Anonymous wrote:So these migrants will be getting free iPhones and penthouses in NYC that all the MAGA are outraged about? They will be stealing jobs and seats in schools and housing that should go to Americans?

MAGA must be outraged. Why would Trump who is anti-immigrant spend our taxpayer $$ on them? What do you say MAGA? We’re all outraged, yes?

Elon's friends....they will fit right in with this 1938 administration.

They’re here! The first white “refugees” from South Africa landed at Dulles airport this morning.

The first plane carrying white South Africans who received refugee status from the Trump administration landed at Washington Dulles International Airport on Monday morning, according to a flight tracking website.

The US government paid for their flight and expedited their refugee status processing time down to only three months (usually takes 17-24 months).

“The group that arrived Monday on a U.S.-funded Omni Air International charter flight say they have been discriminated against, denied job opportunities and have been subject to violence because of their race.”

“Mr. Trump said on Monday that the United States was extending citizenship to these individuals, who he said were victims of a genocide.”

Anonymous wrote:Apart from this South African crap...

Trump has over 100 foreign H2B visa workers at Mar-A-Lago and his golf resorts working as waitstaff, housekeeping and cooks because he rejected American citizens who applied and claimed he couldn't find American workers.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kenbensinger/mar-a-lago-rejected-dozens-of-americans-in-favor-of-foreign

I'm guessing the South African "refugees" are going to work at Trump's winery in Virginia?

Anonymous wrote:What a transparently awful look. How is RW media going to spin this?

They're coming because they are being victimized by Black people. This is RW media's wet dream.

What a transparently awful look. How is RW media going to spin this?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are flying immigrants in by the plane full now?

Yes! But only White ones!

+1 thank you!

Anonymous wrote:We are flying immigrants in by the plane full now?

Yes! But only White ones!

So these migrants will be getting free iPhones and penthouses in NYC that all the MAGA are outraged about? They will be stealing jobs and seats in schools and housing that should go to Americans?

MAGA must be outraged. Why would Trump who is anti-immigrant spend our taxpayer $$ on them? What do you say MAGA? We’re all outraged, yes?

We are flying immigrants in by the plane full now?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
I just can't anymore...they don't even try to hide their racism toward anyone of color and embrace of anyone White.

Breaking: Friday 5/9
The Afrikaners are expected to arrive on a State Department-chartered plane Monday, with federal and Virginia officials preparing to receive them in a ceremonial news conference, according to documents and emails obtained by The Washington Post, as well as three government officials familiar with the preparations.

Months after the Trump administration ground U.S. refugee admissions to a halt, the program meant for people fleeing war or political persecution has restarted — but only for one group: White South Africans.

The arriving families, who are part of a group that President Donald Trump has said face racial discrimination, will then be resettled outside Virginia in at least seven states, according to those familiar with the plans, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to share details of the preparations.

Last year, no South Africans of any race, ethnicity or linguistic group were vetted by the United Nations as meeting its criteria to be resettled as refugees, according to the organization’s data. State Department officials would not say why the 60 Afrikaners set to arrive Monday were granted refugee status.

All other refugees besides the Afrikaners — the descendants of primarily Dutch settlers in South Africa — have essentially been kept from arriving since Trump’s first week in office. Government funding has been slashed to a network of nonprofit groups that help them acclimate, forcing them to lay off or furlough hundreds of case managers who assist arrivals in finding jobs, housing and other government aid.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/20...evere&location=alert

Are these folks South Africa's best? Or are we getting the worst South Africa has to offer? Are they their country's highly educated with amazing skills to offer the US, or will they help pick the crops migrants from south of this border are no longer available to handle?

Who knows why and how they were chosen. The State Dept. wouldn't respond to requests for information from the WP. But what we do know from the WP article is that they are being treated very differently from all other refugees.

*They're being flown over in a jet chartered by the State Dept. and will land in Dulles, later transferring to domestic flights to their final destination.
*They will have a welcoming ceremony at Dulles.
*While it can take years for refugees to go through the screening and approval process, for these folks it took several months only.
*They don't have to go through a cultural orientation program required of all other refugees before their arrival.
*They're getting “P-1” refugee status, "which typically begins for large groups with a referral and initial screening by officials of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). The UNHCR has not been involved in screening the Afrikaners and was not approached to participate."
*Refugee processing is typically done in a third country — separate from the applicants’ homeland and the United States — because refugees by definition are not considered safe in their country of origin and the federal government typically works with the International Organization for Migration, another U.N. agency, to process refugees overseas and assist them with booking flights to the United States. The IOM is not involved in coordinating the Afrikaners’ travel and the processing did not occur in a third country.
*Instead, State Department officials have chartered planes to bring these people over, an unusual move. "Such a move typically only occurs during emergencies when a large number of people are all being resettled at once, such as during the Taliban’s return to power in Afghanistan in 2021."
*The Afrikaner families will be received by local resettlement organizations, according to a DoS handout, despite the fact the the Trump administration has frozen DoS funds to those organizations. They are supposed to get medical care, job training, and up to three months of rent.
But apparently there is some money for just these folks. "Officials at the State Department and the Office of Refugee Resettlement, a branch of HHS, have instead turned to two still-existing pools of money to support the Afrikaners upon their arrival: one meant to cover gaps in funding for particularly vulnerable refugees, and another to help state governments administer job training and other programs for refugees."
*And, despite the fact that none of the refugees are set to be resettled in Virginia, the state will be spending some of the money that is normally intended for job-training programs to welcome the Afrikaner families.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/05/09/afrikaner-refugees-south-africa-white-trump/

I used to be married to a South African. The stereotype among white (English) South Africans is that the Afrikaners are lazy, whiny, uneducated, and entitled. It’s going be interesting to see how this plays out.

Anonymous wrote:
I just can't anymore...they don't even try to hide their racism toward anyone of color and embrace of anyone White.

Breaking: Friday 5/9
The Afrikaners are expected to arrive on a State Department-chartered plane Monday, with federal and Virginia officials preparing to receive them in a ceremonial news conference, according to documents and emails obtained by The Washington Post, as well as three government officials familiar with the preparations.

Months after the Trump administration ground U.S. refugee admissions to a halt, the program meant for people fleeing war or political persecution has restarted — but only for one group: White South Africans.

The arriving families, who are part of a group that President Donald Trump has said face racial discrimination, will then be resettled outside Virginia in at least seven states, according to those familiar with the plans, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to share details of the preparations.

Last year, no South Africans of any race, ethnicity or linguistic group were vetted by the United Nations as meeting its criteria to be resettled as refugees, according to the organization’s data. State Department officials would not say why the 60 Afrikaners set to arrive Monday were granted refugee status.

All other refugees besides the Afrikaners — the descendants of primarily Dutch settlers in South Africa — have essentially been kept from arriving since Trump’s first week in office. Government funding has been slashed to a network of nonprofit groups that help them acclimate, forcing them to lay off or furlough hundreds of case managers who assist arrivals in finding jobs, housing and other government aid.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/20...evere&location=alert

Are these folks South Africa's best? Or are we getting the worst South Africa has to offer? Are they their country's highly educated with amazing skills to offer the US, or will they help pick the crops migrants from south of this border are no longer available to handle?

I just can't anymore...they don't even try to hide their racism toward anyone of color and embrace of anyone White.

Breaking: Friday 5/9
The Afrikaners are expected to arrive on a State Department-chartered plane Monday, with federal and Virginia officials preparing to receive them in a ceremonial news conference, according to documents and emails obtained by The Washington Post, as well as three government officials familiar with the preparations.

Months after the Trump administration ground U.S. refugee admissions to a halt, the program meant for people fleeing war or political persecution has restarted — but only for one group: White South Africans.

The arriving families, who are part of a group that President Donald Trump has said face racial discrimination, will then be resettled outside Virginia in at least seven states, according to those familiar with the plans, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to share details of the preparations.

Last year, no South Africans of any race, ethnicity or linguistic group were vetted by the United Nations as meeting its criteria to be resettled as refugees, according to the organization’s data. State Department officials would not say why the 60 Afrikaners set to arrive Monday were granted refugee status.

All other refugees besides the Afrikaners — the descendants of primarily Dutch settlers in South Africa — have essentially been kept from arriving since Trump’s first week in office. Government funding has been slashed to a network of nonprofit groups that help them acclimate, forcing them to lay off or furlough hundreds of case managers who assist arrivals in finding jobs, housing and other government aid.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/20...evere&location=alert

Anonymous wrote:Apart from this South African crap...

Trump has over 100 foreign H2B visa workers at Mar-A-Lago and his golf resorts working as waitstaff, housekeeping and cooks because he rejected American citizens who applied and claimed he couldn't find American workers.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kenbensinger/mar-a-lago-rejected-dozens-of-americans-in-favor-of-foreign

Why can't the J6ers do these jobs?

Apart from this South African crap...

Trump has over 100 foreign H2B visa workers at Mar-A-Lago and his golf resorts working as waitstaff, housekeeping and cooks because he rejected American citizens who applied and claimed he couldn't find American workers.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kenbensinger/mar-a-lago-rejected-dozens-of-americans-in-favor-of-foreign