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Not all immigrants are the same.

Posted on 4/23/26 at 12:32 pm
Posted by Ailsa
Member since May 2020
8121 posts
Posted on 4/23/26 at 12:32 pm
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They can’t believe that, back in South Africa, we wake up every single day and keep going, pushing forward through the fear, the endless challenges, and the raw, demonic hatred that can explode toward us at any moment.

Yet we do.
We still go to work.
We still drop our children at school with heavy hearts but determined hands.
We still live, just not the way others do.

We’ve carved out a brutal new normal, forged in the fire of desensitization. We’ve learned to find beauty and meaning in the cracks of a broken reality, squeezing every drop of life from our fractured surroundings. We laugh, we love, we build, we endure, because we have no other choice.

And when we finally speak about our new lives in America, we do so with tears in our eyes and a fierce, trembling gratitude in our voices. Because only once you’ve escaped this nightmare do you truly understand just how dark, how suffocating, how soul-crushing it really was.

We survived it.
And we will never, ever take our freedom for granted again.
This post was edited on 4/23/26 at 12:33 pm
Posted by Ailsa
Member since May 2020
8121 posts
Posted on 4/23/26 at 12:34 pm to
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My heart is still pounding a mile a minute as I write this through tears of gratitude that keep escaping. Yesterday, after eight long, soul-crushing years of separation, heartbreak, and sleepless nights, I stood at a US airport gate and finally wrapped my arms around my son. He stepped off that plane from South Africa, and in that single moment, every prayer I whispered in the dark, every tear I choked back, every fear that I might never see him again; it all shattered into pure, overwhelming joy.

I cannot put into words what it felt like to see his plane come in. Eight years. Eight years of birthdays missed, of phone calls cut short by bad connections and broken hearts, of wondering if the next update would be the one that crushed me forever. The distance was a knife that never stopped twisting. But yesterday, America, YOUR America, brought my boy home.

President Trump, to you and your Administration I owe a debt I can never repay. Thank you for believing that families belong together. Thank you for fighting to keep the refugee program alive as a true lifeline for those who have nowhere else to turn. Thank you for refusing to let bureaucracy and politics stand between a parent and a child who had waited far too long. Your leadership turned a hopeless nightmare into the most beautiful reunion of my life.

And to the American people; every single one of you who voted, who prayed, who stood firm, I thank you from the bottom of my soul. You didn’t just bring my son home; you reminded me that this nation still believes in second chances, in mercy, and in the unbreakable power of family. Your compassion gave us back our future.

Now hear me clearly. We are not here to take. We are here to stand. A part of my family came home to the greatest country on earth, and we will fight side by side with you against every force, foreign or domestic, that seeks to destroy her. We will fight for her borders, her values, her freedom, and her future. We will fight for the American Dream that just saved our family. We will never forget what you did for us, and we will spend every day proving that we are worthy of the grace you showed us.

America, you didn’t just reunite one family, you reignited a fire in our hearts that will burn for this country until our last breath.

With eternal gratitude, unbreakable loyalty, and tears of joy still finding its way down my cheeks,

Us, the Amerikaners
Posted by BozemanTiger
Member since Jul 2020
4717 posts
Posted on 4/23/26 at 12:34 pm to
Best lesson in " cultcha' " of the 21st century.
Posted by prouddawg
Member since Sep 2024
9096 posts
Posted on 4/23/26 at 12:36 pm to
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South Africa


Be nice if we had an exchange program.
This post was edited on 4/23/26 at 12:47 pm
Posted by Chuck Barris
Member since Apr 2013
3121 posts
Posted on 4/23/26 at 12:36 pm to
Boy, whoever's running that account from Bangladesh is a good writer.
Posted by AlwysATgr
Member since Apr 2008
20909 posts
Posted on 4/23/26 at 12:42 pm to
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Chuck Barris
Boy, whoever's running that account from Bangladesh is a good writer.


It said "thank you," something never heard from the entitled welfare recipient.
Posted by Funky Tide 8
Bayou Chico
Member since Feb 2009
56823 posts
Posted on 4/23/26 at 12:44 pm to
One of my new drivers is from South Africa. Super nice guy, very polite, doesn't bitch, appreciates the work that we give him.

He told me the other day that he was in the cattle business in S.A., but was driven out because he's white. Went up to Uganda to teach the people how to run a cattle operation, but then was ran out of there too for being white. He said a 12 million shilling hit was placed on his head, and he had to flee in the cover of night, and chose to come to the U.S.
Posted by dblwall
Member since Jul 2017
1606 posts
Posted on 4/23/26 at 2:21 pm to


Posted by Rebel
Graceland
Member since Jan 2005
143717 posts
Posted on 4/23/26 at 2:27 pm to
I have a South African working at my company.

I wish I had another 200 just like him. Guy never has a cross word.
Posted by Demonbengal
Ruston
Member since May 2015
5543 posts
Posted on 4/23/26 at 3:50 pm to
A lot of SA whites are in farming now in east Arkansas. The guys I talk to all seem to love them. Of course, they can’t get citizenship in the US despite providing for themselves and family without any help.
Posted by LemmyLives
Texas
Member since Mar 2019
15908 posts
Posted on 4/23/26 at 3:53 pm to
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A lot of SA whites are in farming now in east Arkansas

There is one farming/sheepherding in North Alabama that posts nearly every day a video of his "girls" and beautiful pasture, talking about how grateful he is.

More please.
This post was edited on 4/23/26 at 4:03 pm
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