Trump administration is welcoming 49 white South Africans as refugees

DULLES, Va. – The Trump medication is welcoming a tiny radical of white South Africans arsenic refugees connected Monday, saying they look favoritism and unit astatine home, which the country's authorities powerfully denies.

The determination to admit the 49 radical besides has raised questions from exile advocates astir why the radical should beryllium admitted erstwhile the Trump medication has suspended efforts to resettle radical who are fleeing warfare and persecution and person gone done years of vetting earlier coming to the United States.

The radical from South Africa arrived astatine Dulles International Airport extracurricular Washington connected a backstage charter level and was greeted by a authorities delegation.

President Donald Trump told reporters Monday that he’s admitting them arsenic refugees due to the fact that of the “genocide that’s taking place.” He said that successful post-apartheid South Africa, achromatic farmers are “being killed” and helium plans to code the contented with South African enactment adjacent week.

That characterization is powerfully denied by the South African authorities and has been disputed by experts successful the state and adjacent an Afrikaner group.

South Africa's authorities says the U.S. allegations that the achromatic number Afrikaners are being persecuted are “completely false,” the effect of misinformation and an inaccurate presumption of its country. It cited the information that Afrikaners are among the richest and astir palmy radical successful the state and said they are among “the astir economically privileged.”

Speaking astatine a concern league successful Ivory Coast, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said Monday that helium spoke with Trump by telephone precocious and told him that his medication had been fed mendacious accusation by groups who were casting whites arsenic victims due to the fact that of efforts to close the humanities wrongs of colonialism and South Africa’s erstwhile apartheid strategy of forced radical segregation, which oppressed the Black majority.

“I had a speech with President Trump connected the telephone and helium asked me, ‘What’s going connected down there?’ and I told him that what you are being told by those radical who are opposed to translation backmost successful South Africa is not true,” Ramaphosa said.

Ramaphosa said helium thought Trump “understood that.”

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Santana reported from Washington and Magome successful Johannesburg, and Gerald Imray successful Cape Town, South Africa, contributed to this report.

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