Please explain how this affluent-looking group of white South Africans meets the definition of a refugee. “A refugee, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), is a person "forced to flee their own country and seek safety in another country. They are unable to return to their own country because of feared persecution as a result of who they are, what they believe in or say, or because of armed conflict, violence or serious public disorder." |
These people had more than a century to treat the indigenous people of their adopted land better. They chose not to.
It's no surprise they were intensely disliked by the majority when the government flipped. They are not refugees; they are failed colonists. |
DP. That's pretty much it right there. And as you can see by the rhetoric on this thread, they have a point... |
The Bantu are not the indigenous people of South Africa in case you didn't realize that. |
Wouldn’t it be something if they were resettled in Oklahoma adjacent to an Indian reservation. |
Where is your evidence pointing to the fact that they’re “persecuted?” |
You mean that they are indigenous to overlapping areas of Mozambique and Zimbabwe? Right. And the Afrikaners are indigenous to....the Netherlands. |
Just over 1348 days left for Trump to turn this country into a steaming heap of rubble. |
These people look lazy and well fed. Not your typical refugees. I’m lost I thought Trump despised this type of white person. My money says he’s spitting mad right about now. He thought he was getting some classy gentlemen farmers. These people look like Appalachian Hillbillies. |
You mean the country whose borders were established by white colonialists? So? |
DP and I’m a Democrat. I agree they aren’t real refugees, but this is a curious thing for Democrats to harp on, given that there’s not much political will on the Democratic side to curb fake asylum applications for clearly ineligible Central Americans (wanting a better life or more economic opportunity or even fleeing gang violence is not the same as being persecuted by your government) coming over the border. Neither they nor these South African citizens are “real” refugees but I’d argue that at least the South Africans aren’t systemically cheating our immigration system. |
True. The white SAs have Trump to do that for them. |
So my question is does Trump assume that because they’re white they speak English as their native language? Has he heard of Afrikaans? |
Um no. It’s because he canceled all the brown ones saying we can’t have immigrants, but wait, white immigrants are ok. If he’d left other immigration in place and added these guys, that would have been fine. Instead he does the most racist thing possible. One of his goons was quoted today saying the Afrikaners would “assimilate better than” other immigrants. Gee I wonder why? It’s not the language. Or the religion. It must be … hmm … oh yeah because they’re white and Trump thinks America is a fundamentally white country. And if it isn’t, he’ll work to make it so. |
Because we totally need more poor, uneducated whites in the country. |