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.
Grass is always greener. They expected their hate and bigotry to be validated by MAGAts only to find out MAGAts hate immigrants regardless of whether or not the migrant looks like them and shares their values. The conservative idea that refugees get a “free ride” on their tax dollar and are “stealing jobs from real Americans” has been so ingrained by decades of those narratives to vilify legitimate refugees that xenophobes aren’t going to flip overnight. Bigots are gonna bigot, plus the South Africans aren’t getting any love from the section of society that would normally welcome refugees because we know it’s bullshit.