Trump Is Giving Refugee Status to White South Africans—but Many Don’t Want to Come

Wall Street Journal ^ | May 12, 2025 | Alexandra Wexler

[karpov]

Afrikaners, white South Africans long reviled as the architects of a racist state, are now being recast by Donald Trump as the victims of one.

The U.S. president has accused South Africa’s Black-majority government of plotting to seize white farms and failing to stop “violent attacks on innocent disfavored minority farmers.” His top adviser, white South Africa-born billionaire Elon Musk, has accused some of the country’s politicians of actively promoting a “white genocide.”

Trump, who has centered his presidency on a promise to evict millions of migrants from the U.S., is clearing away obstacles so that white Afrikaners who want to emigrate enjoy a smooth path to American citizenship.

On Monday, several dozen Afrikaners arrived in the U.S. on a chartered flight that landed at Dulles International Airport outside Washington, the first group granted refugee status under Trump’s executive order. The white South Africans were welcomed by Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Troy Edgar and Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau, who said the people told him of “harrowing stories of the violence they faced in South Africa.”

In response to a reporter’s question, Landau said the president paused the broader refugee program for other groups of people because it wasn’t clear they had been carefully vetted, but that the administration could make exceptions where it was determined that it was in the interest of the U.S.

Ahead of the Afrikaners’ arrival, Trump on Monday said he was expediting their entry “because they are being killed…it’s a genocide that’s taking place.”

However, relatively few South African farmers say they want to emigrate. Typically, Afrikaners are wealthier than average, and while some murders of white farmers have grabbed headlines for their shocking violence, Black South Africans often die in equally horrific circumstances and in higher numbers

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: africa; afrikaners; alexandrawexler; southafrica; southafricans

[karpov]

Full article. It does describe the violence:

"Persistent racial and economic tension has at times blistered to the surface. Black bandits killed Grobler’s white neighbor, then shot at Grobler himself as he made his way home from voting in a municipal election in 2000. Grobler’s father-in-law was killed in what locals call a farm attack, a type of violent break-in."

[VeniVidiVici]

Typically, Afrikaners are wealthier than average, and while some murders of white farmers have grabbed headlines for their shocking violence, Black South Africans often die in equally horrific circumstances and in higher numbers

As is black on black crime here in the US. But they never write about that, do they?

[Texas Fossil]

Boer @twatterbaas (Jun 25, 2024)
Newly elected member of Parliament in South Africa:
https://x.com/twatterbaas/status/1805661780577832997

“We will kill the white man’s children, we will kill their woman, we will kill anything that we find in our way..”

I bet you don’t see this on mainstream media.
@SkyeZedA

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So, does he mean what swill he screamed out? Yes.

Pattern?

Rhodesia = Zimbabwe

[digger48]

I had to look again

I thought I was reading the Washington Post

[silverleaf]

The WSJ is completely gone over to the dark side

[1Old Pro]

The WSJ is completely gone over to the dark side

Not unlike National Review. They haven't noticed that they are selling low and buying high.

[Texas Fossil]

WSJ?

Dark Side Bump!

[Carry_Okie]

As to which of the two races is more oppressive, take a visit to Crime Free Orania.

[struggle]

>Not unlike National Review. They haven’t noticed that they are selling low and buying high.

Yeah, when Kevin Williamson did that hit piece on Herman Cain oh so long ago, I finally figured out they were a loser conservative publication that wanted to perpetually keep the GOP a minority opposition. Disgusting lack of courage.

[ComputerGuy]

But many do want to come. You keep trying to downplay that.

[Flavious_Maximus]

These South African migrants will be productive members of society. They will also quickly assimilate into the American fabric.

Unlike the filthy, diseased, cradle-to-grave welfare maggots that come from other third world countries who refuse to assimilate (looking straight at you Muslim Somalis). Don’t need ANY more of those types. /spit

[MrRelevant]

Whites make up 7% of the population in SA. Blacks 80%. If the black africans turn on the white ones, which its seems is the case, , their wealth isnt going to save them is it? But if they want to stay …. Thats on them. Migrants Trump is removing are from countries where no such thing is taking place. They come here simply because they live in shitholes and do not want to wait to come to America.

[Jonty30]

It is their choice to not want to come, if they are making that choice freely. Not much you can do.

[rlmorel]

Yes it has. And the tenor of the articles speaks volumes about those who post them and voice support for them.

And if people don’t want amnesty and don’t want to come-DON’T. Nobody is twisting your arm. You either need to escape and apply for amnesty or you don’t.

And the blather about “vetting” in the face of tens of millions of unvetted illegals over the Southern border is completely asinine.

The premise of this article is solely to paint the US in a bad light.

[rlmorel]

Exactly.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Oh no they’re letting whites in. 🙄

[rlmorel]

Karpov has some other agenda, it is isn’t pro-America.

[Jonty30]

Any South Afrikaan that will not come, because he’ll lose his wealth is choosing to keep his right hand and not enter Heaven.

Sometimes you have to lose everything and begin again. Within a decade, most would recover reasonably average lifestyles.

[laplata]

FYI ping

[I want the USA back]

Moving from one continent to another is a big deal. You leave behind your friends and most of your family. Many people would rather not take the risk, and stay where they are.

The article is a fraud.