Trump welcomes a group of “refugees” from South Africa, extraordinary hypocrisy

About a week ago, the United States welcomed the first group of white refugees from South Africa, a country famous for its racism known as “Apartheid,” which has meant the separation of races for many years. The current Trump administration has welcomed with open arms white farmers from South Africa, most of whom are of Dutch descent and have controlled the country's agricultural and economic life for more than a century.

As we know, after many years of struggle, black indigenous Africans, led by the famous civil rights activist Nelson Mandela, who, like Martin Luther King and El Padre Hidalgo, helped the indigenous people in their struggle for civil rights, took power in the 1990s after suffering one of the greatest racial persecutions in the world.

According to Trump and his followers, including his collaborator, billionaire Elon Musk, who is also a white South African, the poor white farmers are being discriminated against by the current government, which is controlled by the indigenous black people, and have begun to take away their land, which they are not using, from white people, which has led to protests by white people who have friends among right-wingers in the United States and Europe.

For years, Trump, beginning his first term, has always had sympathy for them while discriminating against refugees from other countries, including the approximately 300,000 people in refugee camps in Africa, waiting to come to the United States after being approved for a refugee visa, not to mention the millions of victims of political and socioeconomic repression in Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba, Afghanistan, and Ukraine, whom we initially welcomed and now want to close the doors on and remove from the United States.

It is truly ridiculous and unjust that white South Africans can come to the United States with all the comforts the government can offer, and there is even a plan for the entry of thousands more, while on the other hand they are closing the doors to asylum seekers and violating the human rights of all other nationalities.

Several politicians in Washington have drawn attention to this abuse, and we must expose the hypocrisy of this government as soon as possible and continue to fight for the right to asylum and the safety of refugees from any country or race.

It is shameful that the Trump regime benefits this group of white people, who have historically maintained a racist government and generally live in good socioeconomic conditions, while at the same time millions of people worldwide suffer human rights violations and the limitations imposed by the Trump administration when trying to come to or stay in the United States. We must insist that asylum and refugee laws and programs be consistent and fair for all victims of abuse, not just for a small segment of white South Africans who have a history of abuse against the indigenous people of color.

In the coming weeks, I will discuss some pending legal actions regarding the rights of asylum seekers here in the United States.