As expected, some media, the conservative Bulwark.com what I saw, would check out exactly who those white South African refugees are.
One of the white refugees (Charl Kleinhaus) is MAGA, anti-semite while advocating for violence.
An interesting point is whether or not this will affect any cases in US where anti-semitism was given as cause for deportation/kicked out, given the very high level officials meeting them along with said official’s comments.
Perhaps
@Mr._Clark could have a look at this?
The Trump administration is clear: Antisemitism from brown people will not be tolerated.
www.thebulwark.com
The honest answer is that I'm not sure if this will affect cases in which the government argued that a person should be deported based on antisemitic beliefs.
My best guess is that it's unlikely to have a significant affect. The government has quite a bit of discretion and it can be based on numerous factors. Also, the refugee status of the south Africans is apparently based on an administration finding that they were facing persecution.
For the most part, courts decide each case based on the facts of the case, and it is my understanding that courts defer to the administration to a large degree when weighing the merits of a given case (note that this is distinct from procedural issues). I suspect it would be difficult to convince a judge that he/she should decide a deportation case in front of him/her based on facts from another case, especially given that (as far as I know) the people being deported for alleged antisemitic beliefs were not given legal status based on a fear of persecution in their home country.
Also, off hand I'm not sure who, if anyone, would have standing to file an action in court in an effort to block the South African "refugees." Without a court decision in a refuge case, it's unclear how news reports of facts concerning refugees that have not been evaluated by a court would effect a completely different deportation case in court.
Conceivably, if a judge deciding a deportation case based on alleged antisemitism knows about the antisemitic South African refugee, he/she could take a more skeptical view of the government's arguments for deportation. This is speculative though.
That's not to say the administration's decisions are well-conceived, logically consistent, etc., it's just that I have a hard time off hand seeing the refugee cases having a significant impact on the deportation cases in court.
But, again, the honest answer is that I'm not sure. Someone with more experience in this area of law might be able to give a better answer.
