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South African Whites Seek Asylum in the U.S.

March 15, 2012

An asylum claim by a white Afrikaner farming family from South Africa has sparked a debate about whether their claim is based on a real fear of persecution or is “the result of paranoid (and racist) whites wanting to leave because they want no part in a black-governed South Africa.” The family’s claim seems to … Read more

By Jason Dzubow
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