‘Mission South Africa’: How Trump Is Offering White Afrikaners Refugee Status
The United States has banned most refugees, including 20,000 people who were already ready to travel to the United States before President Trump took office. But Mr. Trump is making one exception.
Almost immediately after taking office, President Trump began shutting down refugee resettlement programs, slashing billions of dollars in funding and making it all but impossible for people from scores of countries to seek haven in the United States. With one exception.
The Trump administration has thrown open the doors to white Afrikaners from South Africa, establishing a program called “Mission South Africa” to help them come to the United States as refugees, according to documents obtained by The New York Times. Under Phase One of the program, the United States has deployed multiple teams to convert commercial office space in Pretoria, the capital of South Africa, into ad hoc refugee centers, according to the documents. The teams are studying more than 8,200 requests expressing interest in resettling to the United States and have already identified 100 Afrikaners who could be approved for refugee status. The government officials have been directed to focus particularly on screening white Afrikaner farmers.
The administration has also provided security escorts to officials conducting the interviews of potential refugees.
| by Anonymous | reply 35 | May 10, 2025 4:00 AM
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I am not sure how MAGATS will react to importing African Americans.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | April 3, 2025 9:33 AM
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The Whites of South Africa (a mere 7% of the total population) lead lives of such protected privilege that they're not going to emigrate to Trump-Musk's dystopian shithole, where they wouldn't be ruling the roost like they do now.
It's a racist fantasy that South African's Afrikaners are in so much danger from the "blecks" that they need to come here to save themselves.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | April 3, 2025 10:06 AM
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R2, the impression I had mostly aligns with what you wrote but what are their long term prospects? Do they walk around feeling like the sword of Damocles is over them or feeling like masters of the universe? Do they imagine their grandchildren growing up in South Africa?
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | April 3, 2025 11:08 AM
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They live off the fat of private land, of which whites own over 70%.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | April 3, 2025 11:40 AM
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What would they need protection from?
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | April 3, 2025 2:47 PM
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I think most of the ones that actually wanted to leave post Apartheid have long since already left for AUS/UK/NZ. If Jacob Zuma and his song about machine gunning farmers becoming president last decade and the general state of the country didn't make the rest leave I assume they're pretty much happy where they are.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | April 3, 2025 2:52 PM
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I know a couple of Afrikaner gay farmers from South Africa, one who used to be a lawyer and his much younger partner, who owned a huge ranch there. Yes, the crime was a serious problem but it affected Black farmers as much, if not even more, than the Afrikaners, since they couldn't afford armed security. The crime is a result of huge disparity in wealth in South Africa. The said friends sold their farm, bought an even bigger farm in Botswana, a vacation house in Namibia, and are always off somewhere, travelling to places like Seychelles.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | April 3, 2025 2:55 PM
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Musk's MAGA ideology:
Make
America's
Goal
Apartheid
As if we don't have enough of our own, homegrown racist extremists ...
SMH
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | April 6, 2025 9:53 PM
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Are farmers really being routinely murdered?
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | April 7, 2025 6:55 PM
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Trump Officials Seek to Bring First White Afrikaner Refugees to U.S. Next Week - New York Times
The rapid relocation of the Afrikaners, who President Trump says have been racially persecuted in South Africa, stands in stark contrast to the virtual shutdown of all other refugee admissions.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | May 9, 2025 6:07 PM
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Trump is gross. DataLounge would probably sponsor Ruben Lambrechts to come over from South (West) Africa, and then only for a short analysis of his pecs.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | May 9, 2025 6:21 PM
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German South West Africa.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | May 9, 2025 6:24 PM
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In my experience, white South Africans are absolute cunts. Awful people. Arrogant, nasty assholes.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | May 9, 2025 7:03 PM
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Whites are 7% of the population, this is a cherry-picked strategy to please an audience of one.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | May 9, 2025 7:36 PM
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[quote] DataLounge would probably sponsor Ruben Lambrechts
Is Ruben white skinned?
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | May 9, 2025 7:43 PM
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Musk and Trump dream of establishing an Orania in this country. In fact, an Orania in every state.
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | May 9, 2025 9:00 PM
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Where are they going to build Sun City?
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | May 9, 2025 11:34 PM
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How delightful! Afrikaners are the loveliest people and will ingrate beautifully in the USA!
| by Anonymous | reply 22 | May 10, 2025 1:38 AM
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What this country really really needs now... are more fucking Nazis. Fuck them and their dickhead accents, and fuck every single person in this administration responsible for this.
These people are reprehensible.
| by Anonymous | reply 23 | May 10, 2025 1:45 AM
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Gender affirming care for Eileen.
| by Anonymous | reply 24 | May 10, 2025 1:48 AM
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[quote] Whites only, of course
Is Ruben Lambrechts literally white skinned though?
| by Anonymous | reply 26 | May 10, 2025 1:55 AM
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[quote]DataLounge would probably sponsor Ruben Lambrechts to come over from South (West) Africa
Newsflash: It's been called Namibia since 1990, when it gained independence from South Africa. They are separate countries.
| by Anonymous | reply 27 | May 10, 2025 2:05 AM
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The U.S. welcomes political and race discrimination refugees. It's economic "refugees", who try to take advantage of America's generosity in order to make money, that a majority of Americans abhor.
| by Anonymous | reply 28 | May 10, 2025 2:11 AM
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They’re fucking weird people
| by Anonymous | reply 30 | May 10, 2025 2:36 AM
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[quote]They’re fucking weird people
That's the Dutch in them.
| by Anonymous | reply 31 | May 10, 2025 2:40 AM
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It's Musk's influence. Trump is dumb and will just go along with him.
| by Anonymous | reply 33 | May 10, 2025 2:45 AM
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[quote] The U.S. welcomes political and race discrimination refugees. It's economic "refugees", who try to take advantage of America's generosity in order to make money, that a majority of Americans abhor.
Cheryl is a cunt.
| by Anonymous | reply 35 | May 10, 2025 4:00 AM
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