A group of 49 white South Africans departed their homeland Sunday for the United States on a private charter plane having been offered refugee status by the Trump administration under a new program announced in February.
The group, which included families and small children, was due to arrive at Dulles International Airport outside Washington on Monday morning local time, according to Collen Mbisi, a spokesperson for South Africa's transport ministry.
They are the first Afrikaners — a white minority group in South Africa — to be relocated after President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Feb. 7 accusing South Africa's Black-led government of racial discrimination against them and announcing a program to offer them relocation to America.
The South African government said it is "completely false" that Afrikaners are being persecuted.
The Trump administration has fast-tracked their applications while pausing other refugee programs, halting arrivals from Afghanistan, Iraq, most of sub-Saharan Africa, and other countries in a move being challenged in court.
Refugee groups have questioned why the white South Africans are being prioritized ahead of people from countries wracked by war and natural disasters. Vetting for refugee status in the U.S. often takes years.
The Trump administration says the South African government is pursuing racist, anti-white policies through affirmative action laws and a new land expropriation law it says targets Afrikaners' land. The government says those claims are based on misinformation and there is no racism against Afrikaners and no land has been expropriated, although the contentious law has been passed and is the focus of criticism in South Africa.
South Africa also denies U.S. claims that Afrikaners are being targeted in racially motivated attacks in some rural communities. Instead, the South African government said Afrikaners — who are the descendants of Dutch and French colonial settlers — are "amongst the most economically privileged" in the country.
The first Afrikaner refugees were traveling on a flight operated by the Tulsa, Oklahoma-based charter company Omni Air International, Mbisi said. They would fly to Dakar, Senegal and stop there to refuel before heading for Dulles.
They departed from OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg, where they were accompanied by police officers and airport officials when they checked in. Mbisi said they would have to be vetted by police to ensure there were no criminal cases or outstanding warrants against them before being allowed to leave.
The flight will be the first in a "much larger-scale relocation effort," White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller told reporters on Friday. Miller said that what was happening to Afrikaners in South Africa "fits the textbook definition of why the refugee program was created."
"This is persecution based on a protected characteristic — in this case, race. This is race-based persecution," he said.
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I know it sounds bad after 60+ years of indoctrination training, but I'm going say it anyway. It's time White people stood up for other White people.
ReplyDeleteTotally agree. For every other race, we've been told it's good to be proud of who you are but White people should be ashamed. I've NEVER been ashamed of being White and I NEVER will be. If it weren't for Whites the whole world would be living in mud huts and dragging women back to the cave by their hair. Europeans/Whites are the reason there is civilization and morals and proper culture.
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