"America’s Garbage Can?”: The Truth About Selective Asylum and Silent Slaughter in South Africa
In this searing episode of Breaking Battlegrounds, hosts Chuck Warren and Sam Stone, alongside Free Beacon Reporter Jon Levine, confront one of the most controversial failures in U.S. immigration policy. While white South African farmers face violent persecution, land seizures, and are being driven from their homes, they are routinely denied asylum in the United States. Yet, known gang members from Central America—fleeing intra-gang violence—are often welcomed.
Levine and the hosts dig into the ideological double standards shaping asylum decisions, arguing that political correctness and anti-Western sentiment are blinding policymakers to real humanitarian crises. They draw chilling parallels to Zimbabwe’s collapse after similar land grabs and warn that South Africa is headed down the same destructive path.
This episode asks a urgent question: Has America become the world’s dumping ground—welcoming chaos, while turning its back on those who could genuinely contribute? Prepare for an unfiltered conversation that calls out hypocrisy, challenges media silence, and demands accountability.
Transcript:
Sam Stone: When we went to the break, we were talking about South Africa. One of the things, you know, that how do we square the notion that the persecution that these white farmers are facing in Africa, where they're being killed and being hunted and being driven off their land.
They're not qualified for asylum. But a gang member who's afraid of other gang members from El Salvador is.
Jon Levine: Right. America has to be a garbage can. We can't possibly bring in people who might work and pay income tax. No, no, no. I only want the refuse. I only want the gang members.
It says on the Statue of Liberty, give us your gang members. No, we don't have to do this. We don't have to be the garbage can for the world. We have a right to take in migrants who might actually make our country better. I'm sorry. You know, the farmers in South Africa... Do very great work.
You know what you're not going to hear about from Afrikaners? Grooming gangs. You want to hear about Afrikaner grooming gangs. They're not going to dominate the welfare rolls. They might actually contribute something useful to our country. So I can't explain why the left hates them, except that there is a part of a broader ideology, as we've talked about already, of anti-white racism on the left. And it's a core part of their philosophy. And I'm not saying it's just that because, you know, the Ukrainians were white and we took many of them as well. But anti-white racism can't be extricated from why progressives hate the Afrikaners.
Sam Stone: The other element to this, which the world is allowing this slaughter and them to be driven out. We've seen this story before. White Afrikaner farmers produce the vast majority of South Africa's food crops.
Jon Levine: Right. And in Zimbabwe, they did a similar kind of land reform deal where they took all of the farmland that was owned by the white farmers and they gave them to just political cronies of Mugabe and the ruling government. And it produced an instant famine. An instant famine. And Zimbabwe was once called the breadbasket of Africa, but you've got to be over 70 to remember that. And it went into complete famine. It's been a tailspin ever since, and they've never recovered. And when he talks, that law, that law that allows them to seize land without compensation, that's the beginning of the end.
Because once you start doing that, it's not going to go to qualified black farmers. It's just going to go to like the president.
Chuck Warren: Right.
Jon Levine: Whoever the Hunter Biden is out there. Smoking crack on it, I'm sure.
Sam Stone: Yes.
Jon Levine: And you think they're going to grow things? They definitely won't. It'll be here's a plow. Here's the land. They won't know what to do. And you end up with famine. Because what that guy said in the Oval Office was true. Without food and without water, that's one of the most important things.
Sam Stone: Yep.
Chuck Warren: We got a couple of minutes left here.
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