Trump DHS Post Calling for ‘100 Million Deportations’ Suggests Intent to Kick Out Nonwhite Citizens

One journalist called it “absolutely insane Nazi propaganda, posted by the US government.”



A post by the official X account of the US Department of Homeland Security portraying “America After 100 Million Deportations” as a paradise, on December 31, 2025.
(Artwork by Hiroshi Nagai, modified and posted by the Department of Homeland Security on X)

Stephen Prager
Jan 02, 2026

COMMON DREAMS

The Trump administration provoked horror this week with the suggestion that the United States could be turned into a paradise if over a quarter of the people in the country were deported.

On Wednesday, the official social media account for the Department of Homeland Security posted a piece of artwork depicting a pink late-1960s Cadillac Eldorado parked on a bright, idyllic beach. Over the clear blue sky are the words “America after 100 million deportations.”

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The post was captioned by the agency: “The peace of a nation no longer besieged by the third world.”

Social media users later discovered that DHS had, ironically, stolen the image from the Japanese pop artist Hiroshi Nagai without giving credit.

It is hardly the first time the administration has used edgy and inflammatory social media posts to promote its agenda. But DHS has come under particular scrutiny for its style of communication, which often evokes white nationalist rhetoric and symbolism.

Posts by the agency have cheered “remigration,” a term that far-right parties in Europe have often used to describe the forced repatriation of nonwhite populations, including citizens. Other posts have referred to President Donald Trump’s “mass deportation” campaign as part of an effort to defend American “heritage” and “culture.”

The agency frequently evokes images of the American frontier and references “Manifest Destiny,” at times explicitly posting artwork glorifying the forced displacement of Native American populations.

An image by the agency, featuring a chiseled Uncle Sam calling on Americans to “REPORT ALL FOREIGN INVADERS,” was even directly sourced from an overt neo-Nazi account.

The agency has only continued to double down in the face of criticism this week. On Friday, it posted that “2026 will be the year of American Supremacy” over an image of then-Gen. George Washington crossing the Delaware River, which was emblazoned with the words “Return this Land,” a possible reference to a recently-founded “whites-only” town in rural Arkansas known as “Return to the Land.”



But Wednesday’s post calling for “100 million deportations” specifically was perhaps the most direct nod yet to those who believe the United States must be reconstituted as a white nation. As social media users were quick to point out, only about 47 million people living in America are foreign-born, according to the US Census Bureau.

Even if the administration kicked out every single immigrant—including legal residents and naturalized citizens—meeting such a goal would mean deporting 53 million people who were born in the US and are legally entitled to citizenship under the 14th Amendment.

If the use of the phrase “third world” did not make it obvious enough, the specific number—100 million—seems to betray the racial motivation behind the message.

Citing 2020 census data on the Wikipedia page for “Demographics of the United States,” one social media user pointed out that approximately 100 million people in the US identified as nonwhite.



The DHS post drew comparisons to one made earlier this year by the close Trump ally and unofficial White House operative Laura Loomer, who suggested that thanks to “Alligator Alcatraz,” the massive internment camp in Florida for those arrested by immigration agents, “the alligators are guaranteed at least 65 million meals,” which referenced the total number of Hispanic people in the United States.

While it’s almost certainly not possible for the administration to conduct a deportation campaign of such a staggering scale within Trump’s term of office, the administration’s latest post was frightening to many observers, even as they acknowledged that it was a “troll post” meant to rile people up.

It is still reflective of the Trump administration’s ideology with respect to immigration. Leaders of Trump’s deportation effort have acknowledged that they target people based on their appearance, and many nonwhite US citizens have been caught in the dragnet. Meanwhile, its refugee policy has welcomed only white South Africans, as Trump has enacted what he says is a “permanent pause on migration from all Third World Countries.”

During 2026, the administration has said it plans to target hundreds of US citizens each month for “denaturalization,” and Trump has called for it to be used against his most prominent critics, including the Somali-American Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and New York’s first Muslim mayor, Zohran Mamdani.

“This is absolutely insane Nazi propaganda, posted by the US government,” said Ben Norton, editor of the Geopolitical Economy Report in response to DHS’s call for“100 million deportations.”

“It makes it clear that the Trump administration’s mass deportation drive is not actually about ‘illegal immigration.’ There are estimated to be 14 million undocumented immigrants in the US. But the fascist DHS wants to deport 100 million people,” Norton continued. “This is a call by the US regime for ethnic cleansing of racial minorities, to create a white-supremacist regime without anyone with ‘third world’ heritage.”

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Britain 2032. A dystopian state of the nation

NOVEMBER 23, 2025

Ian Hodson looks into the future and makes an assessment of what three years under Reform rule might look like.

Foreword: A Nation Rebuilt on Fear

When Reform UK swept to power in the 2029 election, taking nearly every English constituency and unexpected gains in Wales and Scotland, supporters declared a new era of pride, sovereignty, and national rebirth.

But by 2032, what emerged was not renewal.

It was a country hollowed out by authoritarianism, exclusion, and forced conformity.

This assessment details what Britain became.

1. THE GREAT PURGE OF CITIZENSHIP

1.1 The Three-Generation Rule

The British Heritage and Security Act 2030 required proof of three generations of British lineage for full citizenship.

Thousands who had lived here their entire lives teachers, nurses, delivery drivers, parents, children, were reclassified as:

• Provisional Residents,
  
  
• Non-British Dependents, or
  
  
• Foreign-Aligned Persons.
  
  

1.2 Evictions and Exclusion

Those unable to meet the standard were:

• evicted from public housing
  
  
• removed from NHS patient lists
  
  
• barred from state education
  
  
• denied passports
  
  
• stripped of voting rights
  
  

The government’s justification:

“National resources must serve real British families.”

1.3 Segregated Access Zones

Non-white residents were redirected to Alternative Community Access Zones for basic services.

These were segregation centres in all but name.

Complaints were labelled anti-British agitation.

2. THE MEDIA TAKEOVER

2.1 The Fall of the BBC

In 2031, the BBC was dismantled and sold.

GB News Media Group gained control of the national broadcaster.

2.2 The Free Speech Ethics Code

All media were ordered to follow a strict content code banning:

• “woke messaging”
  
  
• “identity propaganda”
  
  
• critical journalism
  
  
• satire
  
  
• reporting that could “undermine national unity”
  
  

Investigative journalism disappeared.

Local radio died.

National news became state-scripted.

3. EXIT FROM THE ECHR: THE END OF RIGHTS

Leaving the European Court of Human Rights removed the last external safeguard.

3.1 The Work Sovereignty Act

This law abolished:

• the minimum wage
  
  
• health and safety laws
  
  
• unfair dismissal
  
  
• employment tribunals
  
  
• discrimination protections
  
  
• whistleblower safeguards
  
  

Employers were told workers were now “free to compete.”

Wages collapsed.

3.2 No Regulators Left

HSE, ACAS, and the EHRC were defunded or dissolved.

There was nowhere to appeal.

4. UNIONS OUTLAWED

4.1 Leaders Arrested

Union general secretaries, regional organisers, and reps were arrested on charges of

• “economic sabotage,”
  
  
• “domestic extremism” and
  
  
• “obstructing national productivity.”
  
  

4.2 Membership Criminalised

Union membership became an offence punishable by detention,

Union assets were seized.

Collective bargaining died overnight.

5. THE END OF UNEMPLOYMENT – AND OF DECENT WORK

5.1 Forced Workfare

The British Work Contribution Scheme required all adults to work at least 30 hours.

Refusal meant:

• loss of benefits
  
  
• relocation to Work Preparation Centres
  
  
• or loss of residency rights
  
  

5.2 Pensioners Drafted

Under the Elder Contribution Act, pensioners were forced into

• agricultural labour
  
  
• care work
  
  
• neighbourhood “Civic Patrols”
  
  

Those who refused lost all top-up benefits.

6. TRANSITIONAL RESIDENCY CAMPS

6.1 New Internment Sites

Across the UK, fenced compounds called Transitional Residency Centres (TRCs) housed

• those with revoked citizenship
  
  
• families awaiting lineage checks
  
  
• “heritage-incomplete” communities
  
  

6.2 No Oversight

The centres were

• privately run
  
  
• heavily monitored
  
  
• legally inaccessible
  
  
• shielded from media scrutiny
  
  

No statistics were published.

7. FOREIGN POLICY COLLAPSE

7.1 Ukraine Abandoned

Reform ended support for Ukraine and demanded repayment.

International trust evaporated.

7.2 The New Axis

Britain aligned with far-right governments across Europe and US isolationist factions.

It became known as “Europe’s rogue democracy.”

8. A NATION OF WORKERS COMPETING TO SURVIVE

8.1 Wage Auctions

Gig platforms allowed workers to bid downwards for shifts.

£2–£3/hour became normal.

8.2 Collapse of Public Services

Health services prioritised “work-ready” patients.

Education became indoctrination:

• British Heritage Academies
  
  
• Patriot Technical Colleges
  
  
• censored curricula
  
  
• monitored teachers
  
  

9. THE NATIONAL ATMOSPHERE IN 2032

Britain felt:

• watched
  
  
• divided
  
  
• fearful
  
  
• impoverished
  
  
• exhausted
  
  

Neighbour reported neighbour.

Propaganda filled screens.

Food queues lengthened.

Public speech shrank into whispers.

Britain survived, but it no longer lived.

10. THE VANISHING OF DISABLED PEOPLE

Disabled people didn’t become invisible.

They were made invisible.

10.1 The Reassessment for National Fairness Act

Disability benefits were abolished.

Assessment was outsourced.

Most claimants were declared “fit” in minutes.

Support ended immediately.

10.2 Mass Institutionalisation

Those unable to work were taken to:

• Residential Work Centres
  
  
• Community Independence Hubs
  
  
• Secure Assisted Living Facilities
  
  

Families often lost all contact.

10.3 Removal From Public Life

Accessibility laws vanished

• disabled parking bays removed
  
  
• assisted travel abolished
  
  
• mobility grants scrapped
  
  
• wheelchair access no longer required
  
  

Disabled people vanished from public spaces.

10.4 Hospital Exclusion

Hospitals prioritised those “most able to return to the workforce.”

Those with complex needs were diverted to institutions.

10.5 Behavioural Conduct Orders

People with learning disabilities, autism, or behavioural differences faced criminal penalties for,

• “non-compliance with independence targets”
  
  
• “public disruption”
  
  
• “dependency behaviours”
  
  

Many disappeared into Secure Stability Units.

10.6 Media Erasure

Disability disappeared from screens, storylines, and public appeals.

10.7 The Unpublished Statistics

Independent estimates suggested:

• tens of thousands institutionalised
  
  
• thousands dead
  
  
• vast numbers unaccounted for
  
  

The state stopped counting.

11. TESTIMONIALS FROM A BROKEN BRITAIN

Personal Stories Collected from Survivors, Witnesses, and Families

11.1 Amina — The Nurse Who Lost Her Citizenship

Amina, born in Birmingham, worked 18 years as an NHS nurse.

Her grandparents were Kenyan; she couldn’t produce their documents.

Her citizenship was revoked.

Her NHS ID stopped working.

Her children were removed from school.

She now queues in an Alternative Access Zone.

She still keeps her NHS lanyard in her handbag.

She says she can’t throw it away: “it’s the last proof I belonged.”

11.2 Peter — The Disabled Man Who Disappeared

After a four-minute reassessment, Peter lost his benefits and care support.

Officials arrived with a “Streamlined Support Pathway” order.

He texted his sister once,

“They’re taking us to a centre. Keep fighting.”

She never heard from him again.

The centre denies he was ever there.

11.3 Margaret and Bill — Pensioners in the Fields

In their seventies, they were forced into agricultural work.

Bill collapsed on the first day.

The supervisor shouted,

“If you can’t hack it, you shouldn’t get benefits.”

They now sort onions twelve hours a day.

Margaret says the worst part is hearing her husband apologise for “letting the country down.”

11.4 Olivia — The Teacher Watched by Cameras

Olivia’s pupils asked why children from “heritage-incomplete” families were removed.

She told them it was unfair.

A parent reported her for undermining unity.

She was suspended and placed on a “Behavioural Excellence” course.

She still teaches.

She refuses to give up.

11.5 The Fennings — A Family in the Camps

Unable to prove three generations, the Fennings were taken to a Transitional Residency Centre at dawn.

Inside were bunkbeds, floodlights, and ration queues.

Jacob, aged 9, asked,

“Are we criminals?”

His mother couldn’t answer.

11.6 Tom — The Worker Who Outbid Himself

On WorkMatch, Tom once bid £1.27/hour for a 14-hour shift.

He won the bid.

He told his daughter everything would be okay.

He knew it wasn’t true.

11.7 Keisha — The Campaigner Silenced

Her community group was raided.

She was detained for three weeks and forced to sign a National Integrity Contract.

She still organises, quietly. “If we stop speaking, they’ve won.”

11.8 Liam — The Boy in the Behavioural Unit

Liam, an autistic 13-year-old, had a meltdown in the lunch queue.

He was accused of “behavioural non-compliance” and taken to a Secure Stability Unit.

When his mother finally saw him, he whispered: “I’m trying to be normal, Mum.”

She hasn’t stopped fighting for him.

11.9 Matt — The Journalist Who Stopped Writing

After submitting a piece on camp conditions, he was told,“Your commitment to national values is under review.”

He shredded his notes.

He hasn’t written since.

12. THE FINAL TRUTH. HOW BRITAIN FELL

Britain did not collapse through a coup.

It slid — step by step — into authoritarianism wrapped in patriotism.

Reform said they would give Britain back to the people.

Instead, they built a country where:

• rights vanished
  
  
• neighbours feared each other
  
  
• dissent was criminal
  
  
• and entire communities were erased
  
  

The powerful prospered.

Everyone else tried to survive.

This is Britain in 2032 – a warning written in advance.

Ian Hodson is National President of the BFAWU.

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Advocates Warn of ‘Forced Labor’ Camp for Homeless People in Utah Designed to Enforce Trump Order

An advocate for the National Homelessness Law Center warned that the 1,300-bed facility could be a “pilot” to put homeless people into similar conditions to Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz.”


A conceptual rendering of Utah’s planned homeless services campus north of Salt Lake City, published on September 3, 2025.
(Image from the Utah Office of Homeless Services)

Stephen Prager
Oct 28, 2025

COMMON DREAMS

In an effort to fulfill President Donald Trump’s executive order on homelessness, Utah is building a massive facility that housing advocates warn will function as an “internment camp” where the unhoused will be subject to forced labor.

Last month, Utah’s homeless services agencies came to an agreement for the state to acquire a nearly 16-acre parcel of rural land in the Northpoint area of northwest Salt Lake City to construct the first-of-its-kind facility, which is slated to have 1,300 beds.

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The genesis of the project began in July, following Trump’s “Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets” executive order, which threatened to withhold funding from states and cities unless they criminalized homeless people camping on streets and ordered the attorney general to expand the use of involuntary civil commitment for adults experiencing homelessness.

Despite a large body of evidence showing their effectiveness at curbing crime while keeping people off the street, the order also required the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to end its support of “Housing First” policies that provide unhoused people with homes without the requirement of behavioral health treatment or sobriety.

Less than a week after Trump’s homelessness order, Utah’s Republican Gov. Spencer Cox, as well as the state Senate president and House speaker—both Republicans—sent a letter to the state’s Homeless Services Board, which was created last year following a legislative push by the Cicero Insitute—a far-right think tank that has proposed aggressive measures to criminalize homelessness and which has had major influence over Trump’s crackdown on the homeless during his second term.

In the letter, the leaders agreed with the Trump administration that they “do not support ‘Housing First’ policies that lack accountability.” They directed the Board to “accelerate progress on a transformative, services-based homeless campus that prioritizes recovery, treatment, and long-term outcomes, not just emergency shelter.”

As far back as 2023, Trump has proposed using “large parcels of inexpensive land” to set up “tent cities” or camps for homeless people, coupled with a pledge to use “every tool, lever, and authority” to clear encampments from city streets. On the podcast Invisible People, which focuses on homelessness in America, Eric Tars of the National Homelessness Law Center said Utah’s new facility could be a “pilot program” for that effort around the country.

“Their end goal is not just jail,” Tars said. “They want to put up more of these Alligator Alcatraz sprung structure type facilities,” referring to the ramshackle immigration detention facility constructed in a remote part of Florida’s Everglades earlier this year, where detainees have been cut off from access to their lawyers and are widely reported to suffer from inhumane treatment.

He noted that, under a proposal drafted by the chair of Utah’s Homeless Services Board, Randy Shumway, more than 300 of the beds in the facility are slated for involuntary commitment. Other homeless people will be sent there for substance abuse treatment “as an alternative to jail” and will “receive care in a supervised environment where entry and exit are not voluntary.” Shumway referred to the facility as an “accountability center.”

“An individual would be sanctioned to go there. It would not be voluntary, Shumway said during a presentation, according to the Standard-Examiner. ”They would be there for a period of probably 90 days with the opportunity to detox in order to get mental and behavioral health care, to get substance use disorder support, to get physical health care, and to be surrounded by a community that’s helping them in healing.“

According to the proposal, the beds not slated for civil commitment will include “work-conditioned housing.” Tars said that this is “the thing that scares me the most,” because it “means forced labor.”

He noted that other anti-homeless bills recently proposed in Republican states have a “forced labor element” to them. In Louisiana, a bill punishing outdoor camping introduced earlier this year proposes requiring those convicted to serve up to two years of “hard labor.” Another bill introduced in West Virginia would have required those arrested for camping to take part in “facility upkeep” and other forms of vocational training.

Tars said that at the Utah facility, “even though theoretically you could come and go, they’re going to be actively enforcing anti-camping, anti-loitering, all these other laws... if you step foot off the campus,” which he noted is over seven miles away from downtown Salt Lake City and “in the middle of nowhere,” with “no public transportation.”

State officials have said they expect the facility to cost $75 million to construct, plus more than $30 million per year for ongoing operations. Bill Tibbitts, deputy executive director of Crossroads Urban Center, a low-income advocacy nonprofit based in Utah, has said that for a facility to treat such a large number of people adequately, the cost “will be much higher than $75 million.”

Tibbitts also warned that the construction of a homeless shelter in such close proximity to a facility for involuntary commitment would create an atmosphere of fear that would deter homeless people from seeking help.

“A 300-400-bed mental and behavioral health facility that people are not allowed to leave is not a shelter but an incarceration option,” Tibbitts wrote in an email to the Utah News Dispatch. “Having such a facility colocated with a shelter would probably lead to a sense that if you do not follow the rules in one facility, you could be moved into the other.”

Although the Trump administration has portrayed homelessness as primarily the result of addiction or mental illness, Tibbitts noted that “the majority of the people who visit a shelter are not chronically homeless—they just need a place to stay following a short-term period of financial hardship.”

“A senior citizen who had their rent increased beyond what they could afford,” he said, “is not going to want to go to a quasi-correctional facility to get help finding a place to live that they can afford.”

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With these race remarks, Trump and the GOP are raising a frightening specter from history

Judy Helgen,

 Minnesota Reformer
October 24, 2025 2:08PM ET


Flags fly near a banner depicting Donald Trump during a "No Kings" protest. REUTERS/Kylie Cooper

It’s here and it’s happening. The recent revelations about Republicans “joking” about an affinity for Nazism should wake us up to the reality of the moment. When President Donald Trump says immigrants have “bad genes” and are “poisoning the blood of our country,” he has raised the specter of eugenics that thrived in our country and of course in Germany during the 1930s. There’s a direct line from this thinking to the Holocaust.

We need look no further than Minnesota for insight into this ugly history. During the early 20th century, Minnesota and many other states passed eugenics laws to support so-called racial purification. Laws in 31 states allowed the sterilization of mentally disabled and “feeble-minded” people, epileptics and more. Minnesota passed a sterilization law in 1925, and more than 2,000 people — mostly women — were sterilized. In California around 20,000 were sterilized from 1917 to 1952.

Through the 1930s, American scientists at the prestigious Cold Spring Harbor Lab in New York promoted eugenics and maintained a Eugenics Record Office. David Starr Jordan, who wrote early major works on the fishes of North America and was president of Stanford University, was a white supremacist and supported forced sterilization programs aimed at poor Black, Indigenous and Hispanic women as well as the mentally disabled.

We know that Charles Lindbergh, the Minnesotan famous for his solo flight across the Atlantic, was a eugenicist and talked of preserving the inheritance of European blood and guarding against its dilution by foreign races. He praised Hitler. Margaret Sanger, who was the first president of Planned Parenthood, was a eugenicist.

The Minnesota Eugenics Society was founded in 1923 by Charles F. Dight, who served as president until his death in 1938. He actively promoted reproduction of the “fit” and race betterment (the State Fair held “fit family” contests).

During the 1930s, Dight communicated with Hitler, praising him for his plan to “stamp out mental inferiority among the German people” and “advance the eugenics movement.” If carried out effectively, Dight wrote, “it will make him the leader of the greatest national movement for human betterment the world has ever seen.”

Our country has had a history of restricting immigrants, e.g. the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and the 1924 Johnson-Reed Act that limited immigrants from eastern and southern Europe and Japan.

Trump castigates immigrants as criminals and insane, even though immigrants have lower crime rates than that of American citizens.

How could the President release 1,500 convicted insurrectionists yet push to deport immigrants? He’s likely a true believer in the nonsensical race science that was predominant a century ago.

Episcopal Bishop Mariann Budde, who spent a quarter-century in Minnesota, told Trump at the now famous prayer service early this year, “The people who pick our crops and clean our office buildings; who labor in poultry plants and meatpacking plants; who wash the dishes after we eat in restaurants and work the night shifts in hospitals — they may not be citizens or have the proper documentation. But the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals. They pay taxes and are good neighbors.”

Aren’t we all the immigrants or the descendants of immigrants? And don’t we all have defects?

Let us not forget: We are called to protect the vulnerable, to treat everyone as equals, to “do unto others as we would have them do unto us.”

Judy Helgen, PhD, is a retired research scientist with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. She lives in Falcon Heights.

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Trump Ripped for ‘Absurdly Low’ and ‘Racist’ Refugee Cap Prioritizing White South Africans

“Let’s call this what it is—white supremacy disguised as refugee policy,” said the head of the Haitian Bridge Alliance.

US President Donald Trump displays an article about Afrikaners as he meets with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on May 21, 2025.
(Photo by Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)

Jessica Corbett
Oct 30, 2025
COMMON DREAMS


After months of reporting, President Donald Trump’s administration on Thursday officially announced that it is restricting the number of refugees for this fiscal year to 7,500, with most spots going to white South Africans—a policy swiftly denounced by human rights advocates and Democrats in Congress.

“This decision doesn’t just lower the refugee admissions ceiling. It lowers our moral standing,” said Krish O’Mara Vignarajah, president and CEO of Global Refuge. “For more than four decades, the US refugee program has been a lifeline for families fleeing war, persecution, and repression. At a time of crisis in countries ranging from Afghanistan to Venezuela to Sudan and beyond, concentrating the vast majority of admissions on one group undermines the program’s purpose as well as its credibility.”

The Trump administration’s notice in the Federal Register doesn’t mention any groups besides Afrikaners, white descendants of Europeans who subjected South Africa’s majority Black population to a system of apartheid for decades. Multiple rich Trump backers—including Tesla CEO Elon Musk, venture capitalist David Sacks, and Palantir founder Peter Thiel—spent time in the country during those years.

The 7,500 cap, initially reported earlier this month, is a significant drop from both the 40,000 limit that was previously reported as under consideration by the Republican administration, and the more than 100,000 allowed under former Democratic President Joe Biden.

Four congressional Democrats who serve as ranking members on related committees—Reps. Jamie Raskin (Md.) and Pramila Jayapal (Wash.), along with Sens. Dick Durbin (Ill.) and Alex Padilla (Calif.)—issued a joint statement condemning the new cap, which they noted is “an astonishing 94% cut over last year and the lowest level in our nation’s history.”

“To add insult to injury, the administration is skipping over the tens of thousands of refugees who have been waiting in line for years in dire circumstances to come to the United States, and it is instead prioritizing a single privileged racial group—white South African Afrikaners—for these severely limited slots,” they said. “This bizarre presidential determination is not only morally indefensible, it is illegal and invalid.”

The four lawmakers continued:
The administration has brazenly ignored the statutory requirement to consult with the House and Senate Judiciary Committees before setting the annual refugee admissions ceiling. That process exists to ensure that decisions of such great consequence reflect our nation’s values, our humanitarian commitments, and the rule of law, not the racial preferences or political whims of any one president.

The reason for this evasion is evident: The administration knows it cannot defend its egregious policy before Congress or the American people. While nearly 130,000 vetted, approved refugees—men, women, and children fleeing persecution and violence—wait in limbo after being promised a chance at safety, Donald Trump is looking to turn refugee admissions into another political giveaway for his pet projects and infatuations.

We reject this announcement as both unlawful and contrary to America’s longstanding commitment to offer refuge to the persecuted. To twist our refugee policy into a partisan straightjacket is to betray both our legal obligations and our moral identity as a nation.

“Let’s call this what it is—white supremacy disguised as refugee policy,” declared Guerline Jozef, executive director of Haitian Bridge Alliance. “At a time when Black refugees from Haiti, Sudan, the Congo, and Cameroon are drowning at sea, languishing in detention, or being deported to death, the US government has decided to open its arms to those who already enjoy global privilege. This is not just immoral—it’s anti-Blackness codified into federal policy.”

This week alone, Hurricane Melissa killed more than 20 people in Haiti, and health officials said that the Rapid Support Forces, which are fighting against Sudan’s government, killed over 1,500 people—including more than 460 systematically slaughtered at a maternity hospital—in the city of el-Fasher.

“We reject the idea that whiteness equates to worthiness,” Jozef said of Trump’s new refugee plan. She also took aim at the president’s broader anti-immigrant policy, which has included deporting hundreds of people to El Salvador’s so-called Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT).

“From Del Rio to Lampedusa, Black migrants and other immigrants of color have been criminalized, beaten, caged, and disappeared in CECOT camp in El Salvador—while their humanity is debated like a policy variable,” she said. “This moment demands our humanity, our resistance, not silence.”



Amy Fischer, Amnesty International USA’s director for refugee and migrant rights, also tied Thursday’s announcement to the broader agenda of the president—who, during his first term, faced global condemnation for policies including the forcible separation of families at the southern border.

“Setting this cap at such an absurdly low number and prioritizing white Afrikaners is a racist move that will turn the US’s back on tens of thousands of people around the world who are fleeing persecution, violence, and human rights abuses,” said Fischer. “Refugees have a human right to protection, and the international community—including the United States—has a responsibility to uphold that right.”

“This announcement is yet another attack by the Trump administration on refugees and immigrants, showing disregard for international systems meant to protect human rights,” she added. “The Trump administration must reverse course and ensure a fair, humane, and rights-based refugee admissions determination.”

The announcement came just days after Trump’s nominee to be ambassador to South Africa, far-right media critic Brent Bozell, faced intense criticism for refusing to say whether he would support or oppose repealing laws allowing Black Americans to vote during his Senate confirmation hearing.