Foreign Ministry for Charter Airplanes that bring the first White South Africans to us as refugees

A group of white South Africans will arrive in Washington, DC, when an aircraft from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the United States can be resettled as refugees.

Your new settlement comes, although President Donald Trump suspended the Foreign Ministry's refugee recording program on the first day of his second term.

The planned arrival of the group as the first white South African who entered the United States as refugees was first reported by the New York Times on Friday.

On January 20, Trump signed an order in which the United States “is missing to include a large number of migrants and in particular refugees to their communities, which does not affect the availability of resources for Americans who protect their security and protects the corresponding assimilation of refugees.”

But after a public dispute with the South African President Cyril Ramaphosa a few weeks later, Trump gave a second arrangement that removed the help of South Africa and escaped an exception for “African refugees, described the breed-based discrimination against the government, including the racist-discriminatory country.” Racist property laws “and government The accused not to stop what he described as a “genocide” against white farmers.

The South African government expressed its concerns about the Trump government regarding the refugee status, which was granted to its citizens in a phone call between South African deputy minister Alvin Botes and the deputy US foreign minister Christopher Landau.

According to a South African selection of the call, Botes denied the position of the Trump government that the white South Africans are refugees and added that the “allegations of discrimination” are unfounded.

As part of the 1951 Refugee Convention, a refugee is defined as someone as someone with a “justified fear, for reasons of breed, religion, nationality, membership in a certain social group or a political opinion”.

The Foreign Ministry did not immediately answer a request for a comment about how the white South Africans fit in the definition of the convention or why this group priority from inquiries from other groups that flee from persecution in countries such as Sudan, the Republic of Congo or Myanmar.

Chrispin Phiri, a spokesman for the South Africa Ministry of International Relations and Cooperation, said in a statement on Friday: “It is most unfortunate that the resettlement of South Africans into the United States under the guise of” refugees “, which are questioned by the constitution of” refugees “, and the constitutional to question the constitution of the facts. the discrimination against ever occurred. “

On Friday, the deputy advisor of the White House and the advisor to the home protection, Stephen Miller, defended the resettlement of the Africans, even if refugees from other countries from the USA were excluded

“What happens in South Africa fits the textbook definition why the refugee program was created,” said Miller. “This is a racial persecution. The refugee program is not intended as a solution to global poverty, and historically it was used.”

Shawn Vandiver, the President of Afghanevac, a coalition based in San Diego that helps the Afghans in the United States to evacuate and return, said the Trump government was not “cherry pick that the victims earn”.

“If Stephen Miller suddenly supports the resettlement of refugees when it fits a political narrative -we do not pretend that the Afghan allies do not correspond to the same legal definition,” Vandiver told NBC News. “Real-based persecution is also religious, political and gender-specific violence in many places.