White South African Refugees Brought To Us Due To ‘government-sponsored Racial Discrimination': State Dept

FIRST ON FOX: The United States is group to invited 49 white South African refugees who are victims of "government-sponsored group discrimination" successful their homeland, according to nan State Department. 

The U.S.-chartered formation touched down astatine Dulles Airport in Virginia connected Monday afternoon, when Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau welcomed nan group of Afrikaners. 

"Faced pinch undeniable government-sponsored group favoritism successful South Africa, nan first Afrikaner refugees person arrived successful nan United States," a elder State Department charismatic said successful an exclusive connection to Fox News Digital. 

"The U.S. Refugee Admissions Program was intended for situations for illustration this. Under President Trump's beardown leadership, nan State Department has helped to supply a caller life for these refugees successful America, wherever they will unrecorded successful freedom, safety, and opportunity."

TRUMP TO BRING WHITE AFRIKANERS TO US AS REFUGEES FROM SOUTH AFRICA, IN WAKE OF EXPROPRIATION LEGISLATION

Katia Beeden, life coach and campaigner for White South Africans who want to use for U.S. exile status, poses for a image astatine her residence successful Fish Hoek, Cape Town, South Africa, connected April 8, 2025. (REUTERS/Shafiek Tassiem/File Photo)

President Donald Trump first initiated their resettlement pinch an executive bid entitled, "Addressing Egregious Actions of nan Republic of South Africa," directing nan State Department to bump up Afrikaners to nan beforehand of nan statement for resettlement. 

South Africans are now capable to taxable a connection of liking pinch nan U.S. embassy successful Pretoria, which will reappraisal nan documents and interaction those who are eligible for nan question and reply process. 

Trump has virtually halted nan exile programme for those from war- and famine-ravaged nations for illustration Sudan and nan Democratic Republic of Congo. White South Africans opportunity they person been denied jobs and targeted for unit connected relationship of their race. 

Trump’s executive bid came successful consequence to a rule passed by nan South African authorities allowing it to return backstage onshore for nationalist use, sometimes without compensation. Trump claimed nan rule would beryllium utilized to target South Africa’s White number Afrikaner group, descended from Dutch and different European settlers who arrived much than 300 years ago. 

TRUMP, SOUTH AFRICA IN GROWING ROW OVER HOTLY CONTESTED LAND LAW, COUNTRY'S DEALS WITH US FOES

White South Africans supporting President Donald Trump and South African and U.S. tech billionaire Elon Musk stitchery successful beforehand of nan U.S. Embassy successful Pretoria connected Feb. 15, 2025 for a demonstration. (MARCO LONGARI/AFP via Getty Images)

The South African overseas ministry said claims that White South Africans faced a "well-founded fearfulness of persecution" were "unfounded." 

"It is astir regrettable that it appears that nan resettlement of South Africans to nan United States nether nan guise of being ‘refugees’ is wholly politically motivated and designed to mobility South Africa’s law democracy; a state which has successful truth suffered existent persecution nether Apartheid norm and has worked tirelessly to forestall specified levels of favoritism from ever occurring again," spokesperson Chrispin Phiri astatine the Ministry of International Relations and Cooperation added. 

The Afrikaners’ presence comes arsenic Trump tries to push backmost connected nan group authorities of South Africa, wherever advisor Elon Musk grew up during apartheid. 

President Donald Trump and South Africa were locked successful a negotiated statement complete a onshore expropriation enactment that Washington, D.C., says will lead to nan takeover of White-owned farms. (MARCO LONGARI/AFP via Getty Images)

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The Afrikaner families walking to nan U.S. are mostly from farming communities. 

Since apartheid ended successful nan 1990s, South Africa has sought to atone for segregationist policies, including pinch nan onshore redistribution rule signed successful January. The argumentation came aft a 2017 audit recovered that White South Africans owned three-quarters of individually-owned farms and cultivation property, while making up 7% of nan population. Black South Africans had been denied nan correct to ain premier cultivation onshore during nan apartheid era.