This post is by Ben Harville, an immigration attorney in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His practice includes family-based immigration, employment-based immigration, asylum, humanitarian relief, citizenship, and removal/deportation defense. He is also an adjunct professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School, where he teaches Immigration Law.
Last year, Naomi Seibt became the first person to request asylum under the Trump Administration’s new refugee priorities, which prioritize applications made by white South Africans and right-wing Europeans. Ms. Seibt gained international prominence in 2019 as the “anti-Greta Thunberg”: a young, Northern European woman who was outspokenly skeptical of man-made climate change. In recent years, she has expanded her focus to include critiques of the German government’s approach to immigration, gender, and other culture-war issues (a typical recent post: “Muslims in Germany will outbreed white Christians. If you don’t think that is horrifying, you are not worthy of the free West that our ancestors fought for”). She is also an outspoken supporter of the right-wing Alternative for Germany party (AFD). Because of these political beliefs, she claims, the German government will persecute her if she returns to her homeland.