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dalton99a

(94,677 posts)
Sat May 10, 2025, 08:34 AM May 2025

The Trump administration is chartering a plane to bring the first white South Africans to the U.S. as refugees

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/trump-administration-charter-plane-first-white-south-africans-refugees-rcna205971

The Trump administration is chartering a plane to bring the first white South Africans to the U.S. as refugees
President Donald Trump signed an executive order in February granting an exception for Afrikaners after suspending the U.S. refugee admissions program.
May 9, 2025, 7:18 PM CDT
By Abigail Williams and Gabe Gutierrez

A group of white South Africans will be arriving in Washington, D.C., on Monday by way of a State Department-chartered plane to be resettled in the U.S. as refugees, a source familiar with their arrival told NBC News.

Their resettlement comes even though President Donald Trump suspended the State Department’s refugee admissions program through an executive order on the first day of his second term.

The group’s scheduled arrival as the first white South Africans to enter the U.S. as refugees was first reported by The New York Times on Friday.

On Friday, White House deputy chief of staff and homeland security adviser Stephen Miller defended the resettling of the Afrikaners even as refugees from other countries were barred from the U.S.

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The Trump administration is chartering a plane to bring the first white South Africans to the U.S. as refugees (Original Post) dalton99a May 2025 OP
Hey Miller, there will always be Black people in this country. They are equal, give it up. Walleye May 2025 #1
WTF. What are they supposed to be refugees from? Are they all Musk's relatives? Scrivener7 May 2025 #2
Maybe more of his kids?? nt allegorical oracle May 2025 #19
In other breaking news.... surfered May 2025 #3
If you can't breed 'em - werdna May 2025 #4
Hope they're scheduled to land in Newark. NT maxrandb May 2025 #5
Maybe they'll land on the Hudson. milestogo May 2025 #11
So more horrible bigots like Elon and Thiel are coming. travelingthrulife May 2025 #6
Musk is cashing in on his 'investment' in trmp. spanone May 2025 #7
I hope they are greeted with... 2naSalit May 2025 #8
That's All We Need Mr.Bee May 2025 #9
Just what we need. milestogo May 2025 #10
Gross...and you just know that T**mp will go to the airport to meet them, Drum May 2025 #12
: "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free..... Ping Tung May 2025 #13
To Trump and the Gang.... ShadesOfBlue May 2025 #14
Dox them n/t AntiFascist May 2025 #15
That was already said was a no go here. EllieBC May 2025 #16
Who were the "agents" arresting Rumeysa Ozturk? AntiFascist May 2025 #18
Will be interesting to see what shape they are in Takket May 2025 #17
Possible they'll go to Musk's new TX space city. They'll like it in TX. nt allegorical oracle May 2025 #20

Walleye

(45,075 posts)
1. Hey Miller, there will always be Black people in this country. They are equal, give it up.
Sat May 10, 2025, 08:36 AM
May 2025

surfered

(13,757 posts)
3. In other breaking news....
Sat May 10, 2025, 08:45 AM
May 2025

The administration announced another exception to the refugee program allowing the offspring of the Nazis who fled to Argentina after the fall of the Third Reich to get preferred immigration admission to the US.

“These people have been persecuted and discriminated agsinst for to long,” Stephen Miller said.

werdna

(1,241 posts)
4. If you can't breed 'em -
Sat May 10, 2025, 09:30 AM
May 2025

- import 'em. Novel way to ensure white supremacy in the U S of A. Don't think there's enough of 'em in SOUTH Africa though. Maybe offer forced emigration as a bargaining chip to European tarriffed nations as well!

2naSalit

(103,277 posts)
8. I hope they are greeted with...
Sat May 10, 2025, 10:07 AM
May 2025

A 'welcoming committee' and never find comfort here, of any kind.

milestogo

(23,138 posts)
10. Just what we need.
Sat May 10, 2025, 12:25 PM
May 2025

More racist, toxic, entitled white males. They are going to be in for a big surprise.

Drum

(10,717 posts)
12. Gross...and you just know that T**mp will go to the airport to meet them,
Sat May 10, 2025, 12:57 PM
May 2025

as opposed th the dignified transfer of the remains of military dead.

Ping Tung

(4,370 posts)
13. : "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.....
Sat May 10, 2025, 01:10 PM
May 2025
: "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

White South Africans? Refugees?

Real refugees are being sent to lovely resorts in El Salvador and Honduras.

Takket

(23,745 posts)
17. Will be interesting to see what shape they are in
Sat May 10, 2025, 03:46 PM
May 2025

Since these are supposedly persecuted refugees, I expect them to be emaciated, dirty, wearing tattered rags….

Right?

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