Rep. Ilhan Omar is predictably upset with Donald Trump’s offer to resettle persecuted White South Africans.
In one of his first executive orders after taking office, Trump halted all refugee resettlement programs implemented under the Biden administration.
However, he has since announced an exception for Afrikaners, the White descendants of Dutch colonialists in South Africa, who face vicious anti-White persecution at the hands of the ruling regime.
This persecution mainly involves land seizures but also involves general discrimination, harassment, or violence.
Around 17,000 White South Africans, sometimes known as Boers, have applied for refugee status.
“I think making our refugee resettlement system into one that is discriminatory obviously is problematic,” said Omar, who entered the U.S. by obtaining refugee status, in an interview with HuffPost.
“It’s currently halted, and he wants to make an exception only for white people — that just is plainly wrong and ridiculous.”