A Look Inside the Welcome Bags Planned for White South African Refugees

[Nanjeanne]

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In the coming weeks, the United States plans to provide a welcome gift to white South Africans entering the United States as refugees.

They will get an Android tablet, an American flag and copies of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence. They will also receive a packet of literature that provides a sanitized, Trump-approved view of American and South African history, one that criticizes racial equity and civil rights laws and promotes claims of discrimination against white people.

The welcome bags include a report commissioned by Mr. Trump during his first term that downplays the role of slavery in the country’s founding, and a children’s book accusing South Africa’s government of “favoring the Black population.”

The proposal for the bags is still being finalized. Mr. Trump’s aides have planned to give them to a group of South African Afrikaners who enter the United States in the coming weeks, according to government documents obtained by The New York Times and an official familiar with the matter.

The official spoke on condition of anonymity to detail plans that have not been announced. It is not clear how much the bags cost, or how much of the cost was being paid by taxpayers. It is unusual for the government to provide welcome gifts of this kind to refugees.

[Haggard Celine]

1. Trump will give them each a set of sheets and a rope.

[dweller]

2. Plus an autographed copy

of kash patel’s book ‘the plot against the king ‘

😐


✌🏻

[Melon]

3. I think the children's book probably la is context

The Legislation in South Africa does favor the black population. This is I thought is not disputed in the least. The context is that it’s to try balance out and return some justice from the past.

“ And a children’s book accusing South Africa’s government of “favoring the Black population.”

[AZProgressive]

12. I don't buy claims of "white genocide"

I think Trump and others are upset with South Africa because they assisted Palestine in their case against Israel over actual genocide.

[struggle4progress]

4. Fuck the little creeps who are upset that apartheid ended

[crud]

5. What the fuck is wrong

with these sick fucks?

[IzzaNuDay]

6. if one of these families moves into my community

I’m going to reach out to them and say the usa government is dead wrong about what was given to them.

[Liberal In Texas]

7. Just what the country needs: Importing more racists.

[Vinca]

8. What will they say if the next POTUS decides to oust them as Trump is doing with the Haitians?

Can't say much since the SCOTUS chapter of the Trump Fan Club rubber stamped it.

[sinkingfeeling]

9. Disgusting in every way.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

10. Trump is planning white nationalist goodie bags for Afrikaner refugees

Trump intends to inculcate incoming white South Africans with right-wing propaganda, according to a New York Times report.

Trump is planning white nationalist goodie bags for Afrikaner refugees

www.ms.now/opinion/trum...

— AnarchoTerran (@anarchoterran.bsky.social) 2026-06-24T22:20:46.140Z

https://www.ms.now/opinion/trump-south-africa-refugees-welcome-bags-white-nationalism-racism

When white South African refugees enter the United States in the coming weeks, they reportedly can expect a special treat: a gift bag containing an Android tablet, copies of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence, and an American flag. Oh, and one more perk: literature that argues white people in South Africa and the U.S. are victims of discrimination — and that the U.S. Civil Rights Movement was misguided.

That’s the plan that’s being finalized in the Trump administration, according to a new story from The New York Times, which cites government documents and an official familiar with the matter, and observes that welcome gifts of this kind are “unusual.” These welcome bags are a brazen expression of white nationalism. And remarkably, they represent the White House doing exactly what MAGA conspiracy theorists love to (ludicrously) accuse the left of trying to do: Use immigration policy to boost its political fortunes.

According to the Times, the bags are expected to include a letter that reads, “The Trump administration understands America’s immigration system must put the U.S. citizen first, and only welcome in those who will assimilate into the American way of life and preserve our borders, language, culture, traditions and ideals.”

The president and his administration have long made it clear that Afrikaners are virtually the only people who fit the White House’s criteria. At a Turning Point USA event in April, Trump boasted, “We suspended all refugee resettlement — except for persecuted South Africans.” And Trump has said that the people in South Africa being “persecuted” are Afrikaners — basing his claim on white nationalist disinformation that a “white genocide” is being perpetrated in South Africa.

Singling out this population, amid all the people enduring wars and serious persecution around the world, was in and of itself a white nationalist salvo. But the letter, combined with other texts and booklets planned for the bag, take it to another level.

trump has banned all non-white people from coming to the United States but the SCOTUS claims that this is not racist

[maxsolomon]

11. Banning all non-white immigration is exactly what "The American People"

voted for in November 2024. Nativism, White Supremacy, Racism. All of them were on the ballot, and America chose poorly.

The cruelty is the point.