US grants asylum to 54 white Afrikaner South Africans, reports say

Clayton Bigsby approved.

 

no evidence they are bulls fans or wife beaters

 

THOSE PEOPLE WENT THOUGH THE LEGAL IMMIGRATION SYSTEM... Not the same as ILLEGAL criminal invaders from prisons that broke into our county...

You Dems love to purposefully conflate the two very different matters.

 

Thank you for this thread. I absolutely cannot wait for the pretzel logic on this

 

You really didn't read the article, did you?

The 100,000 people were approved for resettlement, making them legal immigrants.

 

"Bring me your racist, your aggrieved, your entitled, your anti-social ..."

 

If I remember correctly, I think Trump has spoken out about the land redistribution plans of the ANC government in South Africa. Also, the current government supporting Hamas is probably not helping them with this White House.

South Africa is not in a good spot right now so it is not surprising that some of their white citizens want to immigrate.

 

Trying to figure out how these people are different from other refugees.

Hmmm. .....

 

I think we all know the answer.

 

I wonder why the richest man in the world can’t drop $5m a pop for “Gold Cards”?

 

The people wanting to immigrate are likely higher educated and higher skilled. That is probably the first argument at the top of the briefing memo. It is something Trump has talked about on this topic.

Additionally, I’m willing to bet this WH would argue these people are being persecuted due to their race by their government and actually need asylum. Not sure I buy that argument is better than the claims of some other folks coming to the US but I'm sure that is how this Admin will play it up.

Not up to date on the demographics of Venezuela so I cannot accurately respond to that part of your question.

 

If education matters why is the Trump Administration deporting this guy? Although the Administration hasn't begun the deportation process targeting him yet, his temporary protected status was withdrawn making him eligible for deportation.
Fearing deportation, a beloved music teacher gives a final lesson
On the day before spring break at Forest Grove Elementary School in Northern Virginia, students bounded through the halls with backpacks swinging behind them. They wiggled in their seats, eager for vacation.
But in Jesús Rodríguez’s music classroom, the mood was somber.

“Don’t leave us!” one student shouted to Rodríguez after the class sang a medley. Other fourth- and fifth-graders wrapped their arms around one another, wiping tears from their eyes.

Rodríguez, a Venezuelan national, was legally living and working in this D.C. suburb under a humanitarian parole program that the Trump administration announced would end early. Without a clear path to stay legally, he decided to leave the United States, worried he could end up inside a Salvadoran prison — separated from his wife and 6-year-old daughter — if he didn’t.

 

I want to be clear I am not defending this but just trying to provide the likely reasoning the Trump Admin is using. I also know some folks in South Africa and have a bit of familiarity with the country.

The individual in the WaPost article appears to be part of a large group of people affected by the Trump Admin decision to revoke a Biden Admin program. Reading the OP's article, it appears the Trump Admin set up a different EO for South Africans.