Trump has declared any non-white migrants to be garbage people from shithole countries (that’s in his own words, believe it or not) and has acted accordingly. Mass deportation efforts are a daily event, randomly punctuated by court order violations and the occasional murders of US citizens.
Trump often wonders why people from Nordic nations aren’t swarming our borders. There’s a really good reason for this: their countries are better than ours for several reasons, not the least of which is the current management.
So, while the DHS, ICE, CBP, and a bunch of other federal officers who definitely have better things to do with their time continue to eject anyone who looks kind of foreign (in terms of skin tone only), the administration has made it almost impossible for anyone living in truly dangerous countries to seek asylum here.
That is, unless, the people complaining about dangerous living conditions happen to be white. In which case, never mind all the visa-strippings and temporary protected status eliminations. Last spring, Trump made it clear he preferred a whiter brand of immigrant, announcing his willingness to accept South African whites by the boatload.
Leveraging a long-running lie about how dangerous it is for white people especially in South Africa, the administration followed through with Trump’s off-the-cuff blathering. Earlier this year, numbers released by the State Department confirmed America now has a whites-only policy when it comes to granting asylum. Of the 4,499 refugees admitted to the United States between October 2025 and the March 2026, every single one of them was a white South African.
And the bleating by administration officials (including Secretary of State Marc Rubio) about “white genocide” in South Africa is nothing but a cheap ruse deployed in support of making the United States whiter and more nationalist. We definitely should be offering refugee status to South African citizens and residents. But not for the pretend violence that’s being used to justify this latest announcement from the Trump administration:
The Trump administration plans to limit the number of refugees admitted to the country to 17,500 mostly white South Africans, the administration told Congress Tuesday, as it continues to transform a program that at one point served as a pathway to safety for people fleeing war and strife from countries around the world.
In a notice to Congress obtained by The Associated Press, the administration said the white South Africans faced seizures of their land and other forms of persecution and would be likely to assimilate when they come to America.
I can’t tell whether the administration means some non-white South Africans will be granted asylum, or that the ones they’re extending asylum to are “mostly white” enough to be extended a privilege this government definitely isn’t willing to extend to Black South Africans, who are definitely seeing way more violence than the whites Trump is trying to “save.”
In 2024, South African police recorded 26,232 murders nationwide, of which 44 were linked to farming communities and eight victims were farmers, Reuters reported in May 2025. The report also cited Afrikaner farmers’ union TLU-SA’s tally of 1,363 white farmers murdered since 1990: an average of 40 a year, “far less than 1% of total murders.”
The narrative presented by the Afrikaner farmers’ union tries to lay the groundwork for decades of white-targeting violence. But the pervasive violence in the nation targets anyone. If anything, white farmers are a rounding error in a nation that averages 72 murders a day. And for that matter, violence targeting farmers isn’t limited to white farmers.
Of six farm-murder victims recorded from January through March 2025, five were Black, including both farm owners, two employees and a manager.
Given these numbers, the US should be opening its doors to any refugee from South Africa. A nation that has averaged 19-26,000 murders a year is a danger to everyone who resides there. But this administration has done what it always has done: decided only certain people should be allowed to escape the horrors of their homelands. Worse than that, it has been officially narrowed down to one particular race from one particular nation, proving MAGA is actually fine with “great replacements,” so long as it can replace everyone it doesn’t like with more white folks.