This article originally appeared on PolitiFact.
President Donald Trump recently allowed 59 white Afrikaner farmers to resettle in the U.S. as refugees, saying they are losing their land in South Africa and are targets of genocide.
When a reporter asked May 12 why he created an expedited path for Afrikaners, Trump said, “Because they’re being killed. And we don’t want to see people be killed. But it’s a genocide that’s taking place that you people don’t want to write about.”
Trump added, “White farmers are being brutally killed and their land is being confiscated in South Africa.”
Trump has shared versions of this narrative since 2018, as have others in his orbit, including Elon Musk, a Trump adviser from South Africa.
Trump’s decision about resettling Afrikaners was a reversal; he suspended all U.S. refugee admissions after taking office.
The South African government criticized Trump’s Feb. 7 executive order on allowing Afrikaner resettlement in the U.S.
“It is ironic that the executive order makes provision for refugee status in the US for a group in South Africa that remains amongst the most economically privileged, while vulnerable people in the US from other parts of the world are being deported and denied asylum despite real hardship,” the statement said.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is slated to visit the White House on May 21.
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