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BlueWaveNeverEnd

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Tue Oct 21, 2025, 11:10 PM Tuesday

Trump refugee plan seeks 7,000 Afrikaners -- and virtually no one else [View all]

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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