All posts tagged "Refugees"

The internet was in uproar on Thursday after a new Reuters report disclosed that the U.S. has planned to admit 4,500 applications from white South Africans as refugees.

The Trump administration has pushed to limit refugee applications from other countries. But an unreported State Department document from Jan. 27 revealed a new target for specifically white South Africans.

People sounded off on the Trump administration's move, questioning the decision. ...

A new report revealed Thursday that the U.S. has planned to admit 4,500 applications from white South Africans as refugees, according to Reuters.

The Trump administration has limited its refugee applications from other countries. This new target, according to an unreported U.S. State Department document from Jan. 27, showed a push to increase refugees from South Africa, Reuters reported.

"Trump has said the U.S. would only admit 7,500 total refugees from around the world in fiscal year 2026, while a much higher cap of 40,000 to 60,000 was discussed internally last year," according to Reuters. "Only 2,000 white South Africans had entered the U.S. as refugees as of January 31 under a program launched in May 2025, although the pace has picked up in recent months."...

MAGA influencer Laura Loomer melted down Friday over claims that a Republican lawmaker worked to help house Afghan refugees at a Texas military base after the Taliban took over the country in 2021.

Loomer was criticizing Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) and his work with Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) to house 10,000 Afghan refugees in August 2021 at Fort Bliss in a post on X Friday, a week after an Afghan national allegedly shot two National Guard troops, killing one and leaving another severely injured.

In her long post, Loomer attempted to connect crime rates in El Paso and called the refugees "unvetted Afghan imports, brought in under the banner of humanitarianism and 'counterterrorism cooperation', have contributed to this crime surge," she wrote....

WASHINGTON – Veteran members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) say the Trump administration has moved from offensive to straight racist with its decision to welcome white South Africans as refugees.

Amid continuing controversy over President Donald Trump’s crackdown on immigration by people of color, one senior Black House Democrat lamented “the most blatant show of white supremacy in America in the history of the world.”

“It is a slap in the face to every African American and every person in this country who believes in the rule of law,” added Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-FL), ahead of Congress’ Memorial Day recess. ...

President Donald Trump didn't hide his disgust when asked Friday why he was allowing white South African farmers into the United States but "closed off that door" to many other refugees.

A U.S.-funded charter flight brought close to 60 Afrikaner families to the the U.S. state of Idaho earlier this week under a humanitarian program designed for people fleeing war or persecution.

Afrikaners are white South Africans of Dutch descent....

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence program, known as Grok, placed the blame Friday on an "unauthorized modification" to its system prompt that caused it to spew information about a "white South African genocide" no matter what it was asked.

In light of Musk's support for white Afrikaners who were granted asylum in the United States by President Donald Trump over an imagined "white genocide," Grok users believed Musk must have tinkered with the program to put the focus on something near and dear to his heart.

Some on X and Bluesky speculated that Musk must have "ham-handedly" manipulated Grok's algorithm "only for it to overreact and begin mentioning [South Africa] in every response."...