Trump Bumps Up Refugee Cap ... For White South Africans

The Associated Press reports:

    The Trump administration said Tuesday that it will admit an additional 10,000 white South Africans into the U.S. as refugees this year, increasing its historically low annual cap but still blocking people from other countries from entering through the program.

    Trump suspended the refugee program on his first day in office and, since then, has turned it into a vehicle to allow Afrikaners — a group of white South Africans descended mainly from Dutch settlers — into the U.S. Advocates say the decision to focus a decades-old program on one group has left people around the world fleeing war and strife stranded and with few options.

    The administration says Afrikaners are subject to persecution in their home country, a charge the government in South Africa denies.  

The excuse given by the South African government is that South Africa has such a high murder rate that the murder rates of the Boer farmers is not abnormal. But what is abnormal is that Julius Sello Malema, the leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters--the third largest political party in South Africa--is infamous for regular chanting the anti-apartheid struggle song "Kill the Boer, Kill the Farmer" at political rallies. A chant with which the crowds join in. Nevertheless, that is not what prompted the recent bump in the refugee cap. Rather, turning back to the AP article:

    Christopher Landau, the deputy secretary of state, and Troy Edgar, the deputy secretary of Homeland Security, met with key congressional committees on Thursday as part of the legally required consultation process with lawmakers, according to two people who were granted anonymity to discuss a private meeting.

    During the hour-long session, Landau told lawmakers that one of the ways that Afrikaners had faced persecution at home was the erasure of their history in school textbooks, according to the people with knowledge of the meeting. The discussion infuriated Democrats, who called the approach and the consultation “indefensible.” 

Democrats have been trying to erase our history for decades so it no wonder they would defend South Africa doing the same.