White South Africans arrive in U.S. after Trump administration grants refugee standing

A airplane carrying dozens of White South Africans arrived at Dulles Worldwide Airport on Monday, a State Division official mentioned, after the Trump administration granted them refugee standing in the US.

The group — which incorporates households with youngsters — was greeted on the D.C.-area airport by U.S. officers, together with Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau and Deputy Secretary of Homeland Safety Troy Edgar. Landau informed reporters the group has confronted “egregious discrimination” in South Africa — which the nation’s authorities has denied.

Landau mentioned the brand new arrivals have been “fastidiously vetted” in South Africa previous to their arrival. They departed the nation’s capital metropolis of Johannesburg through a constitution airplane on Sunday.

Earlier this yr, President Trump directed his authorities to permit South Africans of European descent — significantly Afrikaners, who’re largely descended from Dutch settlers — to be resettled by way of the U.S. refugee program. 

The administration and its allies, together with South African-born billionaire Elon Musk, allege members of South Africa’s White minority have confronted discrimination by the nation’s post-apartheid authorities, together with by way of a controversial legislation that permits the federal government to take non-public land in some circumstances. 

The South African authorities has strongly denied any discrimination, and argues the land seizure legislation respects non-public property rights and solely targets land that is not used or does not serve the general public curiosity. Land possession has lengthy been a delicate situation in South Africa, which was dominated by its White minority underneath the apartheid system till the mid-Nineties.

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