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Trump Administration offers refugee status for 49 white South Africans | Trump Administration

A group of 49 white South Africans left their home for the USA in a private charter aircraft on Sunday, which was offered by the Trump government as part of a new program announced in February.

The group, which included families and small children, was to arrive at Dulles International Airport on Monday morning on Monday morning on Monday morning, according to Colle Mbisi, a spokesman for the Ministry of Transport in South Africa.

They are the first African-one white minority in South Africa, which in February issued an executive regulation in which the black government of South Africa accused a racial discrimination against them and offered a program to offer their move to the USA.

The South African government said it was “completely wrong” that Africans are being persecuted.

The Trump administration quickly trained its applications, while holding other refugee programs and stopping the arrivals from Afghanistan, Iraq, most Africa south of the Sahara and other countries in a step in court.

Refugee groups have wondered why the white South Africans prioritize in front of people from countries written by war and natural disasters. Checking the refugee status in the USA often takes years.

According to the Trump government, the South African government is pursuing racist, anti-white politics through positive laws of action and a new law on expropriation of land, which says that they aim to target the land of Africans. The government says that these claims are based on misinformation and there is no racism against Africans and no country has been expropriated, although the controversial law was passed and the focus of criticism in South Africa is.

Trump himself mistakenly claimed to reporters South Africa's leaders were “land away, they confiscated land”.

As the Financial Times columnist Simon Kuper emphasized last year, some of the most influential voices around Trump are “fifty white men with formative experiences in apartheid in South Africa”.

“Elon Musk lived in the apartheid in South Africa until he was 17 years old. David Sacks, the risk capital, who has become a fundraiser for Donald Trump, and a troll of Ukraine, who was fifth years old, grew up in a South African diaspora family in Tennessee. And Namibia, in which the father dealt with the father in the Uuran mining.

South Africa also denies the US claims that Africans are targeted in some rural communities in racially motivated attacks. Instead, the South African government said that Africans – who are the descendants of Dutch and French colonial settlers – are “to the country's economically privileged”.

The first African refugees traveled on a flight that was operated by the charter company Omni Air International, based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, said Mbisi. They left Johannesburg, where they were accompanied by police officers and airport officials when they checked in.

The South African government said that there is no justification for being relocated, but it would not stop them and respect their freedom of choice.

It is expected to be welcomed by a delegation from the US government in Dulles, including the deputy foreign minister and the officials of the Ministry of Health and Human Services whose refugee office organized their resettlement.

The flight will be the first in a “much greater moving effort”, the deputy chief of staff at Weißen Haus, Stephen Miller, told reporters on Friday. Miller said that what happened with Africans in South Africa “fits” to the definition of the textbook, why the refugee program was created “.

The South Africans show Donald Trump in front of the US message in Pretoria, South Africa in February. Photo: Jérôme Delay/AP

“This is persecution based on a protected property-in this case. This is a racial persecution,” he said.

The HHS office for refugee settlements was ready to offer them support, including apartments, furniture and other household items as well as expenses such as food, clothing and diapers, said a document received by the Associated Press. The document states that the relocation of Africans was “a defined priority of the administration”.

There are around 2.7 million Africans among the 62 million inhabitants of South Africa, which is more than 80% black. They are only part of the country's white minority.

Many in South Africa are confused about the claims that Africans are pursued and meet the requirements that are to be relocated as refugees.

They are part of the everyday multirassical life of South Africa, with many successful managing directors and some as cabinet ministers and deputy ministers in the government. Their language is widespread and recognized as official language, and churches and other institutions that reflect African culture are known in almost every city and in the city.

The Trump government has criticized South Africa on several fronts. Trump's executive order in February reduced all US financial means to South Africa about what it said, his anti-white attitude and also accused them of entering into an anti-American foreign policy. It quoted the connections of South Africa to Iran and its step to submit a genocide proceedings against US allied Israel because of the Gaza Strip War, as examples that it takes “aggressive positions in the United States”.

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