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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-administration-white-south-africans-refugees-afrikaners/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&linkId=1011949036
The Trump administration is planning to welcome up to 17,500
additional White Afrikaners from South Africa as refugees over the
next 12 months, according to a notice sent to Congress on Tuesday and
obtained by CBS News.
The State Department informed congressional officials that the Trump administration is planning to allocate 17,500 refugee spots for fiscal
year 2027, and that they will "primarily" go to Afrikaners, who
President Trump has claimed are being oppressed for being White.
Fiscal year 2027 starts in October.
While the second Trump administration has effectively shut down the
U.S. refugee resettlement program for most people fleeing persecution
and violence around the world, it has made an exemption for
Afrikaners, resettling thousands of them over the past year and a
half.
Trump administration officials have portrayed Afrikaners as victims of
racial oppression in post-apartheid South Africa. The South African
government has consistently denied persecuting the ethnic minority,
made up of descendants of European settlers, mostly from the
Netherlands.
"Afrikaners face the seizure of agricultural property without
compensation; government policies designed to dismantle equal
opportunity in employment, education, and business; and hateful
rhetoric fueling disproportionate violence against racially disfavored minorities," the State Department said in its notice to Congress.
Last week, the U.S. imposed new sanctions on South African officials
who it said were responsible for discriminating against Afrikaners.
The Afrikaner resettlement effort is projected to cost the U.S.
government $500 million, the notice to Congress said.
"The United States anticipates that Afrikaners from South Africa will
fully assimilate into the United States in a manner that preserves
taxpayer resources for U.S. citizens and does not anticipate other
countries resettling Afrikaners," the notice read.
Mr. Trump has alleged that Afrikaners face a "genocide" in South
Africa. In a tense Oval Office meeting last year, he confronted South
African President Cyril Ramaphosa on the claims, showing him a video
that spotlighted murders of farmers in the country.
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