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"Van Der Merwe’s family of white South Africans arrived during Donald Trump’s first term..."
"... but they had good reason to expect that they would be granted asylum after Trump returned to office last year and signed an executive order saying the US would 'promote the resettlement of Afrikaner refugees,' based on the false claim that they would be 'escaping government-sponsored race-based discrimination' at home.
In addition to a series of highly public, contentious and in some cases deadly ICE raids across several US cities, the Trump administration’s mass deportation agenda has played out more furtively at domestic and international airports. Travelers with visas, green-card holders and pending asylum cases have been detained in what some experts say is an effort to meet arrest quotas imposed on the agency by the White House.
Van Der Merwe’s law firm advised noncitizens with unresolved immigration paperwork to consult immigration attorneys before traveling by air...."From "Wisconsin state patrol trooper detained by ICE released from custody/Carel Aaron Van Der Merwe immigrated to US at 14 and has been waiting seven years for asylum case to be heard" (The Guardian).That's a pretty casual flinging of the expression "false claim." There should at least be a link to something explaining the basis for rejecting the position taken in the executive order. The word "claim" alone is enough to avoid expressing agreement.Anyway, I found this: "A check of Trump's false claims about white genocide in South Africa" (Reuters, May 22, 2025).
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The election results have spurred ann to wake up worried about ICE and civil rights. Join us, professor. It is safe to compete out for rule of law. Put down your guns and your fears and open your eyes to who your enemies really are...
Extortion, redistributive change, and rabid Diversity, South Africa is no longer the rape capital of the world in the woke of immigration reform following ethnic Springs.
Speak out, rather...
Never silence honest speech.
Even if you hate the faith of the (former)student...
Hurts you to live in an echo chamber with only meade to challenge your beliefs
Just watch the overhead videos of the transformation of their cities in South Africa.
We should start sending Democrats there. That is what they want.
This young man seeking asylum made the mistake of believing Trump’s ICE followed American law.
Nice to know that ICE has no racial bias. Just because the left doesn't recognize SA's anti-white oppression, it doesn't mean it's not there.
When Julius Malema, leader of one of South Africa’s largest parties, chants “Kill the Boers, kill the Farmers” at his rallies, and when white farmers in South Africa are regularly murdered, it lends credence to the family’s concerns. I am aware that in his latest rally Malema has been forced to say that he didn’t mean it LITERALLY, but a reasonably cautious person should properly regard this as too little, too late.
The problem seems to me to be more an issue of foot-dragging by whomever is supposed to be adjudicating the famimy’s request for asylum. Why has this case dragged on from Trump’s first term to the middle of Trump’s second?
As an aside, Althouse, I personally dismissed Reuters as a credible source decades ago, and your link took Mr to Apple News, which I also have reason to distrust.
The liberals have an extremely odd way of talking to each other. In this case, what the reporter is saying is so true that it doesn't need to be explained: White people can never be victims of racism. They can experience "prejudice" within society, but racism and prejudice are fundamentally and technically different. The distinction is important -- "racism is prejudice plus systemic power" and black people can never hold systemic power in any society.
It does not matter that Black Africans make up 95% of South Africa's population and hold all critical positions of power. The toxic legacy of White supremacy is evident in South Africa's stunning decline, its racialised poverty and inequality. And even the fact that the Whites have a bit more is based on the racist exploitation and impoverishment of Blacks and not on hard work and discipline. The liberal can never lose, not on this topic.
As a side note, now that the Jews are "Whites" as well, they are getting a taste of this medicine and they don't like it. As far as the Guardian and its readers are concerned, the horror show on October 7th was something the Israelis deserved because they are "racist."
If ICE really is responding to quotas then Acting Director David Venturella needs to end it by the day before yesterday. However an accusation of quotas is not proof of quotas, as Law Professor (Emerita) Althouse should know.
Anoher law enforcement agency that should end quotas is the Virgina State Police.
I really detest MSM use of the phrase "false claim." A claim is just that: an assertion of something. Its veracity is to be determined. If the MSM really believed the necessity of appending the unnecessary word "false" to the phrase, it would equally add "true" when it decided the assertion was accurate. Do we ever read "the true claim" in their verbiage?
Did Trump say "genocide"? As we've seen it's a very loaded word. Are most refugees and asylum seekers threatened by genocide -- or even claiming to be fleeing genocide?
Mandela's Xhosa and British empire vs Zulu and native South Africans. DEIsm is a progressive legacy of wielding liberal license to entertain abortive ideation and rape-rape culture.
The left specializes in "false claims". They fling the word like monkey poo. And many of the left's claims are actually false.
In defense of Obama's Iran deal, second Iraq war, and Hamasidal Affair for an Israeli Spring.
Is "the false claim that they would be 'escaping government-sponsored race-based discrimination' at home" called false because it was the public and not the government killing farmers and other whites? Or because the government failure to stop those killings isn't actually sponsoring discrimination? Asking the lawyer who wrote that line to clarify and expand on it.
“made the mistake of believing Trump’s ICE followed American law.”
…what’d they miss?
“in what some experts say”
…we need to decide what to call this scam…
Isn’t the rule that if any of the group is left alive, it can’t be genocide?
We will choose to use the terms “unfounded” and “false claim” at our personal discretion and in ways that best suit our long term goals.
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