The Trump administration suspended the refugee program on his first day in office. No more refugees! And he’s sending many refugees home. Today, for instance, Trump removed the temporary Protected Status for Afghan refugees, many of whom are here because they helped the U.S. military during the war. They will be killed.. He’s going to ship them back.
But never say that he’s a racist just because the one exception he’s allowing is for white South Africans who he says are the victims of genocide which is literally insane. (He heard this from that fascist nutcase Elon Musk.)That would be some kind of DEI and we know what that means.
A member of the state department said today that they accepted the Afrikaners because they are more easily assimilated and don’t present a security risk. I’m not kidding.
He gave them all American citizenship. I feel like screaming. But what’s the point?
Here’s an institution that’s standing up to this racist madness:
In a striking move that ends a nearly four-decades-old relationship between the federal government and the Episcopal Church, the denomination announced on Monday (May 12) that it is terminating its partnership with the government to resettle refugees, citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa who have been classified as refugees by President Donald Trump’s administration.
In a letter sent to members of the church, the Most Rev. Sean W. Rowe — the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church — said that two weeks ago the government “informed Episcopal Migration Ministries that under the terms of our federal grant, we are expected to resettle white Afrikaners from South Africa whom the U.S. government has classified as refugees.”
The request, Rowe said, crossed a moral line for the Episcopal Church, which is part of the global Anglican Communion that boasts among its leaders the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a celebrated and vocal opponent of apartheid in South Africa.
The announcement came just as flights with Afrikaners were scheduled to arrive at Dulles International Airport outside of Washington, D.C., the first batch of entries after Trump declared via a February executive order that the U.S. would take in “Afrikaners in South Africa who are victims of unjust racial discrimination.” The South African government has stridently denied allegations of systemic racial animus, as has a coalition of white religious leaders in the region that includes many Anglicans.
“The stated reasons for (Trump’s actions) are claims of victimisation, violence and hateful rhetoric against white people in South Africa along with legislation providing for the expropriation of land without compensation,” read the letter from white South African religious leaders, which included among its four authors an Anglican priest. “As white South Africans in active leadership within the Christian community, representing diverse political and theological perspectives, we unanimously reject these claims.”
Good for them.
The suspension of refugee programs has left refugee groups scrambling, having to lay off people and otherwise reduce or end their relief programs. A couple of the groups have sued and in one case received an order from the court to restart the program. As is happening throughout the country, the government just isn’t complying.