[danielrmay]

> Do people migrate to "contribute their skills" to a foreign country, or to improve their lives?

I think the two are often linked.

> I don't know if that's necessary to be said, because who thinks that?

Effective January 21, 2026, the Department of State paused all visa issuance to immigrant visa applicants who are nationals of seventy-five countries. The overwhelming majority of the affected countries are not predominantly white and are not European.

[blindriver]

You do realize that the overwhelming majority of countries in the world at not predominantly white, do you?

[paulryanrogers]

When Trump explicitly invites only white people from South Africa, a majority black nation, I think the intention is pretty clear.

[thrownthatway]

Are you trying to claim that the white people in Zimbabwe and South Africa are responsible for wrecking those countries?

White people are, and have been, target and killed in those place.

[paulryanrogers]

Apparently there is no white genocide going on in SA [0], and in farm attacks the victims are quite often black.

Perhaps you can enlighten me on the Zimbabwe situation?

That said, I think the centuries of colonialism and slavery--of which whites in the US greatly benefited--makes this exclusion of immigrants from predominantly brown nations disgusting. Pulling up the ladder, even from some of those who built it for you.

[0] https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-03-19-we-must-b...

[thrownthatway]

I never claimed ”genocide”.

I have friends from South Africa and Zimbabwe. They’re all lying to me?

“Kill the Borer! Kill the farmer!”

Would that make you want hang around and find out?

[paulryanrogers]

If there is no genocide then why special treatment for crime victims on such a small scale?

Plenty of brown people in the 75 paused countries face serious threats and crime too.

Trump asks why so few immigrants from northern European countries. I'm not sure how folks can miss the pattern.