According to reports, the Trump administration is preparing to bring 54 Afrikaners (descendants of mostly Dutch settlers in South Africa; many are farmers) as refugees into the United States, despite blocking refugee admissions otherwise. A press conference is expected when the group arrives. States agreeing to take them in include Alabama, California, Idaho, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, New York, Nevada, North Carolina, and Iowa.
President Trump said in February that the minority white Afrikaners were “victims of unjust racial discrimination,” a point also made by Trump adviser Elon Musk, who was born in South Africa. South Africa’s foreign ministry said, “It is most regrettable that it appears that the resettlement of South Africans to the United States under the guise of being ‘refugees’ is entirely politically motivated and designed to question South Africa’s constitutional democracy.”
