White South African Who Came To U.S. After Trump Invite Has Been Detained For Months [View all]
An Afrikaner who came to the U.S. after President Donald Trump claimed the country would be a safe haven for people like him has been held in federal detention for months since his arrival.
Benjamin Schoonwinkel came to the U.S. in September, believing he would be protected after Trump’s many statements to that effect. But on arriving at an Atlanta airport, he was detained and handcuffed by the U.S. border agents whom Schoonwinkel told he was seeking asylum.
The South African man was transferred to a federal detention facility within two days and has remained there ever since. After leaving behind a life of relative comfort on the word of Trump, he now sleeps on a metal bunk bed.
“I never expected this to happen,” Schoonwinkel said in a video interview with The New York Times this month. “I expected a little bit of red tape.”
Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia has about 2,000 other occupants, most of whom were taken there as a result of Trump’s immigration crackdown. Schoonwinkel says the fact that he is white has perplexed his fellow detainees, most of whom are of Latin American descent.
“They all ask me, ‘What are you doing here?'” he said.
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