The first group of white South Africans arrives in the USA after Trump grants the refugee status | Trump Administration

The first group of white South Africans granted the status of refugee status from Donald Trump's government that came in the United States in South Africa in the United States when the US President explained the African victims of a “genocide”.

The Africans, a minority that mainly came from Dutch colonists, were brought to Washington, Deputy Deputy State Minister Christopher Landau and the deputy secretary of home protection, Troy Edgar, with many flags.

Reuters reported that the group counted 59 adults and children, citing an official of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, while associated press said there were 49.

At Dulles Airport Landau told the assembled white South Africans: “It is an honor for us to receive them here today. I am so happy to see you in your hands with our flag.

He called the story of his family and said: “My own father was born in Europe and had to leave his country when Hitler came in. We respect what they had to do with the last few years.”

He added: “We send a clear message that the United States really reject the outrageous persecution of people due to the breed in South Africa.”

On the same day, the group ended in the USA, Trump's government also ended legal protection that had temporarily protected Afghans from deportation, citing an improved security situation in the country, which was ruled by the Taliban.

A consideration for the relocation of Africans, not the Afghans, was that “they could easily be accepted into our country,” Landau told reporters at the airport.

Trump suspended the US refugee comparison program in January and had more than 100,000 people approved for the resettlement of refugees. Then, in February, he signed an executive regulation in which the officials were instructed to grant Africans the refugee status, whose guide ruled during apartheid while he was violently suppressed the black majority.

“It is a genocide that takes place,” said Trump reporters in the White House when he was asked why white South Africans were prioritized elsewhere on the continent of victims of famine and war, which repeated a right-wing extremist conspiracy theory, which was also reinforced by his Millional-Adviser Elon Musk, born in South Africa.

Trump added that the Africans' race “makes no difference for me”. He said the leaders of South Africa traveled next week to meet him, but he would not take part in the G20 leader in Johannesburg in November, unless the “situation is supervised”.

At a conference in the Ivory Coast, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said that he had informed Trump by telephone that he had received false information about the discriminated white South African, from people who do not resolve the government's efforts to remedy the racist inequalities that exist three decades after the end of the white minority.

“We believe that the American government has the wrong end to the stick here, but we will continue to speak to them,” he said.

White South Africans usually have 20 times the wealth of black people, as can be seen from an article in the review of the political economy. The black South African unemployment rate is 46.1% compared to 9.2% for white.

Laura Thompson Osuri, Managing Director of Homes Not Borders, a non -profit organization in the area of ​​refugees, stood with a sign with a sign with reading: “Refugee nones. A person who was forced to leave his country due to persecution, war or violence. Africans are not refugees.”

Osuri said about Trump's politics: “It should be shown: 'Look at us. We greet people as long as they look like we look.'”

Democrats also condemned the relocation of the Africans. The Senator of Maryland, Chris van Hollen, said to a Thinktank event: “The Trump government to observe as I call its global apartheid policy … is just an unspeaked insult to our country's idea.”

In the meantime, the Bischofskirche said that it ended her decades of work with the US government, which supported refugees after being asked to colonize the white South Africans again, citing their “commitment to racial justice and reconciliation”.