The first plane carrying white South Africans who received refugee status from Trump govt landed at Washington airport on Monday. President Trump essentially halted all refugee admissions programmes on his first day in office before creating a pathway for Afrikaners, a white ethnic minority that ruled during apartheid in South Africa, to resettle in the US.
The group that arrived on a US-funded flight say they have been discriminated against, denied job opportunities and have been subject to violence because of their race.
Forty-nine Afrikaners had boarded the flight, according to a spokesman for SA's airport authority, after more than 8,000 people expressed interest in the programme. Trump said on Monday the US was extending citizenship to these individuals, who he said were victims of a genocide. He said, "Farmers are being killed... They happen to be white. Whether they are white or Black makes no difference to me. White farmers are being brutally killed and the land is being confiscated in South Africa." Police data does not support the narrative of mass murder. From April 2020 to March 2024, 225 people were killed on farms in South Africa, according to the police. But most of the victims - 101 - were current or former workers living on farms, who are mostly Black. Fifty-three of the victims were farmers, who are usually white.nyt
The group that arrived on a US-funded flight say they have been discriminated against, denied job opportunities and have been subject to violence because of their race.
Forty-nine Afrikaners had boarded the flight, according to a spokesman for SA's airport authority, after more than 8,000 people expressed interest in the programme. Trump said on Monday the US was extending citizenship to these individuals, who he said were victims of a genocide. He said, "Farmers are being killed... They happen to be white. Whether they are white or Black makes no difference to me. White farmers are being brutally killed and the land is being confiscated in South Africa." Police data does not support the narrative of mass murder. From April 2020 to March 2024, 225 people were killed on farms in South Africa, according to the police. But most of the victims - 101 - were current or former workers living on farms, who are mostly Black. Fifty-three of the victims were farmers, who are usually white.nyt
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