White South Africans granted the Trump administration's refugee status in the USA

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A flight with a group of 59 white South Africans granted a refugee status in the United States at Washington Dulles Airport in Virginia on Monday, an official of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.

The deputy US Foreign Minister Christoper Landau and deputy secretary of the Ministry of Homeland Protection, Troy Edgar, welcomed the group at the airport.

Landau told the newcomers: “We respect what they have to do with the past few years.” He noticed that many of them were farmers and said they hopefully “bloom” in the United States.

The Trump administration not only moved, but to accelerate the processing of Africans as refugees due to suspected discrimination. At the same time, practically all other resettlements of refugees suspended it, also for people who flee from war and famine. Politicians have criticized the South African government and the lawyers of refugees.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Monday that those who go to the United States “do not match the definition of a refugee”.

Ramaphosa said he said Donald Trump that what the US President had been told about the persecution of the white minority was not true.

“The people who have fled are not persecuted, they are not persecuted, they are not treated badly,” he said in a panel in Africa CEO forum in Cote d'Ivoire, which was moderated by Larry Madowo by CNN.

“They supposedly leave because they do not want to accept the changes that take place in our country in accordance with our constitution,” said Ramaphosa.

Jeremy Konynddyk, the President of Refugees International, described the politicians “a racist immigration program that camouflaged as a refugee settlement, while real refugees are still stranded”.

“The main problem is to refuse to protect all other refugees from another place in the world,” he said. “There are millions of refugees around the world – people who had to flee from their home countries due to war or persecution – who have far more protection than any other in this group – of which none of them were forced to flee from South Africa.”

In comments on Friday, Stephen Miller, Senior White House official Stephen Miller, said that the arrivals this week are “the beginning of what will be a much greater movement”.

Since Trump started his second term, the United States has taken a number of punitive measures against South Africa, whose government not only came from Trump, but also from his Ally Elon Musk, who was born and grew up in the country.

Both Trump and Musk, the technical billionaire, have claimed that white farmers in the country are discriminated against under Land reform policy that the government of South Africa is necessary to remedy the inheritance of apartheid.

South Africa adopted the expropriation law in January and tried to reverse the legacy of apartheid, which caused the major differences in landscaping in the majority of the white population of the majority and the minority.

Under apartheid, not white South Africans were violently expropriated from their country for the benefit of the white. Today, about three decades after the official termination of the racial regulation in the country, black South Africans, who make up over 80% of the population of 63 million inhabitants, have around 4% of the private country.

The expropriation law enables the government of South Africa to take land and redistribute it – without obligation to pay compensation in some cases – if the attack is “fair and fair and in the public interest”.

In February, Trump suspended help to South Africa and claimed the discrimination against white farmers. In the same execution regulations, the President said that the United States would “promote the resettlement of African refugees, escaped the discrimination against the state -funded racial -based discrimination, including racist discriminatory property confiscations”.

At the beginning of this month, Trump said in a contribution on social media: “Every farmer (with the family!) From South Africa, who wants to flee from this country for security reasons, is invited to the United States with a quick path to citizenship.”

Larry Madowo from CNN and Nimi Princewell contributed to the reporting.