67,000 white South Africans express interest in Trump’s plan to give them refugee status
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67,000 white South Africans express interest in Trump’s plan to give them refugee status

Associated Press  

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — The United States Embassy in South Africa said Thursday it received a list of more than 67,000 people interested in refugee status in the U.S. under President Donald Trump’s plan to relocate members of a white minority group he claims are victims of racial discrimination by their Black-led government. Trump issued an executive order on Feb. 7 cutting U.S. funding to South Africa and citing “government actions fueling disproportionate violence against racially disfavored landowners.” Trump’s executive order specifically referred to Afrikaners, a white minority group who are descendants of mainly Dutch and French colonial settlers who first came to South Africa in the 17th century. Trump’s decision to offer some white South Africans refugee status went against his larger policy to halt the U.S. refugee resettlement program. He told the Newzroom Afrika television channel that his organization had been inundated with requests for more information since Trump’s order and had contacted the State Department and the embassy in Pretoria “to indicate that we would like them to make a channel available for South Africans that would like to get more information and register for refugee status.” “That cannot be the responsibility of the chamber,” he said.

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