Sovereignty for Some: Racism, Immigration and the Global Tax Order
Document Type
News Article
Publication Date
11-4-2025
Publisher
Truthdig, LLC
Language
en-US
Abstract
President Donald Trump has reimagined refugee admissions in the United States. His plan to slash the program by nearly 95% would gut what was once the world’s most generous resettlement program. Even more chilling than the scale of the reduction are the priorities that shape it. Trump’s new approach envisions an admissions system that overwhelmingly favors white refugees — particularly Afrikaners from South Africa. This represents a deliberate inversion of the moral logic that once guided U.S. refugee policy: the idea that the world’s most powerful nation had a duty to protect the most vulnerable.
Recommended Citation
Steven Dean & Sarah Sherman-Stokes,
Sovereignty for Some: Racism, Immigration and the Global Tax Order
,
truthdig
(2025).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/shorter_works/310
Publisher URL
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/sovereignty-for-some-racism-immigration-and-the-global-tax-order/
