U.S. REFUGEE POLICY: WHITE - ALL RIGHT, BLACK - GO BACK

They’re calling it ‘asylum.’ But what it really looks like is apartheid in disguise.

Under Donald Trump’s administration, White farmers from one of the wealthiest demographics in South Africa began arriving in the US as ‘refugees.’ They weren’t fleeing war. Nor famine. They were ‘escaping’ supposed ‘persecution’ in a country where they still own more than 70% of private farmland, despite making up barely 7% of the population. No gen*cide. No invasion. Just grievance politics dressed up as humanitarian crisis.

Meanwhile, Sudan is suffering from the world’s worst humanitarian and displacement crises - with over 14-million people having fled their homes due to war. The DRC is bleeding from decades of foreign-backed conflict. In October 2024, the UN’s special rapporteur for human rights in Palestine said the world must recognise what is happening in Gaza as a gen*cide. The Lancet medical journal estimated that, by July 2024, the number of deaths may have exceeded 186,000 (mostly women and children). By the end of 2024, around 1.8-million Palestinians reportedly experienced critical levels of hunger. But where are the US refugee programmes for them?

Let’s not forget: Trump gutted refugee quotas, demonised Latin-American migrants and built a wall to keep Black and Brown people out. Yet somehow, the door was flung open for White South Africans who felt ‘unsafe’ in a country they economically dominate.

This is not about safety, it’s about race. It’s about who gets to claim pain and be believed; who gets to flee and find refuge; and who gets left to die in silence.

So we ask the question: do you have to be White and disgruntled to be recognised by the US as a refugee?