After yesterday's story about the tiny number of asylum cases that are found in favor of applicants by Trump regime judges, it was extra bad to see a version of this AP story in today's Star Tribune.
The headline is "Trump administration plans to admit more white South Africans as refugees this year," and the lede sentence reads, "The Trump administration plans to admit up to 10,000 more white South African refugees into the United States in the coming months, arguing that their status as Afrikaners has left them open to discrimination and persecution at home."
Are they threatened with death and sexual violence like the Central American woman described by Steven Thal in yesterday's Star Tribune op-ed? Only in Stephen Miller's racist imagination. Are they threatened by their families with death for being adopted and somehow disgracing their clan, like the young Somali man whose story in MinnPost I belatedly appended to yesterday's post? Of course not.
The version of the AP story that ran in the Star Tribune does not carry the AP byline, and ended with two paragraphs that are not in the AP story online:
Yeah, because having your history erased from school textbooks is clearly persecution that deserves a response from governments around the world. Maybe compensation! And any country that does that to some of its people should definitely stop doing it.
How do people like Christopher Landau, who work for the Trump regime, manage to say things like this without their heads spinning right off?
Relocating 17,500 white South Africans to get them established here will cost U.S. taxpayers $100 million, according to AP. Which is only about $5,700 per person, so I'm not sure I trust that figure. It seems kind of low.
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