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Trump must be letting his pedophile friends into the country.


The Trump administration is chartering a plane to bring the first white
South Africans to the U. S. as refugees


President Donald Trump signed an executive order in February granting an exception for Afrikaners after suspending the U. S. refugee admissions
program.



A group of white South Africans will be arriving in Washington, D. C. , on Monday by way of a State Department-chartered plane to be resettled in the
U. S. as refugees, a source familiar with their arrival told NBC News.
Their resettlement comes even though President Donald Trump suspended the
State Departments refugee admissions program through an executive order on
the first day of his second term.

The groups scheduled arrival as the first white South Africans to enter the
U. S. as refugees was first reported by The New York Times on Friday.
Trump signed an order on Jan. 20 that said the U. S. lacks the ability to absorb large numbers of migrants, and in particular, refugees, into its communities in a manner that does not compromise the availability of
resources for Americans, that protects their safety and security, and that ensures the appropriate assimilation of refugees.

But after a public dispute with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa a
few weeks later over his signing of a land seizure law, Trump issued a
second executive order both eliminating aid for South Africa and granting
an exception for Afrikaner refugees escaping government-sponsored race-
based discrimination, including racially discriminatory property
confiscation. Trump adviser Elon Musk, who was born and raised in South
Africa, has described the country as having racist ownership laws, accusing
its government of failing to stop what he has referred to as a genocide
against white farmers.

The South African government expressed its concerns to the Trump
administration regarding the refugee status granted to its citizens in a
Friday phone call between South African Deputy Minister Alvin Botes and U.
S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau.

According to a South African readout of the call, Botes disputed the Trump administrations position that the white South Africans are refugees, adding that the allegations of discrimination are unfounded.

Under the 1951 Refugee Convention and its 1967 Protocol, a refugee is
defined as someone with a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons
of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion.

The State Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment regarding how the white South Africans fit into the conventions definition,
or why this group was given priority over requests from other groups
fleeing persecution in countries like Sudan, the Republic of Congo or
Myanmar.

Judge pauses Trump's effort to reduce the size of the federal government Chrispin Phiri, a spokesperson for South Africas Ministry of International Relations and Cooperation, said in a statement Friday: It is most
regrettable that it appears that the resettlement of South Africans to the United States under the guise of being refugees is entirely politically motivated and designed to question South Africas constitutional democracy;
a country which has in fact suffered true persecution under Apartheid rule
and has worked tirelessly to prevent such levels of discrimination from
ever occurring again.

On Friday, White House deputy chief of staff and homeland security adviser Stephen Miller defended the resettling of the Afrikaners even as refugees
from other countries were barred from the U. S.
Whats happening in South Africa fits the textbook definition of why the
refugee program was created, Miller said. This is race-based persecution.
The refugee program is not intended as a solution for global poverty, and historically, it has been used that way.

Shawn VanDiver, the president of AfghanEvac, a San Diego-based coalition
that helps Afghans evacuate and resettle in the U. S. , said the Trump administration does not get to cherry-pick which victims deserve safety.
If Stephen Miller suddenly supports refugee resettlement when it suits a political narrative, fine but lets not pretend Afghan allies dont meet the same legal definition, VanDiver told NBC News. Race-based persecution is
real in many places but so is religious, political, and gender-based
violence. Thats exactly what Afghans are fleeing.

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