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White South Africans Are Arriving in U.S. After Receiving Refugee Status

HeadlineMay 12, 2025

A group of 49 white South Africans are set to arrive today in the United States after being granted refugee status by the Trump administration, which has suspended refugee resettlement for almost everyone else in the world. The Trump administration claims white Afrikaners face racial discrimination, even though South Africa’s white minority still own the vast majority of farmland decades after the end of apartheid rule. The South African-born Trump adviser and multibillionare Elon Musk has even accused South Africa’s government of promoting what he calls “white genocide.” Musk’s grandfather moved his family to South Africa after embracing the country’s apartheid system.

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