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muriel_volestrangler

(105,102 posts)
Thu Oct 30, 2025, 02:20 PM Thursday

Trump caps refugee admissions at 7,500 - mostly white South Africans

Source: BBC

The Trump administration will limit the number of refugees admitted to the US to 7,500, and give priority to white South Africans.

The move, announced in a notice published on Thursday, will apply for the next fiscal year and marks a dramatic cut from the previous limit of 125,000 set by former President Joe Biden.

No reason was given for the cut, but the notice said it was "justified by humanitarian concerns or is otherwise in the national interest".
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The notice posted to the website of the Federal Register said the 7,500 admissions would "primarily" be allocated to Afrikaner South Africans and "other victims of illegal or unjust discrimination in their respective homelands".

Read more: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy40jj71243o



"No reason given" since "because we're racist fucksticks" is still just a little too frank. But the subtext is there, and Miller will be admitting it proudly by the start of 2027.
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Trump caps refugee admissions at 7,500 - mostly white South Africans (Original Post) muriel_volestrangler Thursday OP
We don't need any more goddamn Musks. Klarkashton Thursday #1
The New Trump Colossus LudwigPastorius Thursday #2
What?! Not 11,780? chowder66 Thursday #3
And there are still people who wonder why many call him a racist Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Thursday #4
We will neither forget or forgive liberalgunwilltravel Thursday #5
TSF claims everything is either "in the national interest" or is a threat to "national security" except anything that sinkingfeeling Thursday #6
The number that have taken advantage of this since May is *checks notes* about 70. tanyev Thursday #7
Trump and Miller will give them financial incentives to come muriel_volestrangler Thursday #8
or is otherwise in the white nationalist interest progree Thursday #9
More recruits for ICE RazorbackExpat Thursday #10

LudwigPastorius

(13,694 posts)
2. The New Trump Colossus
Thu Oct 30, 2025, 02:29 PM
Thursday

"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to...
You know what? If they aren't white, and can't pay me, fuck 'em."

5. We will neither forget or forgive
Thu Oct 30, 2025, 04:26 PM
Thursday

Remember what happened to the Nazis after the Nuremberg trials. Looking at you, Stephen Miller.

sinkingfeeling

(56,698 posts)
6. TSF claims everything is either "in the national interest" or is a threat to "national security" except anything that
Thu Oct 30, 2025, 04:51 PM
Thursday

actually would be in the nation's best interest or to protect national security.

tanyev

(48,179 posts)
7. The number that have taken advantage of this since May is *checks notes* about 70.
Thu Oct 30, 2025, 06:14 PM
Thursday

They’re just desperate to get out.

muriel_volestrangler

(105,102 posts)
8. Trump and Miller will give them financial incentives to come
Thu Oct 30, 2025, 06:33 PM
Thursday

$20 billion to prop up his pal Milei; why not a few billion to make his white supremacist refugee policy look successful? I heard one of the ones that did come complained it was hard to get servants in the US, which shows the awful life he must have had in South Africa.

progree

(12,484 posts)
9. or is otherwise in the white nationalist interest
Thu Oct 30, 2025, 08:29 PM
Thursday

There, I fixed it. In the OP excerpt, it says:

"or is otherwise in the national interest".
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