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Trump Admin Clarifies: Only WHITE Anti-Semites Will Be Granted Asylum In This Country

DATE POSTED:May 20, 2025

For years, the DHS has been expanding its intrusive surveillance of anyone attempting to enter this country. (It has also expanded this to include people leaving the country.)

The current onboarding procedure for US entry includes demands for account passwords and deep dives into devices carried by migrants, visitors, asylum seekers, and anyone else CBP officers can talk into letting them wander around in their digital lives.

This intrusiveness has now become an anti-wrongthink imperative under Trump during his second term in office. In addition to the reckless and needlessly cruel mass expulsions of anyone appearing to have come from a nation south of the US, there’s a new angle: the expulsion and/or denial of entry to anyone who doesn’t agree with the administration’s views on the Palestine-Israel conflict. Hence this announcement from the DHS back in April of this year:

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has announced it will begin screening immigrants’ social media for evidence of antisemitic activity as grounds for denying immigration benefit requests. The screenings will affect people applying for permanent residence status as well as foreigners affiliated with educational institutions. The policy will go into effect immediately.

In a statement issued Wednesday morning, the Department of Homeland Security said it will “protect the homeland from extremists and terrorist aliens, including those who support antisemitic terrorism, violent antisemitic ideologies and antisemitic terrorist organizations such as Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, or [the Houthis].”

In other words, if you spoke out against Israel’s occupation of Palestine or any of the actions it has taken during this conflict, you’re probably an antisemite and/or a terrorist. The DHS would act swiftly to ensure only migrants siding with the US’s position on this conflict were allowed into this country, and only if it couldn’t think of another reason to deny them entry.

Of course, this is all based on a deliberate misunderstanding by Trump and his administration. Disagreeing with Israel’s actions and/or supporting Palestinian independence is — and never has been — antisemitism. At best, it suggested this administration was fine with other forms of bigotry, but simply would not tolerate anyone who thought Palestinians had a right to exist.

As it turns out, it’s even more hypocritical than is considered usual for this administration. The Big Boss has bought into the conspiracy theory that there’s some sort of race war targeting white people in South Africa — something that can only be attributed to the whitest Afrikaner to ever run a dodgy government agency, Elon Musk.

Musk is a huge conspiracy theorist, and Donald Trump seemingly hasn’t met a conspiracy theorist or conspiracy theory he hasn’t liked. This brain cloud masquerading as a presidential administration is now not nearly as concerned about antisemitism… at least not when it’s being spewed by one of theirs.

One of the white Afrikaners brought into the US as refugees by the Trump administration this week has a history of antisemitic social media posts, despite the White House using alleged antisemitism as a rationale for deporting pro-Palestinian protesters.

Charl Kleinhaus posted on X in 2023 that “Jews are untrustworthy and a dangerous group.” In another post last fall, he shared a rightwing, nationalist YouTube video that was later removed, titled: “‘We’ll shoot ILLEGAL Immigrants!’ – Poland’s Illegal Islamic immigrant solution,” with clapping emojis.

A number of Kleinhaus’s posts also promote the conspiracy theory that white people in South Africa are being particularly persecuted.

So much for vetting the migrants. I guess there’s no reason to suspect a white guy might be a problem, not when there’s so many Venezuelans to send to El Salvador. Kleinhaus has since confirmed those posts came from his accounts, but not without deploying the only excuse less believable than “my account was hacked.”

[H]e insisted to the Times that he was not antisemitic and claimed to have written a post in error while on medication.

Ah, the Barr defense. And note that Kleinhaus only claimed “a” post (singular!) was written “in error” while all drugged up on whatever form of off-label self-medication is currently popular within the South African white trash community. Cue the goose meme:

I mean, the report listed at least two antisemitic tweets. And then it said this dude spent a lot of time promoting the “white men are the real victims here in post-apartheid South Africa” conspiracy theory. Blaming a single post on drug use isn’t the win Kleinhaus seems to think it is. Then again, the real win is getting a free pass to come to America to make it worse than it already is because the whole oppression thing is too hard back home.

And here’s how the DHS is handling this hypocrisy: by pretending it’s not even happening.

A senior DHS official said in a statement: “The Department of Homeland Security vets all refugee applicants. Any claims of misconduct are thoroughly investigated, and appropriate action will be taken as necessary. DHS does not comment on individual application status.”

It’s a statement that says nothing one way or the other. It has all the distinctive features of a vacant apartment’s walls. It’s the color beige described in 32 words, each one more meaningless than the last.

We don’t expect honesty from our government PR reps. We certainly don’t expect it from Kristi Noem or her boss, whose eyelids and soles are far whiter than even this Afrikaner antisemite can ever hope to be. This is how things work in the United States: white is right, even when it’s wrong. The only thing that’s changed is that this administration can’t even be bothered to offer up a credible excuse for its racist policies and actions.