Racism: ABC Decries U.S. Admitting White Refugees From South Africa
13th May 2025
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ABC News finally found a group of people they didn’t want to let into America: white farmers fleeing from South Africa. That much was clear during Tuesday’s Good morning America when they decried the Trump administration for allowing farmers allegedly being targeted by the South African government to be allowed into the U.S. with refugee status. Interestingly, it was the black journalists who were the most upset.
The media often conflated the crackdown on illegal border crossings and illegal immigration with an opposition to general immigration and legitimate asylum claims. That was the backdrop as senior political correspondent Rachel Scott huffed about the refugees:
Well, the Trump administration has made it virtually impossible for many refugees to come to the United States. But the President is making a special exception for a group of 59 white South Africans who have now been granted refugee status.
Scott whined about the refugees, most of which were families with kids, getting the process expedited and a chartered flight. Becoming a mouthpiece for the South African government, she also tried to downplay the alleged discrimination while admitting it was being done to counter “the legacy of apartheid”: