” Miller said. “This is race-based persecution. The refugee program is not intended as a solution for global poverty — and historically, it has been used that way.”
The Lever first reported the news that white South Africans could be admitted to the U.S. as refugees.
The U.S. will give about 50 white South Africans help with housing, groceries, and other needs, according to a document reviewed by the Associated Press. The Trump administration could admit as many as 1,000 Afrikaners this year. They will be receiving emergency support from the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement, which is a division of the Department of Health and Human Services.
In February, the Trump administration issued an executive order that the U.S. would “promote the resettlement of Afrikaner refugees escaping government-sponsored race-based discrimination.” The White House also released an executive order saying the U.S. would only admit refugees who “can fully and appropriately assimilate.”
Elon Musk, the head of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, was born in South Africa. He has said in a post on X that a political group is promoting a “white genocide” in the country, a claim that has been widely denied.
“Far-right-wing groups in South Africa actively go to America and promulgate this idea of a white genocide because, of course, when you have a high murder rate, white people do get murdered,” Gareth Newham, head of the justice and violence prevention program at the Institute of Security Studies in South Africa told NBC News in February. White people are likely targeted because they are relatively wealthy, he said.
At the root of the Trump administration’s claims is South Africa’s recent expropriation law that allows the government to seize land under certain circumstances. Thirty years after the end of Apartheid, about seven percent of South Africans are white — mainly descendants of Dutch settlers — but they own almost three quarters of the land. So far, no land has been seized.
The government of South Africa released a statement Friday saying that the idea that Afrikaners are discriminated against is “unfounded.”
“It is most regrettable that it appears that the resettlement of South Africans to the United States under the guise of being ‘refugees’ is entirely politically motivated and designed to question South Africa’s constitutional democracy; a country which has in fact suffered true persecution under Apartheid rule and has worked tirelessly to prevent such levels of discrimination from ever occurring again,” said Chrispin Phiri, spokesperson for the Ministry of International Relations and Cooperation.
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/grizzly-bear-attack-survival-1235333910/It can often take years to get approval to come to the U.S. as a refugee, but the Afrikaners only had to wait a few months. The status of other refugees is in limbo. Last Monday, a judge ordered the Trump administration to admit 12,000 refugees who had previously been blocked from entering the country.
“We are profoundly disturbed that the administration has slammed the door in the face of thousands of other refugees approved by [the Department of Homeland Security] months ago, notwithstanding courts ordering the White House to let many of them in,” Mark Hetfield, the president of HIAS, a Jewish humanitarian aid society, said in a statement. “That’s just not right.”
Nope! Not a peep! Their pimp 'Riq is going to convince them that this is a good thing, and then he's going to raise money to make a bootleg documentary about it.
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Increasing the white population by any means necessary.
You beat me to it
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Dealing with 50 Boers is better than having Kamala as President. Besides, immigrants are only here for a better life. 
What does P-1 refugee status give refugees?
P-1 refugee status, as defined by the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program, refers to Priority-1 cases, which are individuals identified by the UNHCR, a U.S. embassy, or certain NGOs as being in need of resettlement due to specific vulnerabilities or persecution risks. It grants refugees the opportunity to apply for resettlement in the United States, but the benefits and process are tied to approval and relocation. Here's what P-1 refugee status provides upon successful resettlement:
- Legal Admission to the U.S.: P-1 refugees are granted lawful entry into the United States as refugees, allowing them to live and work legally.
- Path to Permanent Residency: After one year in the U.S., refugees can apply for a green card (lawful permanent resident status), which is a step toward potential citizenship after five years.
- Work Authorization: Refugees receive immediate authorization to work upon arrival, typically through an Employment Authorization Document (EAD).
- Access to Public Benefits: P-1 refugees are eligible for federal and state assistance programs, including:
- Refugee Cash Assistance (RCA): Short-term financial support (up to 12 months).
- Refugee Medical Assistance (RMA): Temporary health coverage (up to 12 months) for those ineligible for Medicaid.
- Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP): Food assistance.
- Medicaid or other health programs, depending on state and eligibility.
- Resettlement Support: Through the U.S. Refugee Resettlement Program, P-1 refugees receive help from resettlement agencies, including:
- Housing assistance (initial support for rent or furnishings).
- Case management for integration (e.g., job placement, language classes).
- Cultural orientation and community support.
- Family Reunification: P-1 refugees can petition to bring immediate family members (spouse, unmarried children under 21) to the U.S. through follow-to-join processes, though this requires additional applications.
- Protection from Persecution: P-1 status ensures refugees are protected from being returned to their home country where they face persecution, in line with international refugee law.
- Eligibility: P-1 status is for individuals with a well-founded fear of persecution based on race, religion, nationality, political opinion, or membership in a particular social group. Referrals often prioritize those with urgent needs (e.g., survivors of torture, medical emergencies).
- Process: After referral, applicants undergo rigorous vetting, including interviews, background checks, and medical screenings, which can take 1-2 years.
- Limitations: Benefits like RCA and RMA are time-limited, and refugees must transition to self-sufficiency. Access to benefits varies by state.
I guess that’s where them tangibles went…glad folks held they vote back otherwise these fine Africans would’ve had to do without
That's Tariq's handler.
This thread better be 50+ pages.
We need to make sure when one of these cacs rape or kill someone that we go Fox News on that ass. They eating the dogs, cats & rats and make sure we flood social media with every thing wrong they do. Hang any crime on this administration and white people. We need to fight fire with nukes. The cacudacity!
I'm pretty sure Trump and Elon are gonna take buy up all the land from MAGA farmers who lost farm land and give to the South African Boers
I expect nothing less from a white supremacist Christofascist regime.
Episcopal Church refuses to resettle white Afrikaners, citing moral opposition
May 12, 20252:45 PM ETBy
Jack Jenkins
White South Africans demonstrate in support of President Trump in front of the U.S. Embassy in Pretoria, South Africa, on Feb. 15.
Jerome Delay/AP
In a striking move that ends a nearly four-decades-old relationship between the federal government and the Episcopal Church, the denomination announced on Monday that it is terminating its partnership with the government to resettle refugees, citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa who have been classified as refugees by President Trump's administration.
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White South African Afrikaner refugees arrive in U.S. on a government-chartered plane
In a letter sent to members of the church, the Most Rev. Sean W. Rowe — the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church — said that two weeks ago, the government "informed Episcopal Migration Ministries that under the terms of our federal grant, we are expected to resettle white Afrikaners from South Africa whom the U.S. government has classified as refugees."The request, Rowe said, crossed a moral line for the Episcopal Church, which is part of the global Anglican Communion, which boasts among its leaders the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a celebrated and vocal opponent of apartheid in South Africa.
"In light of our church's steadfast commitment to racial justice and reconciliation and our historic ties with the Anglican Church of Southern Africa, we are not able to take this step," Rowe wrote. "Accordingly, we have determined that, by the end of the federal fiscal year, we will conclude our refugee resettlement grant agreements with the U.S. federal government."
Rowe stressed that while Episcopal Migration Ministries will seek to "wind down all federally funded services by the end of the federal fiscal year in September," the denomination will continue to support immigrants and refugees in other ways, such as offering aid to refugees who have already been resettled.
The announcement came just as flights with Afrikaners were scheduled to arrive at Washington Dulles International Airport, outside Washington, D.C. — the first batch of entries after Trump declared via a February executive order that the U.S. would take in "Afrikaners in South Africa who are victims of unjust racial discrimination." The South African government has stridently denied allegations of systemic racial animus, as has a coalition of white religious leaders in the region that includes many Anglicans.
"The stated reasons for [Trump's actions] are claims of victimisation, violence and hateful rhetoric against white people in South Africa along with legislation providing for the expropriation of land without compensation," read the letter from white South African religious leaders, which included among its four authors an Anglican priest. "As white South Africans in active leadership within the Christian community, representing diverse political and theological perspectives, we unanimously reject these claims."
In addition to ties with Tutu, the Episcopal Church has a long history of advocating against apartheid in South Africa. It first began altering its financial holdings in the region in 1966, and by the mid-1980s, the church voted to divest from companies doing business in South Africa.
Rowe noted his announcement comes as the Trump administration has otherwise all but frozen the refugee program, with Afrikaners among the few — and possibly only — people granted entry as refugees since January. Shortly after he was sworn in, Trump signed an executive order that essentially halted the refugee program and stopped payments to organizations that assist with refugee resettlement — including, according to one group, payments for work already performed.
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Trump freeze on resettlement funding leaves new refugees scrambling to adjust in U.S.
That change has left refugees — including Christians fleeing religious persecution — without a clear path forward and has forced the 10 refugee resettlement groups, seven of which are faith based, to lay off scores of workers while still trying to support refugees who had recently arrived. Four of the faith groups have since filed two separate lawsuits, one of which recently resulted in a ruling that should have restarted the program. However, refugee groups have accused the government of "delaying compliance" with the court order.A representative for Church World Service, which is among the groups currently suing the administration, said the organization "has agreed to support one family through remote services," but pointed to an additional statement from last week that voiced ongoing frustration with the government's actions.
"We are concerned that the U.S. Government has chosen to fast-track the admission of Afrikaners, while actively fighting court orders to provide life-saving resettlement to other refugee populations who are in desperate need of resettlement," Rick Santos, head of Church World Service, said in a statement last week.
"By resettling this population, the Government is demonstrating that it still has the capacity to quickly screen, process, and depart refugees to the United States. It's time for the Administration to honor our nation's commitment to the thousands of refugee families it abandoned with its cruel and illegal executive order."
Matthew Soerens, vice president of advocacy and policy at World Relief, an evangelical Christian group that helps resettle refugees, said in an email that his group anticipates "serving a small number" of the arrivals who qualify for Office of Refugee Resettlement-funded services. But he said the situation is "complicated by the reality that the government is not bringing them to the US through the traditional State Department initial resettlement process, where World Relief has historically been one of the ten private agencies that implement this public-private partnership, because that process remains suspended."
He added: "Our primary response to this situation is to continue to urge the administration to resume that initial resettlement process for a broad range of individuals who have fled persecution on account of their faith, political opinion, race or other reasons outlined under US law — and to highlight the support for doing so from the evangelical Christians who are World Relief's core base of support, including some very conservative evangelicals who see refugee resettlement as a vital tool to protect those denied religious freedom abroad."
I got a feeling one of these nutjob MAGA mofos who have been extremely affected by Trump/Musk shenanigans….will execute their “2nd Amendment” right when they see these folks living and eating good on their tax dollars.
We will wait and see…