Trump to bring white Afrikaners to US as refugees from South Africa, in wake of expropriation legislation

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The Trump medication plans to bring achromatic Afrikaners from South Africa to the United States arsenic refugees starting adjacent week aft saying they are "victims of unjust radical discrimination."

The accomplishment of much than 2 twelve Afrikaners, apt connected Monday, comes arsenic the medication has suspended most exile resettlement programs.

"What’s happening successful South Africa fits the textbook explanation of wherefore the exile programme was created," Stephen Miller told reporters connected Friday. "This is persecution based connected a protected diagnostic — successful this case, race. This is race-based persecution."

The South African authorities has approved authorities which, nether immoderate circumstances, allows for expropriation of onshore without compensation.

He said the archetypal question of refugees would beryllium portion of a "much larger-scale relocation effort."

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The Afrikaners are expected to beryllium met by a authorities delegation, including the lawman Secretary of State and officials from the Department of Health and Human Services, according to documents obtained by the Associated Press.

Amid his migration crackdown, Trump said successful January the U.S. volition lone admit refugees who "can afloat and appropriately assimilate."

The State Department said: "The U.S. Embassy successful Pretoria has been conducting interviews and processing pursuant to President Trump’s Executive Order connected Addressing Egregious Actions of the Republic of South Africa. The Department of State is prioritizing information for U.S. exile resettlement of Afrikaners successful South Africa who are victims of unjust radical discrimination."

Afrikaners are chiefly descended from aboriginal Dutch settlers successful South Africa.

South Africa’s authorities has criticized the Trump administration’s effort, saying it doesn’t admit the country’s past of colonialism and apartheid.

The refugees volition beryllium sent to states similar Minnesota, Idaho and Alabama.

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Demonstrators be a protestation successful enactment of U.S. President Donald Trump's stance against what helium calls racist laws, onshore expropriation, and workplace attacks successful February. (Reuters/Siphiwe Sibeko)

In March, Secretary of State Marco Rubio expelled the South African ambassador successful the U.S., calling him a "race-baiting" person who hates America and President Donald Trump aft helium said the commander-in-chief is starring a planetary achromatic supremacist movement.

Rubio besides boycotted a G20 overseas ministers gathering successful Johannesburg successful March.

South Africa's overseas ministry has said the accusations of radical favoritism against Afrikaners are "unfounded."

"It is astir regrettable that it appears that the resettlement of South Africans to the United States nether the guise of being ‘refugees’ is wholly politically motivated and designed to question South Africa’s law democracy; a state which has successful information suffered existent persecution nether apartheid regularisation and has worked tirelessly to forestall specified levels of favoritism from ever occurring again," the overseas ministry said successful a statement.

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The South African authorities said it wouldn't artifact anyone from leaving the country, but questioned their presumption arsenic refugees.

The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.

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