What are we talking about, exactly? "When you have quality seeds, you can put them in foreign soil and they will blossom," Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau said of the Afrikaner South Africans being admitted as refugees to the United States. "They will bloom. We are excited to welcome you here to our country, where we think you will bloom." (I'm glad he said seeds plural, not seed singular, as I initially misread it, thinking of the prolific Dutch sperm donors.)
Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff, said the situation with the Afrikaners was "the textbook definition of why the refugee program was created."
"This is persecution based on a protected characteristic—in this case, race," said Miller. "This is race-based persecution."
