The Trump administration had no qualms about revealing its true face during its years in power: one marked by deep contempt for Latino, African, and Muslim migrants, while rolling out the red carpet for white refugees. The latest evidence of this openly racist policy came with the announcement that the United States would begin accepting Afrikaners — white South Africans — as refugees, claiming they are “victims of racial discrimination.”
Refugees? Discriminated? The cynicism is grotesque. This is the same administration that locked Latino children in cages, separated families at the border, and built a wall as a symbol of exclusion and hate — now pretending to be a defender of human rights… but only when the victims are white.
Stephen Miller, the ideological architect behind many of Trump’s harshest immigration policies, was clear: “What is happening in South Africa is racial persecution.” Yet when thousands of Central Americans flee violence, hunger, and corruption — often exacerbated by decades of U.S. intervention — there is no compassion. No asylum. No refuge. Only detention, deportation, and disdain.
This new program, which begins with about two dozen Afrikaners and is expected to be part of a “much larger relocation effort,” comes even as the same administration has suspended most refugee resettlement programs for the rest of the world. That’s no coincidence. It’s ideology. It’s racial supremacy.
And all of it under the pretext that South Africa has passed legislation that, under certain conditions, allows for land expropriation without compensation — a policy meant to address the historical injustices of apartheid, a violent white supremacist regime that directly benefited Afrikaners. Now, the White House reframes that effort as “racism against whites.”
This double standard is not just morally repugnant — it’s dangerously consistent with the kind of country Trump tried to shape during his presidency: a nation closed to the poor, the brown, and the Muslim, but open to those who look like him and his political base. An immigration policy not designed to protect the vulnerable, but to preserve a vision of racial and cultural purity that reeks of past regimes.
Meanwhile, thousands of children remain scarred by the trauma of being separated from their parents. Thousands of asylum claims were ignored, blocked, or manipulated. Thousands of lives treated as disposable.
Welcoming white refugees while criminalizing Latino ones is not just a contradiction. It is a deliberate act of institutional racism. And it is a historic disgrace.
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