Posted on 08/15/2025 1:28:52 PM PDT by Red Badger
(DCNF)—The Trump administration is reportedly considering limiting refugee admissions to roughly 40,000 people for fiscal year 2026, and a significant portion of them could be white South Africans, Reuters reported Friday.
Two U.S. officials familiar with the discussions, along with an internal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) email, indicate that up to 30,000 of the spots could go to Afrikaners, according to Reuters. Since taking office, President Donald Trump has drawn attention to the violence and discrimination faced by the minority group of predominantly Dutch descent in South Africa.
“Outlets like Reuters have long covered the persecution of Afrikaners, who have endured unspeakable horrors, including rape, murder, and other violent crimes while their government has abandoned them,” White House press secretary Anna Kelly told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “President Trump has a humanitarian heart, which is why he has welcomed these courageous individuals to the United States. Refugee admission caps will be determined next month, and any numbers discussed at this point are pure speculation.”
In May, Trump signed an executive order promoting the resettlement of Afrikaner refugees escaping race-based discrimination and violence in their country, whose harrowing testimonies have been documented by the Daily Caller.
Trump’s order accuses the South African government of showing “disregard” for the rights of its citizens through “countless government policies designed to dismantle equal opportunity in employment, education, and business, and hateful rhetoric and government actions fueling disproportionate violence against racially disfavored landowners.”
A top refugee program official at the HHS reportedly informed state-level refugee coordinators that a 40,000-person cap was expected for fiscal year 2026, Reuters reported. The potential limit is a sharp decrease from the 100,000 refugees admitted under former President Joe Biden in fiscal year 2024.
During a May White House meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, Trump warned of a potential “genocide” against them and played a video montage highlighting discrimination and violent attacks against Afrikaners.
The first group of 59 Afrikaner refugees arrived in May, with 34 more arriving by early August, according to Reuters. Some refugee advocacy groups, including the Episcopal Migration Services, decided to end their partnership with the federal government after Trump began promoting Afrikaner resettlement.
We have some beautiful farmland in North Central Florida that used to be owned by Bill Gates. If he still owns it, use the public domain laws and give these refugee farmers this land. We would love to have the Afrikaners and their families settled there!
Would love some good folks out here in the Northern California Gold Country. Plenty of growing lands in the flatlands, but also lots of properties with acreage for smaller farms. Plenty of Sun, mild winters—below the snow and above the fog—what’s not to love....oh and its America, not like the significant portions of California—
Bring ALL of them here!
Plenty of farmland just sitting untended here in the US.
They are REAL refugees unlike 90% of what we got under Bidumb.
“I think the Boer farmers would be compatible with the Amish and Mennonites.”
Dutch Reformed Church is common among White South African Boers, so places in the USA that had a lot of Dutch immigration (Michigan, MidWest, NY, NJ, and SE Pnnsylvania around where the Amish are settled) might be socially compatible.
If the refugees are in fact farmers, getting them into farming in the USA would be a great idea, because as a group, they have proven to be World-Class productive farmers, who have excelled everywhere they have gone in their diaspora.
Good
Quick!
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Not to me
White Deep South whites have far more in common
Huge black populations
Corrupt black cities
Bedrock 90% conservatism amongst whites
Most Lutherans I know are woke
Afrikaaners are not remotely Amish or just Dutch
French and German too
However they may be tired of black crap so the whitelandia north may be preferable admittedly
They’re welcome in Las Vegas. There seems to be a significant cluster of them already here, and I have enjoyed meeting them. I can’t imagine being pushed out of your country by a genocidal threat, but they sure are facing it. When the wheels fall off over there, we need to be ready to help.
Bring them here!!!!
Big demand for younger farmers in Iowa. And quite a few farmers and small towns with Dutch roots. Problem is the buy-in is $3 million minimum and cropland $8000-16000 per cropland acre. But deals can be made with older farmers.
I have been told that the US needs migrants to pick crops. These can grow them and then pick them.
Yep, put them in AOC’s district!
GOOD.
We have a new SA family who just joined our church. They are super excited about volunteering/getting involved in church. I haven’t broached the topic of politics, but don’t really think it’s needed. Everything about them says conservative, imo.
Put all of them in Minneapolis.
only after we send the somalis home.
we don’t want to subject them to the same abuse they are fleeing from.
They are REAL refugees unlike 99.999% of what we got under Bidumb.
fixed it for ya.
Yup.
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