{"id":23345,"date":"2026-05-28T06:20:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T06:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trumps-plan-for-white-south-africans-is-straight-out-of-the-kkks-playbook\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T06:20:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T06:20:15","slug":"trumps-plan-for-white-south-africans-is-straight-out-of-the-kkks-playbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trumps-plan-for-white-south-africans-is-straight-out-of-the-kkks-playbook\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s plan for white South Africans is straight out of the KKK\u2019s playbook"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<div>\n<p><time datetime=\"2026-05-27T19:03:20-04:00\">May. 27, 2026, 7:03 PM EDT<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>President Donald Trump&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ms.now\/opinion\/trump-refugee-white-south-african\">racist policy<\/a> of welcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ms.now\/opinion\/msnbc-opinion\/trump-afrikaners-apartheid-refugees-genocide-rcna206660\">white South Africans<\/a> while excluding refugees from other countries is back in the spotlight after his administration raised its refugee ceiling &mdash; to bring in more white people.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/africa\/trump-raises-refugee-ceiling-by-10000-bring-more-white-south-africans-white-2026-05-26\/\">According to Reuters<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Trump increased the refugee admissions ceiling by 10,000 for &zwnj;this year to allow more white South Africans to come into the country, a signed presidential determination reviewed by Reuters showed.<\/p>\n<p>The document, dated May 21, said white South Africans of Afrikaner ethnicity face an emergency situation due to the &ldquo;incitement of racially motivated violence&rdquo; by the government and political parties in the majority-Black &#8203;country.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The document, <a href=\"https:\/\/public-inspection.federalregister.gov\/2026-10598.pdf\">found here<\/a>cites an &ldquo;unforeseen emergency refugee situation&rdquo; that doesn&rsquo;t actually exist. Trump and his allies have pushed <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/trumps-white-genocide-claims-about-south-africa-have-deep-roots-in-american-history-257510\">false claims<\/a> that a <a href=\"https:\/\/issafrica.org\/iss-today\/violent-crime-and-the-myth-of-south-africa-s-white-genocide\">&ldquo;white genocide&rdquo;<\/a> is occurring, but South Africa&rsquo;s government &mdash; and even advocacy groups representing the country&rsquo;s white Afrikaner minority &mdash; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/world\/south-african-government-afrikaners-reject-trump-administration-claim-of-a-humanitarian-emergency\">have rejected the claim<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters reported that the increased refugee limit is now 17,500 &mdash; and that only <em>three<\/em> non-South African refugees have been admitted into the U.S. this fiscal year. Reuters previously reported that the administration wanted to bring in 4,500 white South Africans immigrants <em>per month<\/em>a number that I noted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ms.now\/opinion\/state-dept-quotas-for-white-south-african-refugees-echo-a-kkk-endorsed-law\">mirrors the number of white German refugees<\/a> the Ku Klux Klan wanted to welcome to the United States a century ago &mdash; when its members were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snopes.com\/fact-check\/america-first-ku-klux-klan-slogan\/\">popularizing xenophobic slogans like &ldquo;America First&rdquo;<\/a> and launching campaigns of racist terror against people of color.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s noteworthy here that white supremacists have latched on to racist conspiracy theories, such as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/03\/18\/technology\/replacement-theory.html\">&ldquo;replacement theory,&rdquo;<\/a> saying that there is some kind of plot to replace white Americans with nonwhite people, particularly foreigners. In reality, what&rsquo;s actually underway is the exact opposite: a government effort to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.naacpldf.org\/press-release\/ice-made-400000-arrests-in-14-months-black-latinx-and-immigrant-neighborhoods-bore-the-brunt\/\">deport nonwhite people in America<\/a> &mdash; including people <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/immigration\/interactive\/2026\/trump-deportations-ice-fathers-families\/\">who have lived in the U.S. for years<\/a> &mdash; while Trump&rsquo;s regime takes steps to import white people, and as <a href=\"https:\/\/msmagazine.com\/2025\/08\/26\/moms-trump-women-pronatalist-more-babies-birth-rate-fertility\/\">some conservatives fret over white birth rates<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s hard to imagine the klan itself wouldn&rsquo;t approve of this policy<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Ja&rsquo;han Jones is an MS NOW opinion blogger. He previously wrote The ReidOut&nbsp;Blog.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ms.now\/opinion\/trump-white-south-africans-refugees-kkk-replacement-theory\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May. 27, 2026, 7:03 PM EDT President Donald Trump&rsquo;s racist policy of welcoming white South Africans while excluding refugees from other countries is back in the spotlight after his administration raised its refugee ceiling &mdash; to bring in more white people. According to Reuters: Trump increased the refugee admissions ceiling by 10,000 for &zwnj;this year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trump"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}