A planeload of white South Africans who were given expedited refugee status to enter the US was welcomed at the Washington D.C.-area Dulles Airport on Monday morning by Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau and Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Troy Edgar. The VIP greetings were an extraordinary display of the openly racist policies of the Trump administration.

The South African Afrikaners are part of the white minority that ruled South Africa in the apartheid era when the black majority of more than 90 percent was denied all political rights. They were admitted to the country under an executive order signed by Donald Trump on February 7. The administration claimed that the Afrikaner farmers are the victims of racial discrimination, and even that the Afrikaners face “genocide”! The 59 “refugees” who have just arrived are only the first of thousands whom Trump is planning on welcoming in the future.

This same government has, via an executive order signed on Trump’s first day in office, halted at least temporarily the actual refugee resettlement program for thousands of Afghans, Congolese and other migrants, people who have waited months and in many cases years for entry.

Moreover, while welcoming the Afrikaners, the Trump administration has begun mass deportations, with the president promising that up to a million undocumented immigrants—workers and their families who in many cases have worked and built their lives in the country over a period of years—will be expelled without due process in the next year. And the ICE Gestapo of the Trump regime has also begun abducting and “disappearing” students with valid visas as punishment, not for the violation of any law, but for exercising their First Amendment rights to denounce the genocide in Gaza.

The claim by Trump to be fighting “racial discrimination” in South Africa while barring entry to genuine refugees was so brazen that the fascist president was questioned about it at a brief exchange with reporters on Monday. “It’s a genocide that’s taking place that you people don’t want to write about,” said Trump in response. “It’s a terrible thing that’s taking place. And farmers are being killed. They happen to be white, but whether they’re white or Black makes no difference to me, but white farmers are being brutally killed, and their land is being confiscated in South Africa.”

There is absolutely no evidence to back up Trump’s blatant lies. South Africa continues to face a high level of violent crime, but the actual data completely refute the claim of genocide. While white South Africans are about 8 percent of the total population of more than 63 million, only 2 percent of murder victims are white. The robberies of white-owned farms have led to about 50 murders of white farmers, according to statistics covering the year 2023, but an even greater number of black workers have lost their lives in these attacks, and the farm casualties compare to a total number of murders in South Africa of 23,000 a year…