An airplane carrying boxes from White South Africans arrived on Monday at Dulles International Airport, said a state department official, after the Trump administration granted them refugee status in the United States.
The group, which includes families with children, was received at the Airport of the DC area by US officials, including the Secretary of State for the State of the State, Christopher Landau, and Deputy Secretary of National Security Troy Edgar. Landau told journalists that the group has faced “atrocious discrimination” in South Africa, that the country’s government has denied.
Landau said the newcomers were “carefully examined” in South Africa before arrival. They He left the capital city of the country Or Johannesburg through a charter plane on Sunday.
Earl this year, President Trump Directed his government To allow European ancestry South Africans, particularly Afrikaners, who descend largely from Dutch settlers, to be resettled through the United States refugee program.
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“South Africa is confiscating land and treating certain kinds of people very badly,” Trump wrote about Truth Social in February.
The South African government has strongly denied any discrimination, and argues that the law of land seizure respects private property rights and only addresses the land that is not used or not is not the public interest. The property of the Earth has long been a delicate issue in South Africa, which was governed by its white minority under the apartheid system until the mid -1990s.
“It is ironic that the executive order planned for refugee status in the United States for a group in South Africa that remains among the most economically privileged people, while vulnerable people in the United States from other parts of the Hardeh world despite,” said Southe Deposed and Aslify, “international relations and cooperation said in an February statement.
Landau also cited attacks on South African farmers in recent years, saying that newcomers have faced “atrocious and specific threats.” The South African government argues that attacks in the country’s rural agricultural communities are not racially directed and are part of the problem of broader crimes in South Africa.
The Trump administration has also faced the South African government about foreign policy, including its criticism or Israel. Trump signed an executive order in February ordering his government to stop South Africa.
The South Africans moved through the refugee process In an unusually fast clip, arriving in the United States after a few months, just although the process often takes years.
They also arrived in the United States despite a broader effort of the Trump administration to suspend the refugee intake program, a measure that has attracted judicial challenges.
The refugee group refuses to help reassure South Africans
The Federal Government is generally based on non -profit to help resettle refugees in the United States, but at least one group, episcopal migration ministries, said Monday that it will not help with South African arrivals.
Episcopal Bishop Sean Rowe said the Government informed the group, which receives federal subsidies, which would be expected to help South Africans. The group opted against assistance and instead will end its work with the government, he said, citing the “firm commitment of the group with racial justice and reconciliation.”
“It has a painful leg to see a group of refugees, selected in a very unusual way, to receive a preferential treatment about many others that have a bone waiting in the conditions of the refugee fields for years,” Rowe said in a statement.
Some other refugee resettlement groups have indicated that they are willing to work with South Africans.
The CEO of the World Church Service, Rick Santos, criticized the Government for restricting most of the other refugee admissions, but said the group “remains committed to serving all eligible refugees who seek safe security in the United States, including the influx of Aphroding in” “in” in “” in Afrooding in “” in Afriko Associated Press. “