President Donald Trump continues to push the false claim that white South Africans are being persecuted by their country’s majority-Black government. Continuing to press debunked white “genocide” claims promoted by far-right figures, the Trump administration is seeking to admit even more white South African “refugees” into the United States, even as other refugees are blocked by Trump’s restrictive policies.
CBS News reported that the U.S. State Department is requesting Congress approve a plan to more than double the number of white South Africans admitted to the United States as refugees.
The proposal would more than double the total number of refugees admitted into the U.S., from 7,500 to 17,500. The additional 10,000 refugee spots would be given to Afrikaners, descendants of mostly Dutch settlers who dominated South Africa during the apartheid era and continue to own much of the country’s valuable farmland.
The State Department claims the new Afrikaner refugee plan, which would cost $100 million, is a necessary response to an “emergency refugee situation.”
The Trump administration is pointing to a December raid of a U.S. refugee processing center in South Africa as evidence of “escalating hostility” against Afrikaners, while the South African government says the raid targeted Kenyans working in the center illegally.
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