The true refugee crisis

Julia Nikhinson of the Associated Press this week shot a photograph that will earn a place in the annals of iconic South African imagery.

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It captures the first moments after the arrival of the Afrikaner refugees on American soil.

The Stars and Stripes dangling limply from their hands, they look bedraggled and bemused. It was undoubtedly a long, tiresome journey, in fairness. But there’s enough in their expressions to suggest they were mortified at realising that the pageantry greeting their arrival betrayed the political game they are being used in.

Their landing in the US was orchestrated by a political machine that cares as little for their supposed plight as it does for the deportees going in the other direction.