59 white South Africans have traveled to the United States and will be granted refugee status.
According to President Donald Trump, the nation’s Afrikaner minority’s refugee applications were processed more quickly because they were the targets of “racial discrimination.”
According to the South African government, the group was not subjected to any kind of persecution that would qualify them as refugees.
All other refugee admissions have been suspended by the Trump administration, including those for applicants from conflict areas. Thousands of people, many of whom were Black and Afghan refugees, had been refused asylum in the United States, according to Human Rights Watch, which called the action a cruel racial twist.
