America’s Racist Immigration Policy

If you’ve been awake this past week, you’ve no doubt seen the news about President Trump’s decision to welcome white South Africans to the USA, while arresting Black and brown skinned immigrants already in the USA, preparing them for mass deportations to international holding centers that exist outside of US law.

 

America’s immigration system is not just broken; it is riddled with contradictions and racial double standards that erode the nation’s claim to fairness and justice. In 2025, these inconsistencies have become impossible to ignore. While white South African Afrikaners, positioned as “persecuted farmers” are quietly welcomed into the U.S. as sympathetic refugees, Black and brown immigrants from Haiti, Guatemala, and beyond continue to be stopped at our national borders and subjected to aggressive mass deportations from within.

 

Even more disturbing, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents now patrol American streets, trains, schools and even our courthouses, targeting undocumented immigrants in routine traffic stops, job sites, and neighborhoods. These operations have become so indiscriminate that an American citizen, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran, was wrongfully deported to El Salvador. Despite a federal court order mandating his return, Garcia remains stranded abroad as of 2025. Quite simply, the Trump administration refuses to obey a court order to return this US citizen.

His case is not an isolated anomaly, but a chilling illustration of a system that prioritizes appearances over due process, especially when the victims are not white. Moreover, the Executive Branch is now directly ignoring the binding decisions of the Judicial Branch. The rule of law that has defined our history, is being ignored and violated.

 

Meanwhile, Afrikaner families are now arriving in small but noticeable numbers, aided by private organizations and sympathetic lawmakers who frame them as victims of “reverse apartheid.” These white South Africans receive expedited attention and support rarely offered to Black asylum seekers escaping equally, if not more, severe conditions of violence, poverty, and state collapse in nations like Haiti.

Moreover, the U.S. asylum system remains intentionally impenetrable for most applicants. Wait times can stretch for years, legal representation is expensive and scarce, and acceptance rates for Black and brown asylum seekers remain abysmally low. For many, the only “welcome” they receive is detention, family separation, and deportation.

 

America cannot claim to be a nation of laws or a beacon of freedom while its immigration policies are driven by racial and political favoritism. What the United States needs is a coherent, consistent, and transparent immigration policy that treats all applicants equally, regardless of skin color, nationality, or perceived political utility. Anything less is not policy; it is prejudice dressed in the clothes of patriotism.

 

What does it say about us as a people when the color of your skin determines the welcome you receive at America’s gates? This is not the promise our ancestors fought for, nor the legacy we wish to leave our children. It is a slow unraveling of the values that once made America a beacon for the world’s weary and oppressed. If we still believe in that promise, we must rise above our fears and prejudices and choose justice, fairness, and compassion over division and deceit. The mirror is in front of us.