{"id":16375,"date":"2025-03-30T18:27:38","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T18:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/mission-south-africa-how-trump-is-offering-white-afrikaners-refugee-status\/"},"modified":"2025-03-30T18:27:38","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T18:27:38","slug":"mission-south-africa-how-trump-is-offering-white-afrikaners-refugee-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/mission-south-africa-how-trump-is-offering-white-afrikaners-refugee-status\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Mission South Africa\u2019: How Trump Is Offering White Afrikaners Refugee Status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Almost immediately after taking office, President Trump began shutting down refugee resettlement programs, slashing billions of dollars in funding and making it all but impossible for people from scores of countries to seek haven in the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">With one exception.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Trump administration has thrown open the doors to white Afrikaners from South Africa, establishing a program called \u201cMission South Africa\u201d to help them come to the United States as refugees, according to documents obtained by The New York Times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Under Phase One of the program, the United States has deployed multiple teams to convert commercial office space in Pretoria, the capital of South Africa, into ad hoc refugee centers, according to the documents. The teams are studying more than 8,200 requests expressing interest in resettling to the United States and have already identified 100 Afrikaners who could be approved for refugee status. The government officials have been directed to focus particularly on screening white Afrikaner farmers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The administration has also provided security escorts to officials conducting the interviews of potential refugees.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">By mid-April, U.S. officials on the ground in South Africa will \u201cpropose long-term solutions, to ensure the successful implementation of the president\u2019s vision for the dignified resettlement of eligible Afrikaner applicants,\u201d according to one memo sent from the embassy in Pretoria to the State Department in Washington this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The administration\u2019s focus on white Afrikaners comes as it effectively bans the entry of other refugees \u2014 including about 20,000 people from countries like Afghanistan, Congo and Syria who were approved before Mr. Trump took office. In court filings about those other refugees, the administration has argued that core functions of the refugee program had been \u201cterminated\u201d after the president\u2019s ban, so it did not have the resources to take in any more people.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThere\u2019s no subtext and nothing subtle about the way this administration\u2019s immigration and refugee policy has obvious racial and racist overtones,\u201d said Vanessa C\u00e1rdenas, the executive director of America\u2019s Voice. \u201cWhile they seek to single out Afrikaners for special treatment, they simultaneously want us to think mostly Black and brown vetted newcomers are dangerous despite their background checks and all evidence to the contrary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The program also inserts the United States into a charged debate inside South Africa, where some members of the white Afrikaner minority have begun a campaign to suggest that they are the true victims in post-apartheid South Africa. Under apartheid, a white minority government discriminated against South Africans of color, and brutality and violence flourished, leading to torture, disappearances and murder.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">There have been murders of white farmers, the focus of the Afrikaner grievances, but police statistics show they are not any more vulnerable to violent crime than others in the country. In South Africa, more than 90 percent of the population comes from racial groups persecuted by the racist, apartheid regime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In a statement, the State Department said it was focused on resettling Afrikaners who have been \u201cvictims of unjust racial discrimination.\u201d The agency confirmed that it had begun interviewing applicants and said they would need to pass \u201cstringent background and security checks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The decision to unleash resources for Afrikaners just starting the refugee process, while stonewalling court demands to process those fleeing other countries who have already been cleared for travel, risks upending an American refugee program that has been the foundation of the United States\u2019 role for the vulnerable, according to resettlement officials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe government clearly has the ability to process applications when it wants to,\u201d said Melissa Keaney, a senior supervising attorney for the International Refugee Assistance Project, the group representing plaintiffs trying to restart refugee processing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump signed an executive order suspending refugee admissions on his first day in office, arguing that welcoming refugees could compromise resources for Americans. He added that future versions of the program should prioritize \u201conly those refugees who can fully and appropriately assimilate into the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A federal judge in Seattle later temporarily blocked that executive order and instructed the administration to restore the refugee program. But the Trump administration still cut contracts with organizations that assist those applying for refugee status overseas, reducing the infrastructure needed to support people seeking refuge in the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">An appeals court ruled last week that the administration must admit those thousands of people who were granted refugee status before Mr. Trump entered office, but also declined to stop him from halting the admission of new refugees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Justice Department has for weeks deflected demands from refugee advocates accusing the administration of sidestepping the court order and delaying the process of almost every refugee previously granted a ticket to come to the United States. The Trump administration has said it has allowed a limited number of refugees who were vetted to enter the country, although the State Department declined to provide a number.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Lawyers for the Justice Department have argued both that the administration now lacks resources to help thousands of refugees and that in restarting the program the government reserves the right to \u201cdo so in a manner that reflects administration priorities.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump has made clear what those priorities were when he created a refugee carve-out for white Afrikaners. Mr. Trump at the time accused the South African government of confiscating the land of white Afrikaners, backing a long-held conspiracy theory about the mistreatment of white South Africans in the post-apartheid era.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump was referring to a recent policy signed into law by the South African government, known as the Expropriation Act. It repeals an apartheid-era law and allows the government in certain instances to acquire privately held land in the public interest, without paying compensation, only after a justification process subject to judicial review.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump and his allies have for years echoed the grievances of Afrikaners. During his first term, Mr. Trump directed the State Department to investigate land seizures and \u201cthe large-scale killing of farmers.\u201d Elon Musk, who was born in South Africa but is not of Afrikaner descent, has also <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1687681526840872961\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">falsely claimed<\/a> that white farmers in South Africa were being killed every day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Despite the claims, white people own half of South Africa\u2019s land while making up just 7 percent of the country\u2019s population. Police statistics do not show that they are any more vulnerable to violent crime than other people in the nation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ernst Roets, the former executive director of the Afrikaner Foundation, which lobbies for international support of the interests of Afrikaners, said many of his peers felt seen by Mr. Trump.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-9\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But he said the creation of the new refugee program had elicited debate among Afrikaners. Many do not want to leave their home, Mr. Roets said, but want the United States to back their efforts to claim \u201cself-governance\u201d in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI don\u2019t know anyone \u2014 no one I\u2019m aware of \u2014 that plans to move to America,\u201d Mr. Roets said. \u201cPeople who want to come to America, we would support that. If people want to relocate to America, the farmers or Afrikaners, we think they would make good Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThere\u2019s a good fit,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Zumbe Baruti, a Congolese refugee living in South Carolina, said he spent decades in a refugee camp in Africa waiting for his turn to be accepted.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-10\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThose white Africans are allowed to enter the United States, but Black Africans are denied entry to the United States,\u201d Mr. Baruti, 29, said in Swahili. He said the pivot away from refugees who have waited in camps for years and to Afrikaners was a form of \u201cdiscrimination.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-11\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Baruti, a member of the Bembe people in the Democratic Republic of Congo, fled ethnic violence in the nation when he was a child. He was granted refugee status in 2023, but his wife and three children \u2014 the oldest 6 years old and the youngest just 2 \u2014 had yet to clear security vetting. He entered the United States two years ago, focused on getting a job, saving money and immediately applying for his family to join him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">When he entered, he said he was told by advisers helping him with his application that his family would most likely join him in two years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He said that seemed unlikely as Mr. Trump turned his focus elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cRegarding my family,\u201d Mr. Baruti said, \u201chope has diminished.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     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