White Power Gets a Visa: Trump Resettles Apartheid’s Orphans

How U.S. refugee policy became a racial logistics operation to reinforce settler rule under technofascist stabilization

By Prince Kapone | Weaponized Information | May 12, 2025

I. Settler Mercy for Empire’s Children

There’s no byline on the CBS News article about white South Africans resettling in the U.S.—and that’s fitting. It reads less like journalism and more like a press release from the Department of Racial Triaging. CBS, of course, is no innocent observer. As a core organ of the imperialist media apparatus, it has long served as the public relations wing of empire—from soft-selling coups in Latin America to laundering war crimes in Gaza as “self-defense.” Owned by Paramount Global and fed by the advertising dollars of defense contractors, tech monopolies, and Big Pharma, CBS doesn’t produce news; it manufactures the worldview of empire. Its editors aren’t chosen for their capacity to investigate power, but for their obedience to it. Trained in elite institutions, marinated in Cold War orthodoxy, and vetted for political reliability, they churn out stories like this one—where history is amputated, whiteness is victimized, and power is draped in the language of humanitarian concern.

Figures like immigration attorney John Bingham, right-wing media peddlers like Tucker Carlson, and Afrikaner pressure groups like AfriForum appear throughout the discourse, playing their parts in this ideological stage play—legal technician, cultural amplifier, and racial lobbyist. Together, they manufacture the image of the persecuted settler in need of imperial rescue.

The narrative is a classic inversion. We’re told that white South Africans—Afrikaners—are “fleeing racial violence,” that they are the targets of discrimination, and that the United States, land of liberty and apparently short historical memory, has opened its doors. But nowhere in the article is there a single mention of apartheid—not the land theft, not the forced removals, not the massacres, not the centuries of racial dictatorship. There’s no word about who held the whip hand in South Africa for 300 years, or how deeply the modern apartheid state was armed, trained, and protected by the U.S. and its NATO allies. No, all of that vanishes in the fog of “refugee resettlement.” We are simply to believe that these are harmless, God-fearing victims, cast out by some nameless chaos in the African wilds, now seeking safety and solace under the Trump regime.

Let’s be clear: this isn’t asylum—it’s settler replenishment. It’s demographic reinforcements for the empire’s internal front. When colonized people from Honduras or Somalia try to escape U.S.-engineered coups or climate collapse, they’re locked in ICE cages, deported, or drowned at sea. But when the grandchildren of apartheid generals come knocking, they’re given a warm welcome in Texas, Florida, or Idaho—states that look increasingly like training grounds for settler militias. It’s not just racial hypocrisy. It’s racial strategy. The Trump regime isn’t “welcoming the persecuted”—it’s importing ideological allies, cultural enforcers, and whiteness with a work ethic.

And the article’s language? Sterilized and saccharine. “Safety.” “Opportunity.” “Integration.” These words are not neutral—they’re camouflage. They dress up a racial project in the robes of humanitarianism. It’s not journalism. It’s cognitive warfare. By framing these settlers as victims rather than agents of colonial history, CBS performs a vanishing act—disappearing the blood-soaked legacy of apartheid while laundering a fresh coat of innocence onto its inheritors. The message is clear: when Black and Indigenous people fight for land, it’s terrorism. When white settlers relocate to consolidate their power, it’s resettlement.

But here’s the dialectical reversal: the facts they offer—white South Africans being fast-tracked for visas under Trump, citing “racial persecution,” and settling in red states—are actually admissions. They confirm what we’ve long argued: that U.S. immigration policy is not about compassion, it’s about control. It’s a racialized logistics operation designed to reinforce settler rule while fortifying the technofascist regime at home. They didn’t mean to tell the truth—but buried inside their propaganda is a confession: the empire is scared, the demographics are shifting, and it’s time to call in backup.

II. When Refuge Becomes Recruitment: The Material Logic Behind the Narrative

Strip away the soft-focus camera and sympathetic soundtrack, and what remains in the CBS article is a set of objective facts that, when recontextualized, expose the raw structure of a settler-colonial state undergoing demographic anxiety. White South Africans—mostly Afrikaners—are applying for and receiving asylum in the United States under the claim of “racial persecution.” They cite farm attacks, declining social status, and fear of crime as justification. They are overwhelmingly settling in conservative U.S. states aligned with Trump’s agenda—places where Confederate flags are still in rotation and Black political power is treated like a foreign invasion. These facts, presented as background noise in the article, are the real headline: the U.S. settler state is airlifting ideological reinforcements into its domestic core under the guise of refugee policy.

What CBS omits is more important than what it includes. There’s no mention of the actual asylum landscape in the United States—where children fleeing death squads in El Salvador are put on trial without lawyers, where Haitian migrants are whipped on horseback at the border, where Palestinian families fleeing genocide are told to wait in line behind the friends of apartheid. There’s no data on visa approvals by race or nationality, no comparative analysis of how long Black and Brown applicants wait, or whether they’re ever approved at all. This silence is structural—it protects the architecture of hyper-imperialism by erasing the racialized tiers of mobility that underpin it. In the empire, whiteness moves freely; Blackness gets the baton, the cage, or the sea.

Contextually, this so-called “refugee wave” from South Africa is happening in tandem with multiple crises: the collapse of U.S. legitimacy on the global stage, the demographic browning of the U.S. working class, and the steady erosion of white nationalist hegemony inside the core. Trump 2.0’s response has been to tighten borders—selectively. Deportation is ramped up for Mexicans, Central Americans, Haitians, and Africans. But the door swings open for Cubans, Venezuelans, Ukrainians, and now Afrikaners. This is not security—it’s selection. A sorting mechanism embedded within immigration law that retools old Cold War asylum logic for a new phase of technofascist stabilization.

And what are these Afrikaners really fleeing? It’s not anti-white pogroms or racial genocide. They are fleeing a post-apartheid society where the monopoly on state power is no longer exclusively theirs, where Black political leadership has slowly begun reclaiming a sliver of stolen wealth. What they call “violence” is in many cases the predictable aftershock of a society still built on land dispossession and racial capitalism—conditions they materially benefited from. And here lies the deepest irony: the so-called “refugees” are not escaping the ruins of empire; they are its children, sent abroad to reinforce the center.

This process has deep historical roots. The United States has always made room for settlers when it suits the colonial project. After World War II, Nazi collaborators from Eastern Europe were granted asylum to serve as anti-communist fodder. During the Cold War, white Cubans were welcomed while Black Haitians were turned away. In the wake of the Vietnam War, thousands of Hmong fighters—recruited by the CIA—were resettled to prop up anti-communist sentiment in rural America. And now, amid the twilight of American empire, Afrikaners are being ushered in—not because they are stateless, but because they still carry the cultural software of settler discipline. Their resettlement is not about sanctuary. It is about strategic domestication of a settler identity under threat.

In this light, asylum becomes something else entirely: not a shield for the persecuted, but a weapon for the powerful. It is deployed not to repair the world’s wounds, but to preserve empire’s interior order. That’s the deeper context CBS won’t give you. But we will.

III. Not Asylum—Logistics: Reframing Refugee Policy as Settler Maintenance

Let’s call this what it is: not refuge, but racial logistics. The migration of white South Africans into the U.S. under Trump isn’t a side story—it’s a case study in the technofascist recalibration of settler rule. When empire starts to wobble, it doesn’t retreat—it reorganizes. And in the domestic core of U.S. settler capitalism, that means tightening the white demographic grip through targeted resettlement, ideological realignment, and racial recruitment. Afrikaners are not being rescued. They’re being redeployed. They arrive not as victims of a failed state, but as agents of a global settler class seeking new ground from which to defend its declining supremacy.

This is why the framing of “racial persecution” is so potent for empire. It inverts the narrative—transforming the very architects of apartheid into its supposed survivors. It activates the moral machinery of the imperial state to validate white fear while criminalizing Black existence. And it performs a double function: at home, it reassures the settler base that whiteness will be preserved; abroad, it signals to other embattled colonizers that the U.S. remains a haven for racial capital and counterrevolutionary refuge. It’s Ellis Island for empire’s orphans.

Meanwhile, the real refugees—those fleeing CIA-backed juntas, World Bank hunger, and drone war—are corralled, criminalized, and cast as threats to national security. The difference is not legal—it’s racial, historical, and ideological. The Afrikaner settler, even when displaced, remains a geopolitical asset. The Honduran farmworker fleeing narco-death squads trained by U.S. Marines is not. In the imperial worldview, who is worthy of sanctuary is determined not by danger, but by usefulness to capital and the continuity of settler power.

We must therefore reframe U.S. refugee policy as a kind of racial inventory management system—an internal process of demographic engineering that services the broader project of technofascist stabilization. Afrikaners arriving in conservative U.S. states are not just seeking safety—they’re being absorbed into the ideological bloodstream of MAGA America, where their cultural memory of apartheid, their Christian fundamentalism, and their anti-Black paranoia find common ground with militia movements, police unions, and white evangelical blocs. This is not some fluke of global migration. It is the domestic face of hyper-imperial logistics. It is how empire retools itself when the old arrangements begin to crack.

And so the real narrative—the one we must tell—is not about persecuted whites but about a system scrambling to preserve itself. A system that opens the gates for those who look like empire and slams them shut for those who have survived it. A system that cannot imagine liberation, only relocation. A system where the only permissible refugee is the one who helps repress the others. In that story, the Afrikaner is not a stranger to empire. He is its advance scout.

IV. From the Border to the Township: Organizing Against Settler Replenishment

We do not write this as passive observers. We write from within the belly of empire, where these policies land like bricks through windows in our communities. The resettlement of white South Africans under the false banner of “refuge” is not a distant policy—it is a domestic maneuver in a broader counterinsurgency. It is a settler-colonial recruitment drive, wrapped in humanitarian language, meant to stabilize a faltering racial order inside the imperial core. And we must treat it as such: not a curiosity, but a battlefront.

Our line is clear: we stand in full ideological and material unity with the colonized, racialized, and working-class migrants criminalized by this system. The Haitian deportee. The Palestinian refugee. The Honduran campesino. The Somali child in an ICE cage. These are not security threats—they are survivors of hyper-imperialism. Their lives are not inconvenient—they are indictments. The struggle for open borders is not a liberal slogan—it is a revolutionary position against the logistical machinery of empire that selects who lives, who moves, and who is made to disappear.

Material solidarity is not a metaphor. It looks like joining campaigns to shut down ICE detention centers and mapping new arrivals not to welcome them into whiteness, but to expose their role in settler consolidation. It looks like organizing teach-ins that link South African apartheid to U.S. settler colonialism—and calling out the imported foot soldiers of that legacy. It looks like building alliances with Black and Indigenous-led landback and reparation struggles—understanding that every Afrikaner resettled in Texas represents another obstacle to sovereignty in Mississippi, in the Bayou, in the Bronx.

There is already movement. Organizations like No More Deaths, Mijente, and the African People’s Socialist Party have long identified the colonial contradiction within U.S. immigration and border policy. We must now deepen those lines of unity. Expose the settler dimension of the Trump regime’s refugee strategy. Sharpen the ideological blade. Disrupt the pipelines of settler reinforcement. Name what others are too cowardly to say: this is not about mercy. It is about war. A war waged through visas, through silence, through Christian charity and executive orders signed in blood.

And so we end not with a summary—but with a directive: organize. Educate. Agitate. Expose. Disrupt. From the occupied territories of Turtle Island to the burning borderlands of Gaza, to the landless squatter camps outside Johannesburg—this is one settler system. And if they are flying in the colonists, then we must be building the revolution.