White South Africans Granted Refugee Status by Trump Leave for U.S.

A group of white South Africans facing discrimination in their homeland, including job denial and violence by racial targeting, departed on a U.S.-funded charter plane for the United States as refugees under President Trump’s new policy. This move comes despite Trump previously halting most refugee admissions from regions like Sudan and Congo but has created an expedited path for Afrikaners, a white ethnic minority that served as the leader during South Africa’s apartheid regime. The process typically takes years, yet only three months have passed since their classification as refugees and the first cohort is now arriving in America.