White South African refugees brought to US due to ‘government-sponsored racial discrimination': State Dept

FIRST ON FOX: The United States is acceptable to invited 49 white South African refugees who are victims of "government-sponsored radical discrimination" successful their homeland, according to the State Department. 

The U.S.-chartered formation touched down astatine Dulles Airport in Virginia connected Monday afternoon, when Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau welcomed the radical of Afrikaners. 

"Faced with undeniable government-sponsored radical favoritism successful South Africa, the archetypal Afrikaner refugees person arrived successful the United States," a elder State Department authoritative said successful an exclusive connection to Fox News Digital. 

"The U.S. Refugee Admissions Program was intended for situations similar this. Under President Trump's beardown leadership, the State Department has helped to supply a caller beingness for these refugees successful America, wherever they volition unrecorded successful freedom, safety, and opportunity."

TRUMP TO BRING WHITE AFRIKANERS TO US AS REFUGEES FROM SOUTH AFRICA, IN WAKE OF EXPROPRIATION LEGISLATION

Katia Beeden, beingness manager and campaigner for White South Africans who privation to use for U.S. exile status, poses for a representation astatine her residence successful Fish Hoek, Cape Town, South Africa, connected April 8, 2025. (REUTERS/Shafiek Tassiem/File Photo)

President Donald Trump archetypal initiated their resettlement with an enforcement bid entitled, "Addressing Egregious Actions of the Republic of South Africa," directing the State Department to bump up Afrikaners to the beforehand of the enactment for resettlement. 

South Africans are present capable to taxable a connection of involvement with the U.S. embassy successful Pretoria, which volition reappraisal the documents and interaction those who are eligible for the interrogation process. 

Trump has virtually halted the exile programme for those from war- and famine-ravaged nations similar Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo. White South Africans accidental they person been denied jobs and targeted for unit connected relationship of their race. 

Trump’s enforcement bid came successful effect to a instrumentality passed by the South African authorities allowing it to instrumentality backstage onshore for nationalist use, sometimes without compensation. Trump claimed the instrumentality would beryllium utilized to target South Africa’s White number Afrikaner group, descended from Dutch and different European settlers who arrived much than 300 years ago. 

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White South Africans supporting President Donald Trump and South African and U.S. tech billionaire Elon Musk stitchery successful beforehand of the U.S. Embassy successful Pretoria connected Feb. 15, 2025 for a demonstration. (MARCO LONGARI/AFP via Getty Images)

The South African overseas ministry said claims that White South Africans faced a "well-founded fearfulness of persecution" were "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," spokesperson Chrispin Phiri astatine the Ministry of International Relations and Cooperation added. 

The Afrikaners’ accomplishment comes arsenic Trump tries to propulsion backmost connected the radical authorities of South Africa, wherever advisor Elon Musk grew up during apartheid. 

President Donald Trump and South Africa were locked successful a diplomatic enactment implicit a onshore expropriation enactment that Washington, D.C., says volition pb to the takeover of White-owned farms. (MARCO LONGARI/AFP via Getty Images)

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The Afrikaner families traveling to the U.S. are mostly from farming communities. 

Since apartheid ended successful the 1990s, South Africa has sought to atone for segregationist policies, including with the onshore redistribution instrumentality signed successful January. The argumentation came aft a 2017 audit recovered that White South Africans owned three-quarters of individually-owned farms and cultivation property, portion making up 7% of the population. Black South Africans had been denied the close to ain premier cultivation onshore during the apartheid era.