WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration will welcome more than two dozen white South Africans to the United States as refugees next week, an unusual move because it has suspended most refugee resettlement operations, officials and documents said Friday.
The Trump administration is allowing several dozen white Afrikaners from South Africa into the U.S. under refugee status, saying they're suffering from racial discrimination in the country.
The Trump administration is bringing a small number of white South Africans to the United States as refugees next week in what it says is the start of a larger...
The United States will begin admitting the first group of White South African refugees next week, whom President Trump’s administration has argued have been victims of “racial discrimination.” “The refugee program is not intended as a solution for global poverty.
The Trump administration is supporting white South Africans to move to the US, claiming they are being persecuted. South Africa has denied the accusations which are themselves a common far-right trope.
A group of 49 white South Africans has departed their homeland for the U.S. on a private charter plane as refugees, a rare designation under the Trump administration.
JOHANNESBURG/WASHINGTON >> The Trump administration today welcomed 59 white South Africans it has granted refugee status in the U.S. for being deemed victims of racial discrimination, a move that has drawn criticism from Democrats and stirred confusion in South Africa.
DULLES, Virginia (AP) — The Trump administration on Monday welcomed a small group of white South Africans as refugees, saying they face discrimination and
The U.S. has welcomed 49 White South African refugees, citing “government-sponsored racial discrimination," under a President Donald Trump executive order prioritizing Afrikaner resettlement.
The Trump administration is welcoming a small group of white South Africans as refugees, saying they face discrimination and violence at home. That's despite pushback from the country’s government denying they are facing persecution.
American officials welcomed a group of 59 Afrikaners, who are from the white ethnic minority who ruled South Africa during apartheid, to the U.S. as refugees.
White South Africans make up around 7% of the country's population. But they still own some 78% of private farmland in South Africa and have about 20 times the wealth of Black South Africans.
The first group of white South Africans arrived in the United States on Monday, the State Department announced following the prioritization of the Afrikaner refugee resettlement program. State spokesperson Tammy Bruce argued in a statement that the group is vulnerable and facing unjust racial discri…
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