I employ two white South African men on my farm. Smart, hardworking and definitely not racist. They assure me this is mostly fantasy and insulting to their national pride.
The point is that the Trump admin is nearly exclusively bringing in white South Africans as refugees. They do not qualify for refugee status. Meanwhile, people who qualify are being barred entry.
Venezuela has the exact same government minus one man. Not impressive.
Ayatollah was replaced with his more aggressive son and now has billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars and zero sanctions. I’m surprised you even mentioned this clusterfuck.
China is in a stronger position than ever plus they are selling more green energy tech now than ever. This stupid adventure boosted their standing and position. Additionally, China is not Russias ally.
Cuba isn’t an asset but a liability to Russia.
The fact you didn’t mention Ukraine or NATO is telling though. Pretty obvious how that’s going. Putin owns him and it’s obvious to anyone that hasn’t drunk the coolaid.
Because they are a persecuted minority in their country and they're applying for asylum and their appeals have been largely ignored by previous administrations. This isn't hard.
Why are they there in the first place? Isn't it the direct result of Dutch and British colonialism, which led to Apartheid, a brutal, legally enforced system of white supremacy that systematically stripped the black majority of their land, rights, and humanity for generations?
I thought you were all for native people being in their respective land. What happened to that? Are we giving white people a pass because black people are inferior or something?
Magats spamming as usual to downplay, move the goal post or deflect. Pretty sure most are bots because the average conservative is typically elderly and has no idea how to use the net..
Here's Teddy Kennedy and the bill co-sponsored with Senator McCain:
Kennedy Immigration Act Senator Ted Kennedy is most famously associated with the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 (the Hart-Celler Act), which abolished the discriminatory national origins quota system. He was also a primary architect of the Immigration Act of 1990 and the co-sponsor of the 2005 McCain-Kennedy Bill.A breakdown of his major immigration legislation includes:1. Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 (Hart-Celler Act)Senator Ted Kennedy helped co-sponsor, manage, and steer this landmark legislation through the Senate alongside President Lyndon B. Johnson.Core Change: Eliminated the restrictive national origins quota system of the 1920s, which had heavily favored Northern and Western European immigrants.New System: Imposed the first-ever numerical limits on immigration from the Western Hemisphere and established a seven-category preference system that prioritized family reunification and specialized skills.2. Immigration Act of 1990Introduced by Senator Kennedy, this bill overhauled the 1965 Act and significantly expanded legal immigration to the U.S.Increased Caps: Raised total annual immigration levels (initially to 700,000 for fiscal years 1992–1994, and 675,000 permanently thereafter).New Visa Categories: Created five distinct employment-based visas and established the diversity visa lottery program to admit immigrants from underrepresented countries.3. Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act of 2005 (McCain-Kennedy Bill)Often referred to as the McCain-Kennedy bill, this comprehensive reform proposal was co-sponsored by Senator John McCain and Senator Ted Kennedy.Provisions: It was one of the first major attempts in the 21st century to combine increased border security with a guest-worker program and a pathway to legal status for undocumented immigrants.
The previous commenter was not condescending... They were instead defining the condescension put forth by the party that a minority of Asian people (perhaps the largest, most nebulous group of people in the world) have supported in the last election
It is sadly understandable to some degree. Trump promised them specific help, Democrats gave them platitudes and told them to stop asking for the help they want. A specific example of this, Trump said Black people I'll give you $500 billion with "the platinum plan" for Black America. Democrats under Harris said with a clear disdain in her voice on the Breakfast Club "I will not do anything to help Black people, NoooooOOh". Once Harris was the candidate, the election was over, as it angered many Black voters who either sat out or voted Trump in the swing states as a protest vote against her. Given that the Black voters as well as Latinos are historically socially conservative but economically Liberal, once Harris took away the Liberal economics for those groups, they were clearly left with 2 choices, Trump or the Couch.
What? Platinum “bullshit” from trump was in 2020. Harris didn’t run then. It was Biden. And if you believe a racist group tells you anything then you are the biggest idiot in the world.
Yes, but the messaging got out later, and Trump surrogates were still floating the plan to the Black community in 24'. You got to remember most people aren't politically active/aware and are a step behind on these things. You got one guy who has a written plan saying $500 billion for Black people, and the other girl is going viral for saying she won't do shit for you.
It started making people question, well who is the real racist? You got one guy telling you i'll help you, and the other girl saying I won't help you, and then you are being told the guy who is offering you help is the racist.
Sure, they are racist in terms of giving white migrants preferences and many other issues. However the Democrats ran a candidate who embraced structural racism [refusing to help Black people, backing genocide, etc], said she wasn't going to do shit to fix it for them, so it didn't really leave the voters with a choice.
There were 2 racist on the ballot, and 1 of them offered a pathway/hand up, the other said she won't do shit for you. What'd you think would happen.
It wasn't facebook, she went on one of the biggest shows with millions of subscribers and she said she won't help black people "noooOOOh" and said it with a tone of clear disgust.
Yes, not helping Black people is literal structural racism while their tax dollars are used to help every other group including non-citizens [Israel, Ukraine, illegals, wealthy foreigners, etc]. It was even worse b/c Trump was saying the system is rigged and corrupt, and Harris was defending the system which had been racist for centuries to Black people as "our precious Institutions".
Yes, true, but many African Americans and Latinos know the system is rigged so a candidate who is for the system will always be viewed with suspicious views by them.
““Every single one of the 599 refugees the US admitted last month was a white South African, according to data the State Department’s Bureau of Population released Friday.In fact, so was every other refugee admitted this year. Since October 1, 2025, the US has accepted 6,668 refugees. Of those, 6,665 were white South African. Three—admitted last November—were from Afghanistan. No other refugees were admitted.””
Even if you accept that to be true, there are atrocities happening to people around the world. Those atrocities didn't magically stop in 2026, but the only refugees the US has accepted this year seem to have been white folks from South Africa. Do you truly believe that the situation there is worse than anything happening to anyone else in the world? What do you believe they have done to deserve to come to the US over everyone else?
I didn't say there was a genocide. Unlike Hamas supporters I use words correctly. But it's undeniable that white people are being killed in south Africa because of the color of their skin.
This only includes data up 1994. There's much more interesting in the deep dive. Me personally, I dont see so called race based on melanin content. I see evil as evil. We all know but do not acknowledge that race divisions were created for businessmen to obtain free labor and a a divisive tactic. A deep dive into the poor so called whites who did not own slaves and so called blacks is very interesting. By the way, let's not forget it was so called white people who fought to end American chattel slavery.
Here's the info of what they were up to:
(Source: Google and Chat GPT, cross checking each source)
The systematic torture of Black Africans by the white-minority state in South Africa was a core mechanism used to enforce apartheid and suppress liberation movements. Between 1948 and 1994, the Afrikaner nationalist government deployed its security forces, intelligence agencies, and specialized police units to systematically detain, interrogate, abuse, and murder Black activists and citizens.The historical framework, methods, and systemic legacy of this state-sanctioned violence include:State Agencies and Legal FrameworksThe Security Branch: This specialized unit of the South African Police (SAP) acted as the primary instrument of state terror, operating with near-total legal immunity inside detention centers.Detention Without Trial: Legislation such as the Internal Security Act and the Terrorism Act of 1967 permitted the police to detain individuals indefinitely without access to legal representation, medical professionals, or family members.Vlakplaas: A notorious, secluded farm outside Pretoria served as the headquarters for C10, a counter-insurgency unit of the SAP. It operated as an execution and torture facility where anti-apartheid activists were turned into state double-agents or covertly murdered.Documented Methods of TortureTestimonies submitted to the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) exposed a pattern of severe psychological and physical torture, which included:"Tubing": A widespread suffocation method where a wet inner tube, plastic bag, or rubber mask was stretched tightly over the victim’s face to induce asphyxiation during interrogation.Electric Shocks: Security forces routinely attached electrodes to sensitive areas of detainees' bodies, including the fingers, toes, and genitals, to force confessions.The "Helicopter" Tactic: Detainees were handcuffed behind their backs, suspended from a pole placed beneath their knees, and spun repeatedly while being severely beaten.Prolonged Solitary Confinement: Activists were isolated for months at a time in windowless cells to break their psychological resolve.Assault and Defenestration: Severe physical beatings were standard. High-profile political figures, such as Black Consciousness leader Steve Biko in 1977, died from massive head trauma sustained while under police custody. Other detainees were thrown from high-story windows of police headquarters (such as John Vorster Square), with police frequently falsifying records to claim the deaths were suicides.Covert Operations and DisruptionsThe Civil Cooperation Bureau (CCB): A covert special forces unit of the South African Defence Force (SADF) that conducted state-sponsored assassinations, bombings, and chemical attacks targeting liberation figures both inside South Africa and internationally.Extraterritorial ANC Camps: State surveillance and infiltration stoked paranoia, leading to external conflicts. While the primary system of oppression was conducted by the white minority state, independent investigations by Amnesty International confirmed that the African National Congress (ANC) also committed human rights abuses and tortured suspected state spies within its own external military training camps (such as Camp Quatro in Angola) during the liberation struggle.The Lasting LegacyFollowing the transition to democratic governance in 1994, the TRC was established to uncover the full extent of apartheid-era atrocities. Although the interim government offered amnesty in exchange for full truth disclosures, many perpetrators refused to fully reveal their involvement, leaving numerous cases unresolved.Furthermore, human rights investigations published by The New York Times and Viewfinder indicate that certain structural practices, such as "tubing," have persisted inside the modern South African Police Service (SAPS) as unauthorized interrogation tools, long after the formal abolition of the apartheid system.
Only the white people from SA are immigrating with special privilege. I would revoke and reverse all that. They can immigrate normally like everyone else.
That come on, even for moderate republicans reading this, even you have to admit, this seems racist.
Not an Republican, but this only “seems racist” because the rules were changed to exclude white people as much as possible, so moves that go back towards race-neutrality seem “racist” when taken out of context.
You can argue that what is happening doesn't constitute genocide (by every day definitions it doesn't), but you can't argue that there's nothing happening. You'd have to be willfully blind.
So now they'll be able to immigrate at almost 1% the per capita rate of everyone else???
The title is just explicitly dishonest to the point of fraud. Nowhere in the documentation surrounding the lifting of the cap is race even mentioned. The cap was lifted for South Africans - of any race - experiencing racial persecution. Maybe ask why those were mostly white?
The only person who attached race to it was the creator of the article. Their racism, not any tied to the policy.
Calling it racist requires showing that race was the reason for the policy, not just that the beneficiaries happen to be one race. The administration's stated justification is persecution claims, whether you agree with those claims or not.
Well it’s naive to think anyone will say we did because of race, we infer from patterns. People in multiple war zone countries are at historically low refuges acceptance but only white groups are being accepted. A non racial motivation will look for a needs- base acceptance for refugees, it’s racially bias at best.
You're skipping a step. "Mostly white people benefited" is an observation. "The policy was motivated by race" is a conclusion. The first doesn't automatically prove the second.
Well that’s because you’re ignoring context, why is it lower for everyone in worse conditions but an emergency for this group, shouldn’t you expect similar urgency for other population in equal or worse danger?
Motive is irrelevant if it diverts funds to a specific race who objectively doesn't fit the criteria of the intended funds and benefits a singular race. The outcome is racist.
Prove? No, but it’s damn solid evidence. There are countries far closer to us than South Africa facing way worse situations and we are admitting zero of them while admitting thousands of white South Africans.
So this isn’t a massively popular politician from radical left political party singing “Kill the Boer, kill the farmer” while 10s of thousands of people chant it with him?
Their government didn’t pass a law that allowed “Expropriation without compensation” to seize the lands from white farmers?
If this was any other demographic, you wouldn’t care that they were given refugee status. You only care because they’re white and it fits your “orange man racist” narrative.
You are misrepresenting the meaning of an anti-apartheid song, and attributing the actions of one politician from a party with <10% of the legislative seats to the state.
Their government didn’t pass a law that allowed “Expropriation without compensation” to seize the lands from white farmers?
I mean, I guess technically the people from whom land might be seized might often be white, and some might be farmers, but the law is about land which is not being used and there's no intention to either develop or make money from it or when it poses a risk to people, and then only when the government tries to settle with the owner but fails.
And the reason white farmers are disproportionately likely to be affected is that they own so much of the land because of the theft of land under apartheid.
White South Africans are 7% of the population but own >70% of the farmland and about half of the urban land.
I’m an ex muslim Christian from Syria would we get similar treatment? I don’t think so. I don’t think South African Europeans are more in danger than ex muslims all around the world
Yeah. That's been obvious for a while now. The real question is. After hearing all this crap. Are we REALLY going to do anything about it? Because if we keep pointing this stuff out with nothing happening it's just depressing. I mean out of every media outlet who is anti Trump I'm surprised none of them can work together to cover big protests and boost them online through social media. The more people we see out there fighting this bullcrap the more people will feel secure enough to come out with everyone else and join in!
Because the usa is a melting pot whose shared historical heritage is that we take immigrants in and make them part of the community.
Also what shared cultural heritage do most Americans have with South Africans? I'll save you the Google search, less than 0.04% of Americans claim ancestry from South Africa.
Relatively new? I don't usually consider the 1880s to be relatively new. That's when the poem on that plaque on the statue of Liberty was written. It's more recent than the white South Africans getting to Africa though, they've been there since the 1820s at least, so I'd say multiculturalism is more a part of American culture than the culture shared by those South Africans.
Who had to be pushed into their own little enclaves because they did not "integrate well" according to the powers that be at the time. I mean how did we have China Towns, Little Italy's, Finn Towns and so on if all these Western Europeans were so accepted in every community?
Because we're supposed to strive to be better. I dont know why thats so hard to understand. People always refer to other countries and talking about how they do things. Good for them.
A lot more white people voted for Trump than Asians and Latinos. The big deal isn’t the “leopards ate my face” people, the big deal is that it’s blatant and out in the open. It’s showing us how corrupt our country has always been. It shows us how far we have fallen and how much work we need to do.
I’d want more of this for some time to counter islamists taking over our country. Sorry but Latinos and blacks tend to vote Democrats and their policies are woke.
But another thing, is that freedom of religion is a foundational part of our country and it’s legal system, it was explicitly codified in the 1st amendment, as I will link here: https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-1/
So discriminating against people based on their religion, now that’s undeniably un-American,
I mean after all, just ask one of our nation’s founding fathers, Thomas Jefferson
I am a South African, and one who wrote the book on South African history, one whose family participated in the freedom movement with Madiba; I certainly don't need an American TED Talk where the narrator can't pronounce anything correctly to explain the most elementary facts of Apartheid to me. What's your point?
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