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Trump Slashes Refugee Cap, Favors White South Africans

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Trump Slashes Refugee Cap To Record Low, Favors White South Africans

 

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The Trump administration has announced a record-low refugee admissions cap of 7,500 for the coming year — a dramatic cut from the 125,000 allowed under President Biden — with priority given to white South Africans, primarily Afrikaners.

 

The policy, published Thursday in the Federal Register, says the allocations will go “primarily” to Afrikaner South Africans and “other victims of illegal or unjust discrimination.” No detailed justification was provided beyond vague references to “humanitarian concerns” and “the national interest.”

 

The move follows Trump’s January executive order suspending the US Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP) to “prioritise national security and public safety.” His previous administration had already set the lowest-ever ceiling in 2020 at 15,000 refugees.

 

Trump’s new policy has ignited global outrage. Human rights groups accused the White House of turning refugee protection into an ideological weapon. “This decision lowers our moral standing,” said Krish O’Mara Vignarajah, CEO of Global Refuge. Refugees International called it “a mockery of refugee protection and American values.”

 

The decision comes after months of tension between Washington and Pretoria. In February, Trump expelled South Africa’s ambassador, Ebrahim Rasool, who accused the US president of “mobilising a supremacism” after Trump offered resettlement to white South Africans.

 

At a fiery Oval Office meeting in May, Trump confronted South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa, claiming white farmers were being “killed and persecuted.” The White House even showed footage of farm-cross memorials — later revealed to be protest scenes rather than evidence of systematic killings.

 

Despite Trump’s insistence, official South African statistics show no evidence of genocide or targeted persecution of white farmers. Of the 7,000 murders recorded between October and December 2024, just 12 occurred in farm attacks — only one of the victims was a farmer.

 

The policy’s critics warn that it effectively shuts America’s doors to refugees from crisis zones such as Afghanistan, Venezuela, or Sudan, while rewarding a politically symbolic — and overwhelmingly white — group.

 

The South African government has not yet issued a formal response to the announcement.

 

Key Takeaways:

  • Trump caps refugee admissions at 7,500 — lowest in US history.

  • Priority given to white South Africans, sparking accusations of racial bias.

  • Human rights groups warn the move undermines US credibility and refugee protection.

 

Source: BBC

 
 
 

 

Well done Mr President

 

 

What a sick nation.

1 hour ago, Will B Good said:

 

 

What a sick nation.

Whitey bad, 

Wants a Whitebread nation is a hot water sandwich.

‘Afrikaner village’ to be built in Russia  Aug 12, 2023

Moscow and Tver Regions plan to accept 3,000 families from South Africa.

“We plan to establish 30 settlements in Russia for Afrikaners who want to immigrate,” said the head of the Eurasian International University (EIU) and general representative of the AIC in Russia, Konstantin Klimenko.

“These are Boers, farmers of European origin, whose ancestors settled in Africa many years ago,” Klimenko explained. “Many of them are now converting to Orthodoxy and moving to Russia, attracted by our moral and spiritual way of life, with traditional family values.”

https://www.watchoutnews.com/post/afrikaner-village-to-be-built-in-russia

 

15,000 Boers plan move to Russia from South Africa    Jul 8, 2018

Absorption considered after series of murders South African government accused of encouraging.

 

As the death toll rises monthly among South Africa's Afrikaners – often horribly slaughtered and mutilated in hate-crimes – 15,000 of them are considering mass migration to Russia.

 

Russia's humanitarian absorption of migrant refugees is being weighed after a series of murders the South African government has been accused of encouraging, and that have made farming in South Africa the most deadly occupation in the world.

 

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/248587

 

 

Climate change (not global warming©) raising temperatures in Siberia, opening massive new fertile areas to grow GMO-free soybeans and hormone-free beef for sale to China.

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