White House instructs US diplomats that only 100% pure whites qualify for refugee programs

[east]

In early July, the top official at the U.S. embassy in South Africa reached out to Washington asking for clarification on a contentious U.S. policy: could non-whites apply for a refugee program geared toward white South Africans if they met other requirements?

President Donald Trump's February executive order establishing the program specified that it was for "Afrikaners in South Africa who are victims of unjust racial discrimination," referring to an ethnic group descended mostly from Dutch settlers.

In a diplomatic cable sent July 8, embassy Charge d’Affairs David Greene asked whether the embassy could process claims from other minority groups claiming race-based discrimination such as "coloured" South Africans who speak Afrikaans. In South Africa the term coloured refers to mixed-raced people, a classification created by the apartheid regime still in use today.

The answer came back days later in an email from Spencer Chretien, the highest-ranking official in the State Department's refugee and migration bureau, saying the program is intended for white people. The email was described to Reuters by three sources familiar with its contents.

The State Department, responding to a request for comment on July 18, did not specifically comment on the email or the cable but described the scope of the policy as wider than the guidance in Chretien's email. The department said U.S. policy is to consider both Afrikaners and other racial minorities for resettlement, echoing guidance posted on its website in May saying that applicants "must be of Afrikaner ethnicity or be a member of a racial minority in South Africa."

Chretien declined to comment through a State Department spokesperson. Greene did not respond to Reuters requests for comment.

Trump, a Republican who recaptured the White House pledging a wide-ranging immigration crackdown, placed an indefinite freeze on refugee admissions from around the world after taking office, saying the U.S. would only admit refugees who "can fully and appropriately assimilate." Weeks later, he issued an executive order that called for the U.S. to resettle Afrikaners, describing them as victims of "violence against racially disfavored landowners," allegations that echoed far-right claims but which have been contested by South Africa's government.

Since the executive order, U.S. diplomats working to implement the program have been deliberating internally about which racial groups could be considered eligible, one of the sources said.

In the July 8 cable, Greene laid out a summary of the different ethnic and racial groups in the country before seeking guidance on eligibility. In addition to Afrikaners and mixed-race South Africans, Greene mentioned indigenous South Africans known as the Khoisan people.

He said that members of the Jewish community had also expressed interest, but that in South Africa they are considered a religious minority and not a racial group.

"In the absence of other guidance, [the U.S. embassy] intends to give consideration to well-founded claims of persecution based on race for other racial minorities," Greene wrote.

The cable forced the administration to clarify its position on whether the policy is for whites only, and if it does include other aggrieved minorities, who would qualify, two of the people familiar with the matter said.

Chretien, a conservative who wrote op-eds promoting the Heritage Foundation's "Project 2025" plan to overhaul the federal government, is the senior official at the State Department's Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration.

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/us-diplomats-asked-if-non-whites-qualify-trump-refugee-program-south-africans-2025-07-25/

 

[Diondon]

 

[Amerikan Melanin]

But I thought they didn’t believe in race based programs??

Where are our black civil rights lawyers and the CBC gonna sue for this hypocritical shyt? We need action not hand wringing.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

should have voted for kamala

 

[east]

the night crew sure avoided this thread while running up hundreds of posts complaining about refugees in others

 

[Kenny West]

The part the cacs keep quiet about when they have nikkas kekeing with them about deporting immigrants

 

[Robbie3000]

This sounds like a policy Tariq Nasheed and his FBA gang can get behind. They must be rejoicing.

 

[Rollie Forbes]

Donald Trump may be a racist, white nationalist, son of a klansman, but at least he doesn't wash his greens in the bathtub!

 

[get these nets]

No matter what Trump does, in 2043 whites will no longer make up the majority population in America.

 

[HarlemHottie]

Reading this thread, I realized I've NEVER met a black South African. I've known several boers though. I looked it up and I'm not wrong.

Most South African immigrants in the US are white people of European origin. Of the 82,000 South Africans living in the US between 2008 and 2009, about 11,000 of them were Black South Africans.[7] In the 2000 Census, 509 South African Americans reported their ethnic origins as Zulu.[8]

South African Americans - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

So, this has lowkey always been the case.

 

[BaggerofTea]

If you are black and gave any difference to trump.

You are a supreme idiot

 

[ORDER_66]

but dont posters here tell us giving govt money based on race they cant do???

 

[Regular Developer]

 

[HarlemHottie]

I just want to remind everyone, our country's official position was pro- de Klerk and apartheid. (I know bc I was at the protests as a little kid.)

This is why black South Africans weren't offered asylum during that period.

 

[Yaboysix]

Them lil sprinkle of Crackas ain't gonna make a difference in the US. They can pool all the white people from round the world as they want, they STILL gonna be the minority. And that's what they fear.