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US South Africa Refugees\u00a9\u00a0J. Scott Applewhite<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) \u2014 A group of 49 white South Africans departed their homeland Sunday for the United States on a private charter plane\u00a0having been offered refugee status by the Trump administration<\/a>\u00a0under a new program announced in February.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Trump-Mideast\u00a9\u00a0Alex Brandon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The group, which included families and small children, was due to arrive at Dulles International Airport outside Washington on Monday morning local time, according to Collen Msibi, a spokesperson for South Africa’s transport ministry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They are the first Afrikaners \u2014 a white minority group<\/a> in South Africa \u2014 to be relocated after U.S. President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Feb. 7 accusing South Africa’s Black-led government of racial discrimination against them and announcing a program to offer them relocation to America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The South African government said it is \u201ccompletely false\u201d<\/a> that Afrikaners are being persecuted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Trump administration has fast-tracked their applications while pausing other refugee programs, halting arrivals from Afghanistan, Iraq, most of sub-Saharan Africa and other countries in a move being challenged in court<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Refugee groups have questioned why the white South Africans are being prioritized ahead of people from countries wracked by war and natural disasters. Vetting for refugee status in the U.S. often takes years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Trump administration says the South African government is pursuing racist, anti-white policies<\/a> through affirmative action laws and a new land expropriation law it says targets Afrikaners’ land. The government says those claims are based on misinformation and there is no racism against Afrikaners and no land has been expropriated, although the contentious law has been passed and is the focus of criticism in South Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

South Africa also denies U.S. claims that Afrikaners are being targeted in racially motivated attacks in some rural communities. Instead, the South African government said Afrikaners \u2014 who are the descendants of Dutch and French colonial settlers \u2014 are “amongst the most economically privileged” in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first Afrikaner refugees were traveling on a flight operated by the Tulsa, Oklahoma-based charter company Omni Air International, Msibi said. They would fly to Dakar, Senegal and stop there to refuel before heading for Dulles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They departed from OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg, where they were accompanied by police officers and airport officials when they checked in. Msibi said they would have to be vetted by police to ensure there were no criminal cases or outstanding warrants against them before being allowed to leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The South African government said there was no justification for them being relocated but said it wouldn’t stop them and respected their freedom of choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They are expected to be greeted at Dulles by a U.S. government delegation, including the deputy secretary of state and officials from the Department of Health and Human Services, whose refugee office has organized their resettlement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The flight will be the first in a \u201cmuch larger-scale relocation effort,\u201d White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller told reporters on Friday. Miller said that what was happening to Afrikaners in South Africa<\/a> “fits the textbook definition of why the refugee program was created.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is persecution based on a protected characteristic \u2014 in this case, race. This is race-based persecution,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The HHS Office for Refugee Resettlement was ready to offer them support, including with housing, furniture and other household items, and expenses like groceries, clothing, diapers and more, a document obtained by The Associated Press said. The document said the relocation of Afrikaners was “a stated priority of the Administration.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are around 2.7 million Afrikaners among South Africa\u2019s population of 62 million, which is more than 80% Black. They are only one part of the country’s white minority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many in South Africa are puzzled by claims that Afrikaners are persecuted and meet the requirements to be relocated as refugees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They are part of South Africa\u2019s everyday multi-racial life, with many successful business leaders and some serving in government as Cabinet ministers and deputy ministers. Their language is widely spoken and recognized as an official language, and churches and other institutions reflecting Afrikaner culture hold prominence in almost every city and town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Trump administration has criticized South Africa on several fronts. Trump’s February executive order cut all U.S. funding to South Africa over what it said was its anti-white stance and also accused it of pursuing an anti-American foreign policy. It cited South Africa’s ties with Iran and its move to lodge a genocide case against U.S. ally Israel<\/a> over the war in Gaza as examples of it taking “aggressive positions towards the United States.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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