CNN analyst says white South Africans should go back to Europe, indicates genocide is what establishes refugee status

CNN panelist and former staffer with both the Obama and Biden White Houses gave her analysis of South African politics on Monday, saying that if white South Africans don't like the laws of the country they should go back to where they came from. She also suggested that to be a refugee, one must be experiencing genocide at home.

"So if you think about the history of South Africa, it being under an apartheid system, where I think it is 80% of the population, that are black Africans, only own four percent of the land. That is because they were put in shanty towns and moved into areas where they had no rights," Allison said.

"And so, 35, 30 plus years ago they went through a revolution. The apartheid system ended, and they reformed their constitution under the great leader Nelson Mandela, and that allowed for a racial reconciliation, one that this country has yet to do, but South Africa did it," Allison said.
 

Former Dem staffer Ashley Allison suggests that people can only attain refugee status in the US if there is a genocide in their own countries. So no Venezuelan, Nicaraguan, Cuban, or Haitian refugees. Or maybe it just applies to white people.

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