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PULSE POINTS:
❓What Happened: The Episcopal Church is ending its partnership with the U.S. government on refugee resettlement, refusing to assist in resettling white South African refugees.
👥 Who’s Involved: The Episcopal Church, Presiding Bishop Sean Rowe, President Donald J. Trump, and 49 Afrikaner refugees.
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📍 Where & When: United States, decision announced Monday, refugees arrived the same day.
💬 Key Quote: “In light of our church’s steadfast commitment to racial justice and reconciliation… we are not able to take this step,” said Bishop Sean Rowe.
⚠️ Impact: The move ends a decades-long collaboration and highlights the Episcopal Church’s political agenda.
IN FULL:
The Episcopal Church has announced its decision to cease collaborating with the U.S. government on refugee resettlement, specifically declining to help in resettling white South African refugees. The announcement, made by Presiding Bishop Sean Rowe on Monday, marks the end of a longstanding partnership between the church’s Episcopal Migration Ministries and federal agencies.
The decision coincided with the arrival of 49 Afrikaner refugees in the United States. These individuals were granted priority resettlement status under the Trump administration, allowing them to bypass the typically lengthy waiting periods other groups face.
“In light of our church’s steadfast commitment to racial justice and reconciliation and our historic ties with the Anglican Church of Southern Africa, we are not able to take this step,” Rowe stated. He added that the church would conclude its federal refugee resettlement grant agreements by the end of the fiscal year.
President Trump has prioritized resettling white South Africans, after the South African government passed laws allowing it to seize white-owned farmland without compensation, alongside brutal violence directed at Dutch-descended Afrikaners. “It’s a genocide that’s taking place. Farmers are being killed. They happen to be white,” Trump remarked on May 12.
The move by the Episcopal Church comes just months after the Trump administration ended federal funding for Roman Catholic groups who were aiding illegal migrants and asylum seekers. Catholic Migration Services (CMS) would have received nearly $300,000 for the resettling of migrants, but this was suspended in March.
Catholic Relief Services (CRS) announced in February that it would face major layoffs due to its reliance on money from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). President Trump halted USAID funding for a multitude of woke projects and organizations shortly after his inauguration.
PULSE POINTS:
❓What Happened: Hasan Piker, a far-left streamer on Amazon’s Twitch with over six million followers across social media, was detained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport. Piker, who openly backs Houthi attacks on civilian shipping in the Red Sea, claims he was targeted for his views on foreign policy and stance against President Donald J. Trump.
👥 Who’s Involved: Hasan Piker, CBP officials, U.S. government spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin, and the Trump administration.
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📍 Where & When: Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, on Sunday, May 11, 2025.
💬 Key Quote: “Claims that his political beliefs triggered the inspection are baseless,” U.S. government official Tricia McLaughlin posted on X (formerly Twitter).
⚠️ Impact: Piker’s detention underscores the Trump administration’s firm stance on national security, prioritizing scrutiny of individuals with terrorist sympathies.
IN FULL:
Hasan “HasanAbi” Piker, a top streamer on Amazon’s Twitch platform, was detained by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport on Sunday. Piker, boasting over six million followers across social media, openly supports the Houthis—a designated terrorist organization operating out of Yemen—and their attacks on civilian shipping and sailors. Piker, who was raised in Turkey, previously said that “America deserved 9/11” and stated Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX), who lost an eye during a deployment in Iraq, “literally los[t] his eye because some mujahideen—a brave f***ing soldier—f***ed his eye hole with their d**k.”
Piker, returning from France, complained on X (formerly Twitter) that CBP officials quizzed him about his views on Trump, Israel, the Houthis, and Hamas, claiming the “insane situation” was an attempt to “silence” him. “It’s very obvious that they knew exactly who I was,” he told followers, framing the inspection as a political witch hunt.
U.S. officials denied Piker’s claims, with spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin saying he was “lying for likes,” and adding: “Claims that his political beliefs triggered the inspection are baseless.” The CBP added, “Our officers are following the law, not agendas,” and that Piker was released promptly after a lawful check.
Notably, Piker is not merely pro-Palestinian or anti-Trump. In a recent debate with Ethan Klein, a liberal YouTuber, Piker stated, “I believe what the Houthis are doing… to implement a blockade on the Red Sea, is a good thing, ten toes f***ing down. They are on the morally right side.”
Of an incident in which Houthi terrorists hijacked a civilian vessel and held a number of Filipino sailors hostage for around a year, Piker said, “It is a show of force to stop other… commercial shipping from going through. They literally bankrupted an entire Israeli port, I’d say that’s numbers on the f***ing board, baby.”
As recently as March, Piker told his followers, “If you cared about Medicare fraud or Medicaid fraud, you would kill Rick Scott, OK?” Last April, responding to comments by Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) on anti-Israel protestors, Piker shared an image of an improvised firearm design, in what was widely interpreted as a call to assassinate the GOP lawmaker.
Hasan Piker, one of the very top streamers on Amazon’s Twitch platform, openly endorses the Houthis—a designated terrorist organization—attacking civilian ships and kidnapping random Filipino sailors. (Note that Twitch banned Trump for well over three years for his “rhetoric.”) pic.twitter.com/emVBy4XR95
— Jack Montgomery (@JackBMontgomery) May 5, 2025
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