The first is that in the space of just three weeks in office Donald Trump has effectively created a Westerners only refugee admittance policy to the United States. On his first day in office Trump’s administration issued the “Realigning the United States Refugee Admissions Program” executive order which shut down all refugee admittance into the county.
The shutdown has been so complete that even refugees already approved to relocate to the United States have not been allowed to do so. After decades of governments, international institutions, and individual people ignoring the safe third country/country of first asylum rules of international law it is clearly incumbent upon individual country’s to set refugee admittance policies that work best for them because the international framework has utterly failed.
There are dozens of wealthy proudly Arab states where an Arab refugee from Yemen or the embattled Palestine can find refuge. There are numerous other African or Caribbean proudly Black states where an African can find sanctuary and there are decidedly safe and prosperous Latin American countries where a Hispanic can find safe harbor. What does not exist, or did not exist until now, was a proudly Western country where someone of European descent could find refuge and safe harbor.
Which brings me to the second point to consider in this Afrikaner/White South African refugee admittance policy. The administration is admitting a group of Europeans that men like Thomas Jefferson would have recognized as natural Americans in the making. To quote the third president:
“Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous, and they are tied to their country and wedded to its liberty and interests by the most lasting bonds.”
The Afrikaners are the type of Protestant, Northwestern European, yeomen farmers that served to create the foundational culture which would eventually evolve into the ethnic American way of life (before it was interrupted by the multicultural experiment).
Afrikaners and by extension the Anglo South Africans are exactly the sort of group which use to have and justifiably must have priority for immigration to the United States if this country is to remain recognizably American and recognizably Western in its composition, culture, religion, and law.
Afrikaners will understand the freedoms that Americans cherish. Freedom of speech, the right to private property, the right to bear arms, and a right to a safe and secure community are things that White South Africans have lacked for decades and it is likely they will be willing to reinforce these damaged but not yet destroyed freedoms that ethnic Americans still value.
Every Western people is in a fight for its survival and Americans and White South Africans have a lot in common.
