In a press gaggle, Stephen Miller discussed a Trump Administration plan to admit white Afrikaners from South Africa as refugees.
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00:00American worker. Yes.
00:01With regards to the refugees that are being brought back from South Africa.
00:05That's a really exciting news story, isn't it?
00:08The rationale behind it when the refugees have not been taken back from other countries, why is the U.S. able to be used to South Africa?
00:15Well, because what's happening in South Africa fits the textbook definition of why the refugee program was created.
00:20This is persecution based on a protected characteristic, in this case, race.
00:26So this is race-based persecution.
00:27The refugee program is not intended as a solution for global poverty.
00:32And historically, it has been used that way.
00:34Wherever there's global poverty or wherever there's dysfunctional governments, then the U.S. refugee program comes in, swoops people up, relocates them to America.
00:44And you have multi-generational problems.
00:46Even into the second and third generation, you have endemic poverty, you have crime issues, you have integration issues.
00:52The U.S. refugee program in America has been a catastrophic failure.
00:56I mean, if you look, for example, at the Twin Cities area, I mean, just in terms of markers of educational outcomes, in terms of public safety, in terms of welfare use, I mean, it's been a complete public policy failure.
01:13And so this is an example of the president returning the refugee program to what it was intended to be used as.
01:18But what evidence do you have?
01:19Hold on.
01:20Over there, thanks.
01:21What specific evidence do you have that those?
01:22So let me just take this one first.
01:24What specific evidence do you have that those South Africans have that those South Africans have been persecuted?
01:30Well, but it's state policy.
01:33There's land expropriation.
01:34There's a whole series of government laws and policies that specifically target white farmers and the white population in South Africa.
01:41That's well documented on video.
01:42And, of course, you even see government leaders chanting racial epithets and espousing racial violence.
01:48So it's all very well documented.
01:49What is the status of their litigation on the tariff issues and all the issues?
01:57I don't have an update on that.
01:58Sorry.
01:58Yes.
02:00Do you have, of the South African refugees, how many are coming and when will they arrive?
02:06Well, we just have the first flight is scheduled, I believe, for early next week.
02:10But that's just.
02:12Well, I don't have an exact update for you on that yet.
02:16I don't want to confirm any news reports.
02:17But that's just the beginning of what's going to be a much larger scale relocation effort.
02:24And so those numbers are going to increase, obviously, as time goes on.
02:27It takes a little while to set up the systems and processes and procedures to begin a new refugee flow.
02:32But we expect that the pace will increase.
02:36It'll increase at a healthy pace as time goes on.
02:38Yes, back there.
02:39Do you have a number for coming on the first flight?
02:40Not right now.
02:41Yep.
02:41Back there.