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BlueWaveNeverEnd

(11,816 posts)
Tue Oct 21, 2025, 11:10 PM Tuesday

Trump refugee plan seeks 7,000 Afrikaners -- and virtually no one else

If the administration succeeds, almost all people admitted to the U.S. as refugees — as many as 7,000 from a maximum potential pool of 7,500 — could be Afrikaners, a group not traditionally eligible for the program but one that President Donald Trump says has been tyrannized by South Africa’s Black majority. The remainder may be chosen because of their ability to speak English or their views on “free speech,” people familiar with the matter said, upending a system that for decades had taken in people fleeing conflict and persecution from all over the world regardless of race or language.

Trump refugee plan seeks 7,000 Afrikaners — and virtually no one else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/10/21/trump-refugees-afrikaners-south-africa/

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Trump refugee plan seeks 7,000 Afrikaners -- and virtually no one else (Original Post) BlueWaveNeverEnd Tuesday OP
You mean Trump isn't also recruiting German AfD members? DBoon Tuesday #1
Link to full article if you want to add to the original post ... cliffside Wednesday #2
New ICE recruits RazorbackExpat Wednesday #3
The Afrikaners have a better shot at turning the U.S. into an apartheid nation no_hypocrisy Wednesday #4
But Trump & Co. are NOT fucking racists. B.See Wednesday #5

DBoon

(24,403 posts)
1. You mean Trump isn't also recruiting German AfD members?
Tue Oct 21, 2025, 11:35 PM
Tuesday

The ones that Vance said were terribly oppressed and censored by German anti-Nazi laws?

no_hypocrisy

(53,552 posts)
4. The Afrikaners have a better shot at turning the U.S. into an apartheid nation
Wed Oct 22, 2025, 07:55 AM
Wednesday

than their home country.

Of COURSE, they want to come here.

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