{"id":475,"date":"2026-06-23T22:37:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T22:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americanlivingreport.com\/?p=475"},"modified":"2026-06-23T22:37:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T22:37:41","slug":"trumps-extraordinary-welcome-for-white-south-africans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanlivingreport.com\/?p=475","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s extraordinary welcome for white South Africans"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><em>This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/americanlivingreport.com\/?p=473\">Why Trump is losing his war against algae<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Welcome to The Logoff:<\/strong> Donald Trump is extending an unprecedentedly warm welcome to white South Africans \u2014 and virtually no one else.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s happening?<\/strong> The core of this story \u2014 the Trump administration\u2019s decision to embrace white South Africans, or Afrikaners, who claim refugee status and to exclude refugees from other countries, who often face far worse circumstances \u2014 is not new. What <em>is<\/em> new is a pair of New York Times stories published on Tuesday, detailing exactly how far the administration is going in pursuit of that objective, and who it\u2019s letting in.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>According to the Times, the US is preparing to hand out new \u201cwelcome bags\u201d to Afrikaners arriving in the US that will include an Android tablet, an American flag, copies of America\u2019s founding documents, and literature that it describes as \u201cdownplay[ing] the role of slavery in the country\u2019s founding, and\u2026accusing South Africa\u2019s government of \u2018favoring the Black population.\u2019\u201d (You can read the full NYT story with a gift link here.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>As the Times points out, such welcome bags are not normal for refugees entering the US.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/americanlivingreport.com\/?p=471\">The Supreme Court\u2019s campaign to expand religious liberty now has a glaring exception<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s the context?<\/strong> Trump, in his second term, has repeatedly championed immigration by white South Africans. In 2025, he shut down refugee admissions from the rest of the world while ushering in dozens of Afrikaners, citing \u201cgenocide.\u201d He later set the US refugee cap at 7,500 people \u2014 mostly white South Africans \u2014 and in May, raised it by 10,000 to allow in yet more Afrikaners.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>South Africa does have a problem with violence, but there is no evidence Afrikaners \u2014 and specifically white farmers \u2014 are being targeted because of their skin color, as Trump has often suggested. Notably, black South Africans, who also face violence, are not being offered the same access to refugee status in the US.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The idea of a \u201cgenocide\u201d targeting white South Africans has a long and ugly history on the right, where it began as a white nationalist conspiracy theory.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h2>And with that, it\u2019s time to log off\u2026<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Here\u2019s a fun story from Wired about the physics behind a soccer ball curving through the air, plus one cool thing from the World Cup: Why Scottish fans have been redecorating Boston statues with traffic cones.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/americanlivingreport.com\/?p=469\">The fall of Britain\u2019s prime minister is a warning for America<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Thanks for reading, have a great evening, and we\u2019ll see you back here tomorrow!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><span>See More<!-- -->:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Donald Trump<\/li>\n<li>Immigration<\/li>\n<li>Policy<\/li>\n<li>Politics<\/li>\n<li>The Logoff<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeffThe refugees getting a warm welcome \u2014 and a goodie bag \u2014 from Trump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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