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Donald V. Watkins
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TRUMP ENGAGES IN A LAND GRAB IN BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA FOR THE PRIORITIZED RESETTLEMENT OF APARTHEID-LOVING WHITE SOUTH AFRICAN REFUGEES
PART I
By: Donald V. Watkins
Copyrighted and Published on June 10, 2026
Despite a mountain of evidence to the contrary, South African native Elon Musk convinced President Donald Trump in January 2025 that fellow white South Africans, known as “Afrikaners,” are victims of genocide in their own country. Afrikaners are the white ethnic minority that ruled South Africa with brutal force during the era of racial apartheid (1948-1994) in that country.
Since October 1, 2025, the U.S. has accepted 6,668 refugees. Of those, 6,665 were Afrikaners. Trump plans to admit up to 17,500 Afrikaners by the end of the 2026 fiscal year in September.According to a New York Times article in May 2025, one of the primary resettlement cities for Afrikaners is Birmingham, Alabama. The city that was once known as the “Johannesburg of the South” for its violently enforced racial segregation and suffocating discrimination against Blacks is being prepared to receive the family members of the Afrikaners who enforced White Supremacy against the country’s black South African majority with massacres, torture, beatings, and unimaginable acts of gratuitous violence.
Trump’s U.S. Departments of State (DOS), Homeland Security (DHS), Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and Health and Human Services (HHS), have partnered with the Alabama Office for Refugees (AOR) and various non-profit groups to administer the resettlement of Afrikaners in Birmingham (and three other primary locations in America). This effort is coordinated through the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), which has an $11 billion budget for the 2026 fiscal year.
AOR currently has three primary in-state regional offices that participate in the federal refugee resettlement program, with one – Birmingham-based Inspiritus — specifically identified as a processing center for Afrikaners in Birmingham.
Once the Afrikaners arrive in America, they get generous cash stipends, more than adequate food assistance, healthcare via Medicaid, employment placement assistance, educational assistance for their children, and housing assistance on an interim and permanent basis. In short, Trump has federal money flowing to the Afrikaners on a priority basis.Five Birmingham Neighborhoods and Communities Have Been Targeted in a Land Grab for Afrikaner Resettlement
Working quietly with AOR, Sen. Tommy Tuberville, and Sen. Katie Britt, the Trump administration has targeted the Birmingham neighborhoods and communities of Smithfield, which includes College Hills, Graymont, Enon Ridge, and East Thomas, and Bush Hills for the resettlement of thousands of incoming Afrikaners.One of the main pillars of Trump’s Birmingham Afrikaner resettlement plan took shape on November 10, 2025, when DHS and the U.S. Coast Guard issued a joint public notice of their intent to purchase property for a “training center.” The property description in the notice mirrored the property description of the 192-acre campus of Birmingham-Southern College (BSC).
The Coast Guard is a DHS law enforcement agency, just like ICE. It is ramping up its force by up to 15,000 law enforcement members and support staff. What’s driving this growth is Trump’s ramped-up of ICE roundups, detentions, and deportations of immigrants of color.The BSC purchase, which was announced in March, was part of Trump’s “Trojan Horse” trick on the unsuspecting Birmingham neighborhoods and communities. The $126 million used for the purchase reportedly came from the $38 billion allocated in Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” which was signed into law on July 4, 2025, for 34 new ICE detention centers.
On June 5, 2026, the Trump administration celebrated the BSC purchase with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and an official dedication program on the BSC campus. No Black federal, state, city, or county official was permitted on the stage at the dedication ceremony or in the photo-op of the ribbon cutting. This snub occurred three days after the U.S. Supreme Court okayed a congressional redistricting map that intentionally discriminated against black voters in Alabama.
This snub was a subtle but direct message to the incoming Afrikaners, as well as the 11,000 new ones in the citizenship pipeline this fiscal year, that the “White Supremacy” to which they were accustomed in South Africa is intact in Birmingham and protected by the Trump administration, the state of Alabama, and the Supreme Court today.The estimated 1,000 civilian jobs at the Birmingham Coast Guard facility are earmarked for Afrikaners, not the black residents who live in the five adversely impacted neighborhoods and communities. What is more, the presence of the Coast Guard facility affords the Trump administration a unique opportunity to use the federal power of eminent domain to: (a) clear these neighborhoods and communities of existing residents and other “undesirables,” (b) take the private residential properties into the federal land management program that holds title to two soon-to-be-demolished public housing projects in the affected neighborhoods, and (c) lease or sell all of this federal property to private developers for the exclusive use in the Afrikaner resettlement program on an autonomous “Whites Only,” mini-version of a “Freedom City.”
The Trump administration also plans to use federal eminent domain power to obtain additional property in the vicinity for DHS’s ICE immigrant detention center function. No local approvals are needed for Trump’s land grab. He can repurpose this property on an emergency basis for critical federal government functions.
On May 7, 2025, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey and the MAGA-controlled Alabama legislature conducted advance preparatory work for Trump’s land grab plan by seizing control of the Birmingham Water Works Board’s $1.3 billion in assets, without any significant fight, and placing these assets under the firm control of a newly-formed, white-controlled, Central Alabama Water agency. Trump and his allies in Alabama knew that whoever controls the water controls land development and redevelopment projects.
Funding for Trump’s Birmingham land grab for the Afrikaner resettlement plan is coming from $18 billion in budgeted federal funds and $5 billion in tax credits that have been redirected and earmarked for different scales and versions of Trump’s “Freedom Cities” program.
Part II in this investigative series will follow the money. Who is benefiting from the flow of money in Trump’s Birmingham land grab, and who is not? The answers will shock you.
Rachel Bitecofer 🗽🦆
@RachelBitecofer
Remember when Biden let all those asylum seekers in?
It’s because federal law demands it.
Trump is out of compliance on a federal court order by refusing to process asylum claims.
Biden was the one following the law
https://x.com/RachelBitecofer/status/2065515241631588837
Lovable Liberal and his Old English sheepdog
@DougWahl1
OUR HERO OF THE DAY IS…
General Chapie James! He served in nearly 200 combat missions in Korea and Vietnam and became the nation’s first black 4 star General.
Pete Hehseth has removed General James’s portrait from the Pentagon.
https://x.com/DougWahl1/status/2065485580142588402
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Michael T. Lester
@MichaelTLester
Trump is once again talking about Kharg Island and saying we can take it “at a time of our choosing.”
He’s not wrong. We can get troops on that island.
But he’s not telling you what happens next.
Kharg Island is 16 miles off the Iranian coast. Iran has every square foot of it registered for artillery and rocket fire. They’ve spent the last three months laying anti-personnel mines on the beaches, pre-deploying shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles, and moving IRGC troops into hardened positions. They know we might be coming.
Every one of our ships in our assault force is 47 seconds from an Iranian anti-ship cruise missile. Every Marine on that island is within rocket artillery range of a coastline that runs 1,500 miles. We can’t suppress that effectively even if we used all of our forces
I flew CH-53E helicopters in Desert Storm, and I know what it means to put troops in a fixed position on a small island with no room to maneuver and no friendly territory within reach. The military term for that is a kill box. The political term is leverage. The human term is a body bag.
The analysts are being careful in how they are framing it. Ryan Brobst and Cameron McMillan of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, which is about as hawkish as think tanks get, wrote in March that a seizure and occupation “is more likely to expand and extend the war than it is to deliver any sort of decisive victory.” Former CENTCOM commander Joseph Votel said troops on the island would be “very vulnerable” and would require massive logistical backup. Malcolm Davis of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute put it more plainly: “I think the Iranians can probably sit back and attack Americans on Kharg Island, and casualties will mount up.”
That’s the politically correct version.
Here’s what they’re not saying out loud: Iran has FPV drones. The same camera-equipped drones being used by the millions in Ukraine. If our troops land on that island, Iranian drone footage of American casualties will be on every screen in the world within hours. Trump will own every frame of it.
Iraq bombed Kharg Island for four straight years during the Iran-Iraq War. From 1982 to 1986, but they never put a single soldier on it. They couldn’t. The Iranians rebuilt and kept exporting oil. That’s the historical record on what “taking Kharg” actually means.
And here’s the part that makes even less sense: seizing the island doesn’t open the Strait of Hormuz. Kharg is 300 miles from the strait. The Iranians mine the strait from their southern coastline. You’d have to suppress 1,500 miles of Iranian coast to fix that problem. Kharg is just a political symbol, not a solution.
We can bomb it into rubble. We’ve already struck over 90 targets there. Trump can destroy every oil facility on that island from the air, permanently. That’s a real option with real consequences for Iran’s economy and real consequences for global oil markets.
But putting Americans on the ground 16 miles from the Iranian coast, surrounded by water, within range of everything Iran has left?
That’s not a strategic or tactical military operation. That’s just a sacrifice of American lives.
Are you OK with that?
12:46 PM · Jun 12, 2026
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Fred Wellman
@FPWellman
28 years and Hegseth cancels it. This isn’t anti-DEI. It’s hate designed to push them out of service. — Air Force cites DEI ban in cancellation of wreath-laying honoring women vets
https://x.com/FPWellman/status/2065418097905844643
Kyle Griffin
@kylegriffin1
Republican members of the Senate Armed Services Committee blocked a Democratic effort to strengthen existing bans on federal troops entering polling stations or seizing ballots or voting machines, two senators tell MS NOW.
https://x.com/kylegriffin1/status/2065498140065645049
EBONY
@EBONY
Love Island USA S8 is shining an uncomfortable light on colorism. From the very first coupling, where no one stepped forward for the darkest‑skinned man… the season has exposed how desirability politics play out on reality TV.
https://x.com/EBONY/status/2065472151931531301
Democracy Docket
@DemocracyDocket
NEW: Though Jay Clayton has kept a low profile, he recently promoted lies about California’s election, earning him a nomination to be Trump’s Director of National Intelligence.
It signals the clearest sign yet of the dangers facing the midterms, Marc Elias writes.
https://x.com/DemocracyDocket/status/2065444671975838097
Brian Allen
@allenanalysis
BREAKING: CNN Just Highlighted A Pretty Devastating Number.
84% of Americans say the Epstein files reinforce their belief that powerful people are rarely held accountable.
Think about that.
Not 84% of Democrats.
Not 84% of Republicans.
84% of Americans.
The breakdown was 82% of Republicans
– 80% of Independents
– 90% of Democrats
Prediction markets have reportedly lowered the odds that Todd Blanche becomes Trump’s next Attorney General.
The Epstein controversy isn’t creating distrust.
It’s validating distrust that was already there.
And now it’s starting to affect people connected to the administration.
https://x.com/allenanalysis/status/2065494075248431222
Chris Cadence
@ChrisCadence_
It always bothered me that Black people eluded to Black successful people had to go thru the Illuminati or sell their soul to get where they are but never question not one White person with that rhetoric. Using white supremacy tactics and didn’t even know it.
5:25 PM · Jun 12, 2026
https://x.com/ChrisCadence_/status/2065485658844709146
NAACP
@NAACP
Sixty-three years ago today, Medgar Evers returned home to his family only to be met with an assassin’s bullet before he could even reach his front door.
The 37-year old father of three, husband, and NAACP leader’s life and voice were stolen from us in a senseless act of racial violence.
Today, we honor his courage, his sacrifice, and his unwavering dedication to the fight for justice, equity, and voting rights.
His legacy lives on in each of us. May the movement continue to move forward in his memory.
5:30 PM · Jun 12, 2026
https://x.com/NAACP/status/2065486830351396995
Marc Elias
@marcelias.bsky.social
NEW EPISODE: Donald Trump is waging a three front war on voting: restricting voter registration through proof-of-citizenship laws, controlling who gets to use mail-in voting via the U.S. Postal Service and laying the groundwork for another “stop the count” campaign. youtu.be/b28A7nduT8c?…
https://bsky.app/profile/marcelias.bsky.social/post/3mo45urqc5c25
Liberal Librarian, Son of Cuban Immigrants
@liberallibrarian.bsky.social
Dear American voters: ANYTHING that happens in this country is due to us and our actions or inactions. WE are to blame for anything bad. Because WE are sovereign. Stop your bitching and buck-passing. Take some fucking responsibility like so-called adults.
https://bsky.app/profile/liberallibrarian.bsky.social/post/3mo4j23rrz22l
Scott MacFarlane
@macfarlanenews.bsky.social
FLASH: In Virginia, Judge Leonie Brinkema has issued an injunction halting Trump’s Slush fund.
The Justice Dept has one week to produce EVIDENCE that the slush fund is abandoned and won’t move forward ever, or she’ll allow civil case to go forward
Big loss for team Trump
10:18 AM · Jun 12, 2026
https://bsky.app/profile/macfarlanenews.bsky.social/post/3mo3zy2nyps2o
Kamala Harris
@KamalaHarris
“They told us voting is a privilege, not a right.”
That’s what I heard from students at North Carolina A&T who are fighting to protect access to the ballot.
These young leaders are organizing, speaking out, and refusing to let anyone take their power, and I am so proud of them.
https://x.com/KamalaHarris/status/2065503338192400415
Brennan Center
@BrennanCenter
The Trump administration has relied heavily on a tool known as the SAVE program to promote false claims of noncitizen voting. We point out the program’s major flaws and the risks of using it to maintain voter rolls.
https://x.com/BrennanCenter/status/2065476055943544941
they/them might be giants ☭
@babadookspinoza
The myth of democracy can’t survive into the age of trillionaires—the ruling class isn’t even pretending it will. They’re busy preparing for an entirely different future than the one they’re selling us on. In fact most of us don’t appear in their future at all. This may be our last moment of choice.
3:27 PM · Jun 12, 2026
https://x.com/babadookspinoza/status/2065456014799827160
Randall Barnes
@AuthorRandallB
I had a lot of high hope for Stephen A. Smith in his back-and-forth with Trump, but I lost all respect for that man. He calls you low IQ, and if you know about Stephen A., you know that that is something that he’s loathed for years.
He’s loathed not being considered as an intellectual or the smartest in the room for so long. That’s why he uses the “big words” that people say he does (they ain’t really big words). That’s why him and Max didn’t really get along. That’s sort of why he’s made this slide into politics.
But you have a president that ain’t smart himself, calling you low IQ, and you not only say you’re not offended, but you’re saying that it’s not political and you’re gonna keep it basketball?
I was holding out a little bit of hope for Stephen A because I really did rock with him for a long time. He was partly the reason why I wanted to be a sports journalist on TV and radio, espousing my opinions. I’m not even just saying that. I’ve been a fan of Stephen A. Smith since about 2006-2007. But this is just a bridge too far
I can’t totally disassociate because he’s an HBCU alum and I have to cover him for work, but this just takes the cake from me. I wasn’t on his side at all, but I just held out hope that one day he’d realize what’s what and react accordingly, but that man’s a lost cause. He’s lost to his ego.
2:41 PM · Jun 12, 2026
https://x.com/AuthorRandallB/status/2065444479222350006
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Headquarters
@HQNewsNow
Tens of thousands of people are currently watching a live feed of workers preparing to remove Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center.
https://x.com/HQNewsNow/status/2065478241230397697
Good Morning, Everyone😊😊😊
Good morning! If only Hillary and Kamala didn’t have annoying laughs. (Heavy snark).