White South Africans Granted Refugee Status By Trump Arrive In America

The Afrikaners at the Washington Dulles Airport in Virginia on Monday, May 12, 2025

Source: Africa Publicity

A group of 49 white South Africans or Afrikaners granted refugee status by President Donald Trump arrived at Washington Dulles Airport in Virginia on Monday, May 12, 2025.

Welcoming the Afrikaners to the US were US Deputy Secretary of State, Christopher Landau and Department of Homeland Security Deputy Secretary, Troy Edgar.

Speaking to the Afrikaners upon their arrival, Landau said: “We respect what you had to deal with these few years.

According to him, many of those who arrived in the US were farmers, assuring them that would “bloom” in the US.

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The Trump administration has moved to not only admit but to expedite the processing of Afrikaners as refugees for alleged discrimination. At the same time, it has suspended virtually all other refugee resettlement, including for people fleeing war and famine. The policy has drawn criticism from the South African government and from refugee advocates.

On Monday, May 12, 2025, while addressing the media at his Oval Office, President Trump condemned the American media for not reporting on what he claimed to be “genocide” against Afrikaners in South Africa.

According to Trump, “Because they’re being killed. And, we don’t want to see people being killed. Now, South Africa leadership is coming to see me I understand sometime next week. And, you know, we’re supposed to have a, I guess, a G20 meeting there or something but we’re having a G20 meeting. I don’t know how we can go unless that situation is taken care of, but it’s a genocide that’s taking place that you people don’t want to write about it. But it’s a terrible thing that’s taking place. And, farmers are being killed. They happen to be white, but whether they’re white or black makes no difference to me. But white farmers are being brutally killed and their land is being confiscated in South Africa.”

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But South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa observed on Monday that the Afrikaners going to the US “do not fit the definition of a refugee.”

According to Ramaphosa, he told Trump that what the US President had been told about the persecution of the White minority group was not true.

Speaking during a panel discussion at the Africa CEO Forum in Cote d’Ivoire, Ramaphosa stated that “Those people who have fled are not being persecuted, they are not being hounded, they are not being treated badly.”

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