In a twisted update on the immigration revisionist policies, 59 Afrikaners landed at Dulles International Airport on Monday as part of a resettlement program initiated by the Donald Trump administration. On his first day in office, President Trump curbed legal migration in a series of executive orders aimed at stemming the flow of migrants at the southern border.
Afrikaners are the descendants of Dutch colonists who established the apartheid (“apartness”) system of racial discrimination and oppression over indigenous Black South Africans.
He explained this sudden reversal was needed to address the “genocide” that has transpired since the collapse of apartheid in 1994. In the interim, efforts at land redistribution and economic empowerment to address centuries of inequality have allegedly resulted in persecution of the former ruling class.
“Farmers are being killed, they happen to be white,” Trump claimed. “…But whether they’re white or Black makes no difference to me.”
“It’s a genocide that’s taking place,” said Trump.
A large contingent of Afrikaners already live in Los Angeles, Orange County and San Diego.
In another turn of events, Newark, N.J. mayor Ras Baracka was arrested as he, along with New Jersey congressional representatives Robert Menendez, LaMonica McIver, and Bonnie Watson Coleman attempted to inspect that city’s Delaney Hall DEI Detention Facility. The recently opened facility is adjacent to a county prison, and is considered the crown jewel of Trump’s newly conceived effort to deport immigrants from the country.
Critics have said the building, contracted to run for the next 15 years for $1.2 billion, is operating without a valid certificate of occupancy. The lawmakers arrived in the wake of a lawsuit filed by the city in April, stating that electrical and plumbing issues made it unfit to be occupied. Baraka was handcuffed and arrested for trespassing, when he joined the federal legislators.
After Baraka was taken into custody, the members of Congress were granted a brief tour, and concluded the facility appeared to be adequate. The mayor was released that evening. In a later interview with the progressive news magazine The Nation, he evoked the memory of the civil rights icon to sum up the current embroglio.
“The reality is we’ve been fighting for a long time to, as Dr. King said, to make America live up to what is written on paper. That’s really what this is about.”
Baraka, the son of the late poet and politician activist Amari Baraka, is in the running for New Jersey governor in the next election.