'50,000 Afrikaners seeking sanctuary in US'
Source: The Times (UK)
Almost 50,000 Afrikaners have made inquiries about gaining asylum in America under President Trumps refugee programme, the US State Department has said.
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After taking office Trump indefinitely suspended Americas refugee resettlement programme, under which about 60,000 people entered the US in 2023, but made an exception for white South Africans. The president and his allies have repeated conspiracy theories there has been a white genocide of Afrikaners in South Africa.
They have also claimed white farmers were having their land seized under a new government policy, but no land has been expropriated and white South Africans who make up 7.3 per cent of the population still own 73 per cent of commercial farmland.
John Steenhuisen, South Africas white agricultural minister, and others have questioned whether real white farmers are going to the US or merely those who have been unsuccessful.
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Read more: https://www.thetimes.com/world/africa/article/50000-afrikaners-seeking-sanctuary-in-us-3j0bt8qnm

EYESORE 9001
(28,597 posts)in an attempted coup in South Africa? Thats my wild-azz guess.
Marcuse
(8,547 posts)JustAnotherGen
(35,760 posts)People in America. They'll test them on us.
slightlv
(6,141 posts)What better army than a band of mercenaries beholding to trump to make it so? After all, they have real world experience on how to finish off the down-trodden masses... especially when they're lazy ass Americans who can't discern truth from fiction.
Trueblue1968
(18,646 posts)Hekate
(98,602 posts)Lonestarblue
(12,818 posts)Just what we need50,000 more white supremacists who support apartheid against minorities.
SunSeeker
(56,173 posts)Mr.Bee
(1,037 posts)Paladin
(31,094 posts)The last thing this country of ours needs is another batch of apartheid advocates.
Clouds Passing
(5,395 posts)Javaman
(64,288 posts)the orange asshole deported hard working, grossly overlooked people in favor of his whites only policy.
well, farmers are screaming for cheap labor, well, here they are. put them to work.
if we are to follow the repuke credo, these immigrants need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and earn their keep.
Dave Bowman
(5,499 posts)DavidDvorkin
(20,262 posts)who is the leader of the liberal opposition party, the Democratic Alliance, has an Afrikaans surname. He's also from Durban, an urban center.
Interesting to me, anyway.
He's an example of how things have changed in the white population of SA since I left there almost 70 years ago.
travelingthrulife
(2,906 posts)electric_blue68
(22,475 posts)I'm sure drumphf, and (ptooie) Miller are gleeful.
Shouldn't even be one!



I think Miller may be worse than drumphf in his racism, etc; certainly somewhat smarter.
BurnDoubt
(844 posts)now voting for authoritarian candidates.
So... NO.....
Jilly_in_VA
(12,476 posts)NO WAY! NO HOW! NO TIME!
Martin68
(26,191 posts)ruet
(10,140 posts)after the current dust-up with Elon Musk, Trump doesn't put the kibosh on this and send ICE out for a visit.