The Trump administration is chartering a plane to bring the first white South Africans to the U.S. as refugees
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/trump-administration-charter-plane-first-white-south-africans-refugees-rcna205971The Trump administration is chartering a plane to bring the first white South Africans to the U.S. as refugees
President Donald Trump signed an executive order in February granting an exception for Afrikaners after suspending the U.S. refugee admissions program.
May 9, 2025, 7:18 PM CDT
By Abigail Williams and Gabe Gutierrez
A group of white South Africans will be arriving in Washington, D.C., on Monday by way of a State Department-chartered plane to be resettled in the U.S. as refugees, a source familiar with their arrival told NBC News.
Their resettlement comes even though President Donald Trump suspended the State Department’s refugee admissions program through an executive order on the first day of his second term.
The group’s scheduled arrival as the first white South Africans to enter the U.S. as refugees was first reported by The New York Times on Friday.
On Friday, White House deputy chief of staff and homeland security adviser Stephen Miller defended the resettling of the Afrikaners even as refugees from other countries were barred from the U.S.
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The administration announced another exception to the refugee program allowing the offspring of the Nazis who fled to Argentina after the fall of the Third Reich to get preferred immigration admission to the US.
“These people have been persecuted and discriminated agsinst for to long,” Stephen Miller said.
More Not-Sees from South Africa!
as opposed th the dignified transfer of the remains of military dead.
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