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Where Has All The Morality Gone?
What our country needs now is a big dose of morals and ethics
The president has halted the admission of refugees, including those who helped the US military in Afghanistan and those fleeing war in Sudan and the Congo.
But he has made one exception: White South Africans. Trump claimed this week that the Afrikaners are victims of “genocide.”
In February, when Trump signed an executive order granting refugee status to Afrikaners, he cited widely discredited claims that their land was being seized and that they were being brutally killed in South Africa.
Afrikaners landing in the US with refugee status is “deeply offensive.” The hypocrisy of this situation makes me physically ill.
Landau told reporters that Trump granted Afrikaners the exception because they had faced “egregious persecution on the basis of race.”
Asked for examples, he responded with generalities, “face the threat not only of expropriation but also of direct violence.”
When 59 relatively wealthy Afrikaners migrants touched down at Dulles this week, Christopher Landau, the №2 official in the State Department, greeted them. He said, “It is such an honor for us to receive you here…
