South Africa, once a prosperous nation, is descending into chaos. The country’s government is an incompetent kleptocracy, and their white minority, including families that have been in South Africa for centuries, are facing ever-increasing attacks and legal discrimination, up to and including outright seizure of their land and other property. The Trump administration is, according to the president and Secretary of Agriculture Booke Rollins, offering these actual refugees a home in the United States, with an expedited path to citizenship.
Secretary Rollins’ X post reads in full:
The strong tradition of South African agriculture, ranching, and conservation goes back centuries, and reflects above all else the Afrikaner devotion to land and heritage. Pioneers in the best tradition, they made gardens of the wilderness and transformed their country into the breadbasket of a continent.
Our President’s vision is the right one: this is the sort of immigrant we want, and if the South African regime now — kleptocratic, anarchic, and increasingly incompetent — does not want this historic class of entrepreneurs, then America does.
President Trump’s full statement:
South Africa is beng terrible, plus, to long time Farmers in the country. They are confiscating LAND and FARMS, and MUCH WORSE THAN THAT. A bad place to be right now, and we are stopping all Federal Funding. To go a step farther, any Farmer (with family!) from South Africa, seeking to flee that country for reasons of safety, will be invited into the United States of America with a rapid pathway to Citizenship. This process will begin immediately!