Is the ANC’s Raid on the US Refugee Center an Act of War?

The ANC-led South African government’s raid on a US-operated refugee processing center in Johannesburg on December 16, 2025, is no mere immigration enforcement—it is a dramatic escalation that reveals the regime has completely lost all restraint. Amid millions of undocumented immigrants in the country, with deportations numbering only in the tens of thousands annually, the ANC deliberately targeted this specific facility aiding persecuted Afrikaners under President Trump’s priority US resettlement program. The odds of randomly selecting these exact seven Kenyan staff members for raid, if enforcement were truly impartial, are astronomical: one in quadrillions. This is not coincidence or routine; it is a calculated, politically motivated attack on a sensitive American operation, demonstrating selective aggression and utter disregard for diplomatic norms.

This brazen interference in US sovereign interests on foreign soil is tantamount to an act of war against the United States. By storming a facility tied to an official American refugee program and disrupting it through intimidation and arrests, the ANC has crossed a red line, provoking Washington while signaling hostility toward Western-aligned minorities seeking escape from its failing state.

The ANC has already proven itself an enemy of the United States and the West through years of anti-Western foreign policy alignments, obsessive hostility toward Israel—a key American ally—and repeated instances of corruption, deception, and fraud that undermine any claim to trustworthiness. As consistent liars, frauds, and cheats with a track record of eroding bilateral ties, any excuses the ANC now offers to the United........

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