SHARPTON: “I was deeply, I’m talking for myself. I was deeply disappointed to learn yesterday that while the Trump Administration was arresting you for standing up for migrants, they were also finalizing plans to fly white South Africans that they are calling refugees to the United States on State Department charter flights starting next week. They are organizing what White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller calls ‘a large-scale relocation effort’ for these white migrants from South Africa, even while they’re terrorizing other, mostly non-white migrants who have been here for years. It seems to be very a very clear signal of the racial politics behind this immigration crackdown. Doesn’t that appear that way to you, Mayor Baraka?”
BARAKA: “ Yeah. I don’t think they’ve been hiding it, though. It’s just that’s kind of white supremacist authoritarianism that’s happening. This country is slipping into authoritarianism. And we’re watching it. We’re watching them defy the courts. We’re watching them lock up elected officials, put pressure on large legal organizations, make it difficult for people to oppose them. And attacking black and brown communities, attacking DEI now, flying white Afrikaners over here to the United States to find refuge, where they deny refuge for everybody else from war-torn communities at that. I mean, this is very clear to us, it has always been clear to me, and our job is to make sure we expose it.”