Jenny Taer

They just said they were laughing.

They thought it was a joke.

It was just shocking to see that this population is being taught, again, how to use a toilet and to shower.

So when refugees enter the U.S., they are given some kind of course on how to better assimilate to the American way of life.

And so this is through an app some of them are given where they watch videos, and some of them actually go to in-person courses on this.

Now, these videos that we found are pretty shocking.

They're about personal hygiene.

And like you mentioned, they teach very basic things like how to use a toilet, shower regularly, use deodorant, all those types of things that you would think are basic knowledge.

Here's one of the clips.

Now, these videos are produced through a nonprofit organization, the International Rescue Committee, which runs this group called Settle In, that through its group switchboard actually produces the videos and distributes them to other nonprofit organizations that are interested.

aiding refugees and are instructing them on how to assimilate to the American way of life.

Settle In is funded by the Department of Health and Human Services and is part of, like we said, the International Rescue Committee's Switchboard Initiative, which boasts that it is 100% federally funded through a grant that has given them more than $20 million in taxpayer funds since 2023.

These videos have been around for years, actually.

They've been teaching this to refugees for a while now.

But how this really came to light is because now the Trump administration is prioritizing the admission of Afrikaner refugees, those white South Africans who are an ethnic minority

in South Africa who are facing racial persecution.

So groups like the IRC have been offering these for years.

And the Trump administration actually, in its fight to reform the refugee program, they tried to cut the contracts to the IRC a while ago.

And due to a court order because of lawsuits, the Trump administration had to reinstate those contracts and has to continue to use them for refugee resettlement programs like this.

Now, I spoke to several of these Afrikaners who were given these videos through the app or who had gone to a training session where they showed the videos and they said they were just shocked by what they saw.