{"id":23026,"date":"2025-11-15T23:27:46","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T23:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=23026"},"modified":"2025-11-15T23:27:46","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T23:27:46","slug":"trumps-racially-discriminatory-refugee-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=23026","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s Racially Discriminatory Refugee Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8180937\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8180937\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" data-credit=\"NA\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d2eehagpk5cl65.cloudfront.net\/img\/q60\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Refugees-Welcome-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/d2eehagpk5cl65.cloudfront.net\/img\/q60\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Refugees-Welcome-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/d2eehagpk5cl65.cloudfront.net\/img\/q60\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Refugees-Welcome-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/d2eehagpk5cl65.cloudfront.net\/img\/q60\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Refugees-Welcome-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/d2eehagpk5cl65.cloudfront.net\/img\/q60\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Refugees-Welcome-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/d2eehagpk5cl65.cloudfront.net\/img\/q60\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Refugees-Welcome.png 1161w\" data-lazy-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"https:\/\/d2eehagpk5cl65.cloudfront.net\/img\/q60\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Refugees-Welcome-300x300.png\"\/><noscript><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8180937\" src=\"https:\/\/d2eehagpk5cl65.cloudfront.net\/img\/q60\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Refugees-Welcome-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" data-credit=\"NA\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d2eehagpk5cl65.cloudfront.net\/img\/q60\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Refugees-Welcome-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/d2eehagpk5cl65.cloudfront.net\/img\/q60\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Refugees-Welcome-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/d2eehagpk5cl65.cloudfront.net\/img\/q60\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Refugees-Welcome-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/d2eehagpk5cl65.cloudfront.net\/img\/q60\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Refugees-Welcome-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/d2eehagpk5cl65.cloudfront.net\/img\/q60\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Refugees-Welcome-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/d2eehagpk5cl65.cloudfront.net\/img\/q60\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Refugees-Welcome.png 1161w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"\/><\/noscript><figcaption>NA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Trump Administration <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\/news\/trump-limits-refugee-admissions-7-171132137.html\">recently announced<\/a> a coverage chopping US refugee admissions to a record-low of 7500 over the subsequent yr, whereas looking for to allocate these slots &#8220;primarily&#8221; be\u00a0 to Afrikaner South Africans and &#8220;different victims of unlawful or unjust discrimination of their respective homelands.&#8221; Given the administration&#8217;s actions to this point (<a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/volokh\/2025\/05\/18\/bigotry-hypocrisy-and-trumps-admission-of-afrikaner-refugees\/\">admitting Afrikaners while seeking to bar virtually all other refugees<\/a>), it&#8217;s apparent few or no &#8220;different victims&#8221; are going to be admitted underneath the brand new coverage. There isn&#8217;t a remotely defensible justification for this coverage, which is only a type of blatant racial and ethnic discrimination.<\/p>\n<p>As defined in my <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/volokh\/2025\/05\/18\/bigotry-hypocrisy-and-trumps-admission-of-afrikaner-refugees\/\">previous post<\/a> on this subject, I&#8217;m not against admitting Afrikaners, and there may be even a believable case they&#8217;re legally eligible for refugee standing, based mostly on the South African authorities&#8217;s\u00a0 discriminatory insurance policies (which embody numerous types of affirmative motion favoring Blacks as a method to compensate for the injustices of apartheid). However the concept white South Africans have a stronger declare to refugee standing than nearly each different group on the planet is totally absurd. Around the globe, quite a few racial, ethnic, and spiritual minorities, and victims of political persecution face vastly extra extreme discrimination and oppression.<\/p>\n<p>There isn&#8217;t a different good motive to privilege Afrikaners, both. In<a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/volokh\/2025\/05\/18\/bigotry-hypocrisy-and-trumps-admission-of-afrikaner-refugees\/\"> my earlier post<\/a>, I criticized the concept all or most white South Africans are inveterate racists, inimical to American liberal democratic values. That stereotype is simplistic and dated. However it&#8217;s additionally fallacious to make the other assumption, that they&#8217;re by some means extra attuned to these values than different would-immigrants and refugees. There isn&#8217;t a foundation for that assumption, both.<\/p>\n<p>The identical goes for claims that white South Africans can assimilate higher based mostly on language and tradition. There are a lot of potential English-speaking refugees who may just do as properly, most clearly English-speaking Black Africans fleeing oppressive governments. And, as mentioned in Chapter 6 of my e book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0197618774\/reasonmagazinea-20\/\"> <em>Free to Move: Foot Voting, Migration, and Political Freedom<\/em><\/a>, social science proof signifies that immigrants from non-English talking nations usually study the language shortly, and in any other case assimilate efficiently. In sum, there isn&#8217;t any motive to assume that Afrikaners are a greater match for America than different refugees, until being American is by some means synonymous with being white.<\/p>\n<p>Conservatives who favor color-blindness in authorities coverage in different conditions\u00a0 (as I do) would do properly to sentence Trump&#8217;s coverage right here. In any other case, it certain looks like their help for color-blindness is restricted to conditions the place whites are those deprived.<\/p>\n<p>In nearly some other space of presidency coverage, blatant racial or ethnic discrimination like this may be struck down by the courts. Sadly, Supreme Courtroom precedents like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2018\/06\/26\/supreme-court-ruling-travel-ban-ignores-religious-discrimination-column\/734697002\/\"><em>Trump v. Hawaii<\/em> <\/a>have created a double commonplace underneath which the federal government can get away with discriminatory insurance policies within the immigration discipline, that will not be permitted elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cato.org\/commentary\/supreme-courts-indefensible-double-standard-travel-ban-case-masterpiece-cakeshop#\">have argued this double standard is indefensible<\/a>, and the Supreme Courtroom ought to reverse precedents suggesting in any other case. That won&#8217;t occur anytime quickly. However, even when this type of racial discrimination in refugee coverage is authorized underneath present (badly misguided) precedent, that does not make it proper.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s extension of refugee standing to Afrikaners would possibly, <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/volokh\/2025\/05\/18\/bigotry-hypocrisy-and-trumps-admission-of-afrikaner-refugees\/\">I have suggested<\/a>, set a precedent for increasing it to a variety of different teams, one that may be successfully exploited by a future, extra pro-immigrant, administration. Maybe it&#8217;d sometime lead the federal authorities to rethink the present <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/volokh\/2022\/06\/20\/the-case-for-expanding-the-legal-definition-of-refugee\/\">unduly narrow legal definition of &#8220;refugee,&#8221;<\/a> which excludes victims of many forms of extreme oppression. Trump and his minions certainly do not intend any such results. However unintended results typically happen with authorities insurance policies.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, Trump&#8217;s coverage of favoring white South Africans whereas barring nearly all different refugees, is totally reprehensible. If you happen to help color-blindness and abhor racial and ethnic discrimination in different contexts, you must condemn it right here, too.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/volokh\/2025\/11\/15\/trumps-racially-discriminatory-refugee-policy\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NA The Trump Administration recently announced a coverage chopping US refugee admissions to a record-low of 7500 over the subsequent yr, whereas looking for to allocate these slots &#8220;primarily&#8221; be\u00a0 to Afrikaner South Africans and &#8220;different victims of unlawful or unjust discrimination of their respective homelands.&#8221; Given the administration&#8217;s actions to this point (admitting Afrikaners [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23028,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[14941,1291,14940,2357,2013],"class_list":["post-23026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-discriminatory","tag-policy","tag-racially","tag-refugee","tag-trumps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23027,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23026\/revisions\/23027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}