An Episcopal charity whose stock and trade is in relocating refugees who come to the United States is reportedly refusing to assist several dozen white South African families who were flown into the U.S. by the Trump administration to escape racial persecution in their home country.
Episcopal Migration Ministries’ Presiding Bishop Sean Rowe said Monday that the charity will be ending its four-decades-long relationship with the federal government after President Donald Trump’s State Department announced it would be flying 23 white Afrikaner families into the United States to escape race-based discrimination. The group, which included many young children, all waving American flags, landed at Dulles International Airport Monday night after being granted refugee status in the U.S. on account of white farmers being targeted, robbed of land, and in some cases even brutally murdered by Africans angry that white descendants of European settlers still own land in South Africa.
But apparently, white people being forced out of their homes and murdered because of the color of their skin isn’t a good enough reason for the Episcopal Church - one of about 10 groups that work with the federal government to resettle refugees, and which is all to happy to assist illegal aliens who enter the U.S. in violation of our immigration law - to want to help these farmers start a new life here in America.
“It has been painful to watch one group of refugees, selected in a highly unusual manner, receive preferential treatment over many others who have been waiting in refugee camps or dangerous conditions for years,” Rowe said. “I am saddened and ashamed that many of the refugees who are being denied entrance to the United States are brave people who worked alongside our military in Iraq and Afghanistan and now face danger at home because of their service to our country.”
Rowe added that in addition to refusing to coordinate aid for these families, “We have determined that, by the end of the federal fiscal year, we will conclude our refugee resettlement grant agreements with the U.S. federal government.”