I am writing this column on an Amtrak train to Newark. My destination is immigration court, where I will try and obtain asylum for an abused woman from Central America. So you can imagine that I have more than a little interest in the topic of refugees.

That’s why my antenna went up when I heard about the small group of Afrikaners from South Africa who, according to trustworthy reports, have been given expedited processing as … refugees.

The mainstream media, much of which is Trump-phobic, has made it a point of mentioning that the Afrikaners are white, which is self-evident to anyone who understands South African history. They are the descendants of Dutch settlers who instituted the evil policy of Apartheid, which enslaved generations of non-white Africans.

There is nothing that can ever justify a regime that in many ways mirrored the race laws of Weimar Republic Germany.

It is possible that the Afrikaners who were given preferred status by our government were alive during Apartheid and even contributed to it, since the regime only ended 30 years ago.

It is even probable that the majority of the refugees benefited from the bloody and horrific crimes of........

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