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The Trump administration is advancing plans to resettle an additional 10,000 white South Africans in the United States as refugees. Under President Trump’s proposal, which was submitted to Congress on Monday, the U.S. would lift its record-low refugee admissions figure from 7,500 to 17,500, with the additional openings reserved for Afrikaners. This comes as the administration continues to block the entry of refugees from other countries. The U.S. has resettled just over 6,000 refugees between October and April — all except three were from South Africa.

The GOP lawmaker’s request came in a fundraising email with the subject line: ‘Alaska needs you!!’

Leading neoconservative commentator and staunch defender of Israel, John Podhoretz, has turned the defeat of US Representative Thomas Massie into a warning to every candidate who challenges the pro-Israel lobby, declaring that “Jewish money” should be used openly to force such politicians through a political “buzzsaw”.