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More white South Africans arrive in the US under a new refugee program
- A second group of nine white South Africans arrived in the United States under a refugee program announced by the Trump administration.
- The first group of 59 white South Africans arrived at Dulles International Airport last month under the same program.
- The Trump administration stated that refugee status is being offered to white South Africans who are believed to be persecuted.
- Advocacy groups report about 8,000 applications for refugee status from South Africans, though exact figures from U.S. Officials are unavailable.
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REPORTING - In Nelson Mandela's country, many white people, often rural, are now dreaming of obtaining asylum in the United States, hence their nickname. They are not threatened with genocide but, for various reasons, they feel marginalized.
"White genocide" isn't a thing. Trump disagrees. : It's Been a Minute
You may have heard that the U.S. gained 59 new residents last month from South Africa - and that more came this past weekend. They're all white Afrikaners: a white minority group descended from European colonists. Trump has given some of these white Afrikaners refugee status because he claims a "white genocide" is happening against them in South Africa. This claim is untrue. So where is it coming from? And why might this claim be politically exp…
"White genocide" isn't a thing. Trump disagrees.
You may have heard that the U.S. gained 59 new residents last month from South Africa – and that more came this past weekend. They’re all white Afrikaners: a white minority group descended from European colonists. Trump has given some of these white Afrikaners refugee status because he claims a “white genocide” is happening against them in South Africa. This claim is untrue. So where is it coming from? And why might this claim be politically exp…
Did South Africa's White 'refugees' sell a lie to the US?
A second group of White South Africans arrived in the US last week as part of a refugee programme put in place by the Trump administration, which alleges that members of the White Afrikaner minority are being racially persecuted. South Africa's crime statistics, however, tell a different story.
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