The Left welcomes refugees—unless they’re White
On Monday, 59 White South Africans arrived in the United States under the Trump administration’s new refugee program.
President Trump is fast-tracking refugee status for White South African natives, also known as Afrikaners, who are being persecuted by the country’s Black supremacist government controlled by the African National Congress (ANC). Indigenous White farmers, known as Boers in Afrikaans, are the targets of racial laws that mandate Black quotas. Land farmed by Boers typically has been passed down for generations stretching back before the country’s regime change in 1994. Boers are often destitute and repeatedly attacked in racial killings by ANC supporters, though mainstream media have insisted that no White genocide is taking place in South Africa.
"It's a genocide taking place that you people don't want to write about,” President Trump admonished reporters in the Oval Office on Monday in response to a question about the South African refugees. “White farmers are being brutally killed, and their land is being confiscated . . . and the newspapers, and the media, and the television media doesn't even talk about it.”
The Episcopal Church, however, which runs a refugee resettlement program funded by the federal government, is refusing to help the White South African refugees, citing “racial justice.”
“In light of our church’s steadfast commitment to racial justice and reconciliation and our historic ties with the Anglican Church of Southern Africa, we are not able to take this step,” announced Bishop Sean Rowe on behalf of Episcopal Migration Ministries, adding that the church will terminate its contracts with the Trump administration.
“We have determined that, by the end of the federal fiscal year, we will conclude our refugee resettlement grant agreements with the U.S. federal government.”
White genocide
For years, the ANC has been accused of perpetrating a genocide against the White population, which the legacy media have dismissed as a “far-right conspiracy theory.” In 2018, Trump ordered Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to investigate the murders of Boers following a report by Fox News on the issue.
White South African farmers have been targeted in massacres for decades, which the nonprofit group Genocide Watch has said are planned as part of a genocide against Whites. According to a report by AfriForum last year, there were 296 reported attacks on Afrikaner farms in 2023 and 49 murders, one less than in 2022. Only a handful of murder suspects are arrested and convicted.
Violent rhetoric among politicians extends beyond Julius Malema’s calls to “kill the Boer.” MP Andile Mngxitama, who was elected to Parliament last year, has called for a genocide of Whites if even one Black person is killed.
In addition to murders, hundreds of thousands of destitute White Boer Afrikaners who live in large squatter camps also face death from cholera and other diseases wrought by poor sanitation and a contaminated water supply. Aid workers have blamed the disease-related deaths on intentional neglect by local ANC councils.
"Every year, these brave descendants of the proud Boer people have to fight court battles against evictions by town and city councils everywhere,” said aid worker Gideon van Deventer, according to Israel National News.
"Sometimes these councils employ sly tactics, like charging the destitute for allegedly contravening all sorts of obscure council regulations, which is clearly a form of harassment and intimidation, as they own nothing, are clearly indigent, and can by no means be perceived as a threat to the mighty ANC in any form whatsoever.
"The ANC council and government policies of 'blacks first' will eventually be their ruin, especially if this case turns into an epidemic or a human rights disaster," van Deventer said.
This grim picture of Afrikaner life — particularly the farm murders — is said to be carefully constructed by the ANC, which reportedly intends to eliminate the White race from South Africa.
‘Kill the Farmer, Kill the Boer’
Since taking power in 1994 after the apartheid era, the ANC has advocated for government intervention to arrange for Blacks to own more land, saying it would bring more economic and political security. This idea took on a radical tone when Julius Malema, the founder of a militant ANC spin-off organization called Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), began urging Blacks to seize land from Whites.
“Victory will only be victory if the land is restored in the hands of rightful owners. And rightful owners unashamedly is Black people. No White person is a rightful owner of the land here in South Africa and in the whole of the African continent. This is our continent, it belongs to us,” said Malema in a 2016 speech, then suggesting that Whites should be slaughtered. Malema has publicly led EFF members in chanting “Kill the Farmer, Kill the Boer.”
Although Whites only comprise roughly 7.7% of South Africa’s population, the ANC has passed several laws targeting Whites by requiring Black participation to receive basic resources. In November 2023, for example, the Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development issued a notice restricting agricultural export permits from farms that are too White. In May 2023, ANC officials proposed race-based water quotas that would only grant water use licenses to farms that employed a certain percentage of Blacks. South African-born Elon Musk has said that his company, Starlink, is prohibited from operating in South Africa because the company does not have enough Black ownership.
South African entrepreneur Robert Hersov told podcaster Dave Rubin in March that the ANC has implemented 140 anti-White laws in South Africa.
“There's been endless laws, anti-White, boiling us like a frog in a bowl,” said Hersov.
Ironically, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa used that same frog-boiling metaphor decades ago to describe his plan to subjugate Whites. Political veteran Mario Oriani-Ambrosini in his memoirs recalled a conversation he once had with Ramaphosa in the 1990s during negotiations for a new South African Constitution.
“In his brutal honesty, Ramaphosa told me of the ANC’s 25-year strategy to deal with the whites: it would be like boiling a frog alive, which is done by raising the temperature very slowly,” Oriani-Ambrosini wrote. “Being cold-blooded, the frog does not notice the slow temperature increase, but if the temperature is raised suddenly, the frog will jump out of the water. He meant that the black majority would pass laws transferring wealth, land, and economic power from white to black slowly and incrementally, until the whites lost all they had gained in South Africa, but without taking too much from them at any given time to cause them to rebel or fight.”
Trump freezes funding to South Africa
In February, President Donald Trump announced a freeze on funding to South Africa over the ANC’s confiscation of White land.
“South Africa is confiscating land, and treating certain classes of people VERY BADLY,” the president wrote on Truth Social. “It is a bad situation that the Radical Left Media doesn’t want to so much as mention. A massive Human Rights VIOLATION, at a minimum, is happening for all to see. The United States won’t stand for it, we will act. Also, I will be cutting off all future funding to South Africa until a full investigation of this situation has been completed!”
But President Trump also appeared to reference the White genocide as a factor in his decision.
“Terrible things are happening in South Africa,” he told a reporter. “The leadership is doing some terrible things, horrible things. So that's under investigation right now. We'll make a determination, and until such time as we find out what South Africa is doing — they're taking away land and confiscating land, and actually they're doing things that are perhaps far worse than that."
