African refugee status that arrive in the USA on Monday: NPR

Johannesburg, South Africa – The US government officially granted 54 Afrikaans South Africans, white descendants of mainly Dutch colonizers, refugee status, and it is expected that on Monday, May 12, in the United States, they have announced three sources with knowledge about the matter that they have NPR. The sources did not want to be named because they work for the US government and fear for their career.

The US authorities tried to arrange a charter flight on Thursday that would bring the South Africans to Dulles Airport near Washington, DC on Monday morning, but it is not clear whether they can land there. If this is not possible, you will be sent on commercial flights after the sources.

NPR has also seen an e -mail in which the plan was confirmed and that the newcomers will then be sent to their last destinations in various countries across the country.

The group is the first group of Africans accepted by the United States after President Donald Trump signed an execution regulations in February that offered them a possible resettlement.

“The State Secretary and the secretary of the homeland protection authority are taken in accordance with the law in order to prioritize the humanitarian relief, including approval and resettlement by the United States refugee program, for Africans in South Africa, the victims of unjustified racial discrimination,” signed on February 7. It also reduced the help to South Africa.

The sources said that a press conference was planned for the arrival of the group at Dulles Airport, in which officials from the departments of state and homeland security would take part in high -ranking civil servants.

The states that have agreed to take over the South Africans include: Colorado, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Washington, West Virginia, California, Idaho, Montana, North Carolina, Nevada and New York. Some of the people have granted refugee status in the USA family relationships, they said.

The source found that it is unusual that refugees are welcomed by US dignitaries at the airport, and said that the process of survey in South Africa and the granting of their refugee status was unusually fast.

The Africans received the P1 refugee status. According to the website of the US State Department, this is “referred to the program due to their circumstances and the obvious need to resettlement to the program due to their circumstances.

The South Africans now have a way to the US citizenship and are entitled to government benefits.

NPR announced a source that the International Organization for Migration of the United Nations had refused to be involved in the process. A spokesman for the IOM did not answer immediately on request for comments.

President Trump, his advisor Elon Musk and Foreign Minister Marco Rubio, born in South Africa, were all loud about what they say, the persecution of African von whom many farmers are in South Africa.

Trump has accused the South African government of “doing some terrible things” and said: “They confiscated land and in fact they do things that may be far worse than that.”

The South African government passed a new Land reform law at the beginning of this year, but so far no country has been confiscated, and the government says that a clause that “expropriation without compensation” allows is only used in rare cases.

The South African Ministry of International Relations also repelled Trump's allegations that Africans are discriminated against.

“It is ironic that the executive regulation in the USA provides a refugee status in the United States for a group in South Africa, which is one of the most economical privileged, while people in need of protection in the USA are deported from other parts of the world despite real difficulties,” said the department in February.
On his first day in office, Trump ordered the realignment of the “refugee recording program” and explained it effectively and explained: “The United States lacks the ability to include a large number of migrants and especially refugees in their communities that do not impair the availability of resources for Americans who protect their security.”