Mainstream media reporters are nothing if not a predictable lot, and that is certainly playing out in their “reporting” on what looks to be the impending arrival of the first group of South African refugees to the United States in the coming days.
Many news outlets dripped with disdain over President Donald Trump’s insistence on providing the white South African farmers who reportedly have faced racial discrimination, including land seizure, violence, and murder, a safe haven in America, three months after the “Addressing Egregious Actions of the Republic of South Africa” executive order he signed that directed the following:
Sec. 3. Assistance. (a) All executive departments and agencies (agencies), including the United States Agency for International Development, shall, to the maximum extent allowed by law, halt foreign aid or assistance delivered or provided to South Africa, and shall promptly exercise all available authorities and discretion to halt such aid or assistance.(b) The head of each agency may permit the provision of any such foreign aid or assistance that, in the discretion of the relevant agency head, is necessary or appropriate.Sec. 4. Refugee Resettlement and Other Humanitarian Considerations. The Secretary of State and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall take appropriate steps, consistent with law, to prioritize humanitarian relief, including admission and resettlement through the United States Refugee Admissions Program, for Afrikaners in South Africa who are victims of unjust racial discrimination. Such plan shall be submitted to the President through the Assistant to the President and Homeland Security Advisor.
CBS News, for instance, framed their story on the refugees’ upcoming arrival this way:
The hastily arranged initiative to welcome Afrikaners stands in stark contrast to the Trump administration’s move to ban most other refugees from entering the U.S.One of Mr. Trump’s first actions after returning to the White House was suspending the American refugee admissions program, stranding thousands of approved refugees who had been identified as vulnerable individuals fleeing violence and persecution in Africa, Asia and other parts of the world.[…]The processing of Afrikaners granted refugee status has also been unusually fast. Before Mr. Trump’s second term, the State Department said the refugee process, on average, took between 18 to 24 months to complete due to background checks, medical screenings and other interviews. The Afrikaners ready to travel to the U.S. have gone through that process in a matter of months or even weeks.
New York Times chief White House correspondent Peter Baker, husband of anti-Trump, far-left New Yorker staff writer Susan Glasser, sneered in a tweet that referenced a Washington Post article on the issue, and which carried the headline “Trump shut out refugees but is making White South Africans an exception”:
Leftist icons and social media influencers were also displeased with the news:
Apparently, these folks don’t know the difference between valid asylum claims and false ones:
Also, they either don’t know or don’t care about what’s happening to the white minority community in South Africa (which is also an anti-Israel country, I should point out):
For more background on what white South African farmers have increasingly faced in their home country, please read Vijeta Uniyal’s detailed write-up on the situation from August 2023.
-Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via Twitter/X.-
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