South Africa’s Daily Maverick reports that, three months after leaving their country for the United States, many of Trump’s Afrikaner ‘refugees’ are regretting their decision.
“In the US, I had to face this painful truth: I don’t know where I fit in anymore. Can I work for someone else? Will I ever feel ‘capable’ again in this new place?” writes an anonymous commenter on the X account @amerikaners2025.
According to The Daily Maverick, @amerikaners2025 has become the closest thing to an official mouthpiece for the white South Africans that moved to the United States per invitation of the Trump Administration as “refugees”.
One anonymous commenter, identified as a mother of five in her 50s, told on @amerikaners2025 that back in South Africa she had owned businesses in sales and real estate. Now, in the United States, she claimed that she was rejected from entry-level jobs for being “overqualified” and could only find employment taking care of the elderly.
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AP News informed back in June that a total of 68 Afrikaners arrived in the United States under the refugee program scheme established by US President Donald Trump.
The Daily Maverick cites the story of Charl Kleinhaus, a South African farmer and one of Trump’s Afrikaner “refugees” that was interviewed by YouTuber Chris Wyatt.
“I thought I’d go to Texas, Montana, somewhere like that where there’s farming, but it didn’t happen like that,” Kleinhaus says.
He was sent to Buffalo, New York, and after eight days he abandoned. “The biggest challenge is here you work, hey,” Kleinhaus told Wyatt.
“There’s no kitchen lady you call to sweep the house, or clean the house, or stuff like that. You do the work yourself.”
