Trump administration welcomes white South Africans upon arrival

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Trump administration welcomes white South Africans upon arrival

A group of 49 white South Africans were warmly greeted by the Trump administration upon their arrival at Dulles Airport near Washington, D.C., on Monday after they were granted refugee status as victims of racial discrimination.

In a jarring departure from the Trump administration’s posture towards all other refugees, Deputy Secretary of State Chris Landau personally welcomed the group, saying he respected “what you had to deal with” and “the long tradition of your people.”

“Welcome to the United States of America. It is such an honor for us to receive you here today,” Landau told the group, many of them holding American flags.

Hours after he took office, President

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, effectively ending a pathway for refugees fleeing violence and persecution to secure asylum in the U.S. and choking off all funding for refugee resettlement.

“I hope and I trust that the American people have very open hearts. We are a very accepting, we’re a very friendly, welcoming people,” Landau told the Afrikaners.

The Trump administration granted the group refugee status on the basis of what it calls anti-white discrimination from South Africa’s government. Trump

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to be resettled as refugees in a February executive order that took aim at a law enacted year that authorized the South African government to seize property. It also criticized South Africa for leading the United Nations case accusing Israel of committing genocide against Palestinians in its war with ******.

South Africa has called the accusations “unfounded” and said they do not meet the “threshold of persecution required under domestic and international refugee law.”

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, who is South African, has accused the government of discriminating against its white population since before he joined the Trump administration as a special government employee and head of the Department of Government Efficiency.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa

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authorizing the government to seize land without compensation the owner in January. Decades after the country’s racist apartheid system ended, its white ********* still owns a majority of land.

Laura Thompson Osuri, the executive director of Homes Without Borders, was among three protesters demonstrating near the airport’s check-in counters as the South Africans arrived on Monday afternoon. “Afrikaners are not refugees,” read her protest sign.

“They’re letting in these Afrikaners as quote, unquote refugees, while tens of thousands…that are actual refugees are not allowed to enter,” Osuri said.

Osuri, whose organization helps refugees resettle in the Washington area, called admitting the Afrikaners as the Trump administration has shut down channels for refugees from other countries “absurd.”

“It’s just performative,” she said. “They’re not fleeing war, violence, persecution.”

U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau and Deputy Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Troy Edgar meet with the first group of white South Africans granted refugee status for being deemed victims of racial discrimination under U.S. President Trump’s Refugee plan, after the South Africans arrived at Dulles International Airport, in Dulles, Virginia, U.S., May 12, 2025. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

Trump’s shutdown of all refugee admissions – except for white South Africans – has drawn heavy criticism from humanitarian organizations.

The Episcopal Church’s migration ministry said on Monday it would end all its refugee resettlement grant agreements after the Trump administration asked it to help resettle the Afrikaners.

“It has been painful to watch one group of refugees, selected in a highly unusual manner, receive preferential treatment over many others who have been waiting in refugee camps or dangerous conditions for years,” Sean Rowe, the ministry’s presiding bishop, said in a

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