President Donald Trump’s overhaul of US refugee policies has created a major shift in the number and nationalities of people admitted to the country, US government data shows.

Since October 2025, 4,499 refugees were resettled in the US, according to the Refugee Processing Center. All, except three from Afghanistan, were South African.

In the last full fiscal year of the Biden administration, which started in October 2023, 125,000 people were accepted from 85 countries.

Last year, Trump halted all refugee admissions, including for applicants from warzones, but allowed Afrikaners, a white minority group he said was persecuted, to seek resettlement. South Africa objected to his characterisation.

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      Well yeah, because of the active genocide against white Afrikaners.

      Conversely, there’s nothing of interest going on in Afghanistan and the US has no obligations to any sympathizers or collaborators there, so I’m not sure why we’re letting 3 people flood our country.

      Edit: this is sarcasm. Can’t believe I need to say it.

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        I can’t believe there are still people that thinks sarcasm can be easily read through text without an indicator.

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          “nothing interesting going on in Afghanistan”

          “no obligation to any sympathizers or collaborators there”

          “letting 3 people flood our country

          Touch some grass if you’re so used to strawmen that this isn’t immediately obvious as sarcasm.

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            You do realize many people don’t generally read every comment in detail, especially ones they saw as right wing rethoric because of your first sentence? It’s not like there is much to gain from reading such a comment properly.

            Your first mistake is that the first sentence was too convincing, making any hints later that isn’t a literal sarcasm indicator completely useless to a lot of people. A joke is all about the delivery, and a good comedian adjusts their delivery to their audience. By the way you react to people, I can tell you have trouble with both of those.

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        People can’t tell it’s sarcasm because every day we encounter people who would say exactly these stupid things in earnest.

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          The fact that most of the link is coming from things the president of the United States has said and done? And he still maintains an approval rating around 33%? Yeah, about a third of the US voting population would 100% say things like this without sarcasm, because they’re just parroting Dear Leader.

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        Edit: this is sarcasm. Can’t believe I need to say it.

        Even here there are some who would say it without any sarcasm, so yes, it needs to be said. Or better indicated. Quotes around “active genocide” with the same article link would probably make it more obvious.

        I expected it to be sarcasm and still re-read to make sure.

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          Even here

          Really? Did I just manage to block all of the actual cons on lemmy? Can you link a couple GOP or MAGA accounts just so I can see where the chuds hang out on the fediverse? I know about maga place but I think there are only like 3 of them over there circlejerking

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            Ive blocked them, so maybe you did too. There’s some really hard right to be found at random. Who knows, maybe just trolls.

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        Strange to link the words “active genocide” to an article that reads,

        Claims of white genocide in South Africa have been entirely discredited