Trump refugee plan seeks 7,000 Afrikaners — and virtually no one else

The Washington Post ^ | 10/21/2025 1:16 p.m. EDT | Adam Taylor and Teo Armus

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The administration’s rush to process thousands of White South Africans coincides with plans for overall admissions set as low as 7,500.

The Trump administration’s plan to overhaul the U.S. refugee resettlement process, including a drastic reduction in overall annual admissions, coincides with a concerted effort to prepare thousands of White South Africans to relocate to the United States through the system, according to documents reviewed by The Washington Post and people familiar with the matter.

If the administration succeeds, almost all people admitted to the U.S. as refugees — as many as 7,000 from a maximum potential pool of 7,500 — could be Afrikaners, a group not traditionally eligible for the program but one that President Donald Trump says has been tyrannized by South Africa’s Black majority. The remainder may be chosen because of their ability to speak English or their views on “free speech,” people familiar with the matter said, upending a system that for decades had taken in people fleeing conflict and persecution from all over the world regardless of race or language.

The State Department has set a goal of processing 2,000 Afrikaners for resettlement by the end of October and an additional 4,000 by the end of November, according to two people familiar with the matter, speaking like some others on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the administration’s objectives.

Shortly after entering office, Trump issued an executive order temporarily halting the admission of most refugees, including those already vetted by the U.S. government, pending a review. Trump made an exception for Afrikaners who he has said face racial discrimination, a characterization rejected as unmoored from reality by South African officials and some Afrikaners themselves.

The initiative, begun in May, has experienced a slow start with...

[E. Pluribus Unum]

TRANSLATION: "We only want refugees who are going to vote Democrat!"

[Jim W N]

Uh, yeah, from what I can tell, it’s a rescue mission for the genocide that’s going on in South Africa apparently.

Again, God bless Trump, and condemnations to the Left and their lying media who basically hate people and hate America.

[MinorityRepublican]

They’ll probably do best in a state where they can do some farming. Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota.

[SmokingJoe]

“TRANSLATION: “We only want refugees who are going to vote Democrat!” ?

How so?
Afrikaners who are being terrorized and murdered by the blacks in South Africa are going to vote for even worse black Democrats in America?

[KarlInOhio]

I did a statistical analysis of the wealth of white South Africans who came to the US. I only had time for one sample, so I hope I can accurately extrapolate from it.

$500 billion per person times 7000 people = $3.5 quadrillion expected total net worth.

[Zhang Fei]

Something may have been lost in translation. What about the non-Afrikaans speaking whites?

[vpintheak]

Sounds fine to me. They’ll be thankful to be here and will be productive citizens. Meanwhile, the left want’s more uneducated muslims from the turd world with no skills, no benefit to the nation, no desire to integrate.

[MplsSteve]

“What about the non-Afrikaans speaking whites?”

Good point. There is (IIRC) a sizable group of South African whites who identify more as British in heritage rather than Afrikaans.

But I’m not sure what percentage of the total white population regards itself as British vs Afrikaans.

[chud]

I guess the Afrikaners felt that the USA is a better option than Orania...

[marktwain]

The headline makes it sound as if this is a problem.

Afrikaners have been discriminated against for decades.

[Greg123456]

A better way would be to carve out an “Afrikaner homeland” from about 10% of South Africa.

[zeestephen]

We will be lucky if 50% of white South Africans vote Republican.

Except for racial issues, white South Africans vote like white northern Europeans - center Left.

[albie]

Really? They vote like Jews?

[Chickensoup]

They are not permitted to leave the country with much is what I understand

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

What happens if you take Elon Musk out of that formula. :-)

[CarolinaReaganFan]

sounds ok
welcome to america

[Hot Tabasco]

TRANSLATION: "We only want refugees who are going to vote Democrat!"

How did you come to that stupid conclusion?

[Flaming Conservative]

The Africcaners are being terrorized and killed. They’re having their land stolen in the process. I have no problem with them being brought here. Horrible to see everything they’ve built over the generations be destroyed, but that’s what Marxism does.

[JZelle]

Kewl, they will work and assimilate.

[Disambiguator]

I think he was speaking from the lib’s perspective, not Trump’s.