👻 Since Last October 6,668 Refugees Have Been Admitted to the United States. 6,665 Have Been White South Africans. That's 99.96%.
While real refugees around the world are locked out, Trump is spending public money on the racist fantasy of “white genocide.”
In a world overflowing with refugees, the United States has decided who deserves rescue…
White South Africans - the only obese “refugees” in the world.
Not Palestinians fleeing genocide in Gaza. Not Sudanese families fleeing mass slaughter. Not Congolese families fleeing war. Not Haitians. Not Syrians. Not Yemenis. Not Afghans who risked their lives alongside the United States.
White South Africans.
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According to Mother Jones, every single one of the 599 refugees admitted into the United States last month was a white South African.
That is 100%.
Mother Jones also reported that since October 1, 2025, the United States has admitted 6,668 refugees. Of those, 6,665 were white South Africans. Just three were from Afghanistan.
That means 99.96% of all refugees admitted into the United States during that period were white South Africans.
Sit with that number.
99.96%.
That is not a coincidence. That is not an accident. That is not a bureaucratic glitch. That is not “humanitarian concern.” That is a government policy so racially obvious that pretending not to see it becomes its own kind of lie.
This is open white supremacy.
I do not say that casually. I am not saying every white South African refugee is a bad person. I am not saying every family who came here under this program is lying about their fears or hardships. Human beings are complicated, and governments often use ordinary people as props for ugly political projects.
But the policy itself is what it is.
In a world full of refugees, Donald Trump has created a refugee system that overwhelmingly admits white South Africans while almost everyone else is shut out.
According to Reuters, Trump raised the refugee admissions ceiling by 10,000 specifically to allow more white South Africans into the United States. Reuters also reported that the administration had admitted only three non-South African refugees this fiscal year.
According to Mother Jones, the State Department estimated the cost of resettling those additional 10,000 Afrikaner refugees at $100 million.
One hundred million dollars.
For this.
For the racist fantasy of “white genocide.”
The Trump administration has claimed white Afrikaners are facing an emergency in South Africa. But the Associated Press reported that the South African government, and white Afrikaner advocacy groups themselves, rejected the claim that white South Africans are facing a humanitarian emergency. Reuters reported that South Africa’s foreign ministry called the assertion that white Afrikaners face systemic persecution “entirely without foundation.”
And still, Trump built the program around them.
This is the moral obscenity.
The world is not short on refugees. The world is full of them. Gaza has been turned into a landscape of mass graves, destroyed hospitals, starving children, amputees, widows, orphans, and families who have been displaced again and again by Israel’s genocide. Sudan is suffering one of the worst humanitarian catastrophes on earth. Congo has millions displaced. Haiti is collapsing under violence, hunger, and political chaos. Afghanistan still has families who were abandoned after serving alongside American forces. Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Myanmar, Ukraine, and so many other places are full of people with urgent, undeniable claims to refuge.
And yet the United States looked out at all that human suffering and said, in practice, we choose white South Africans.
Not some.
Not many.
Nearly all.
99.96%.
That number should haunt every decent person in this country. It should be repeated in every interview. Every Trump official should be forced to answer for it. Every Republican who claims to care about religious freedom, persecution, refugees, or human rights should be asked whether they support a refugee program that has admitted 6,665 white South Africans and just three people from everywhere else.
Because this is not refugee policy.
This is racial preference dressed up as humanitarianism.
And it becomes even more grotesque when you remember the history. Afrikaners are not just any ethnic group in South Africa. They are descendants primarily of European settlers, and their political institutions helped build and enforce apartheid, one of the most infamous systems of racial domination in modern history. That does not mean every Afrikaner alive today is guilty of apartheid. Children do not inherit personal guilt for the sins of their ancestors.
But history matters.
And it is morally obscene for the United States to treat white South Africans as the world’s emergency refugee population while Black South Africans still live with the economic and social aftermath of apartheid. It is obscene to turn the beneficiaries of a racial caste system into the face of global victimhood while people actually being bombed, starved, occupied, displaced, and hunted are told to wait outside.
This is how white supremacy works in policy.
It does not always announce itself with a burning cross. Sometimes it arrives as a memo. Sometimes it arrives as a refugee ceiling. Sometimes it arrives as a $100 million allocation. Sometimes it arrives as a spreadsheet where 6,665 out of 6,668 people just happen to come from the racial group that Trump, Elon Musk, and the far right have decided to mythologize as victims of “white genocide.”
And we are supposed to pretend this is normal.
No.
It is not normal.
It is not moral.
It is not defensible.
It is not Christian. It is not democratic. It is not humanitarian. It is not even subtle.
One of the things Islam teaches, and something I want my non-Muslim readers to understand, is that justice cannot be tribal. The Qur’an commands believers to stand firmly for justice, even when that witness is against themselves, their parents, or their own people. You can read that command in Qur’an 4:135. That teaching matters here because it cuts directly against the sickness of racial favoritism. It says truth and justice must not bend around tribe, nation, party, family, or race.
That is exactly what America is violating.
A just refugee system does not ask, “Who looks like our preferred political fantasy?”
A just refugee system asks, “Who is in danger?”
A just refugee system does not turn away the world’s desperate while rolling out the red carpet for the far right’s favorite racial grievance.
And that is what makes the 99.96% figure so damning. It does not require a complicated explanation. It exposes the whole thing.
If a refugee program admits 6,665 people from one white group and three people from the rest of the planet, the burden of proof is not on us to prove racism.
The burden is on them to explain how it could be anything else.
This is where mainstream political language fails. They will call it “controversial.” They will call it “unusual.” They will call it “a dramatic shift.” They will call it “prioritizing Afrikaners.” They will call it “refugee policy.”
But a country that admits virtually no refugees except white South Africans is practicing open racial preference.
A country that spends $100 million on a racist conspiracy theory while slamming the door on people fleeing actual war and genocide is not confused.
It is showing us its values.
And Trump’s values are clear.
He sees white grievance as an emergency.
He sees Black and brown suffering as background noise.
This is why The North Star exists. We are not here to politely describe white supremacy until it becomes invisible. We are not here to launder racism through bureaucratic language. We are here to tell the truth plainly, with receipts, and this truth is plain: Donald Trump has turned America’s refugee program into a 99.96% white South African pipeline.
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Love and appreciate each of you.
Your friend and brother,
Shaun
What are your thoughts on this? It's truly outrageous. And we are paying for it.
I'm a white South African who's been living elsewhere (Europe) for 15 years. I would never dream of claiming refugee status anywhere nor would I ever wish to deprive anyone of protection. I'm not wealthy or privileged but all I can say is any white South African who goes to the US as a refugee has to be from the bottom of the barrel. It's embarrassing.