First Group Of White South Africans Arrive in US Under Trump Admin’s Refugee Plan

ER Editor: Our most recent title on this topic from April 30, which contains additional links, including to the 2018 documentary Farmlands by Lauren Southern —

White Afrikaners lining up to accept Trump’s offer of asylum

And from February of this year —

Trump To Suspend Funding To South Africa Over Land Expropriation

Some additional tweets —

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The Guardian:

Episcopal church says it won’t help resettle white South Africans granted refugee status

The move marks the end of a ministry-government partnership that, for nearly four decades, has served nearly 110,000 refugees from countries, including Ukraine, Myanmar and Congo, Rowe said.

It’s not the first high-profile friction between the Episcopal church and the Trump administration. Bishop Mariann Budde of Washington DC drew Trump’s anger in January at an inaugural prayer service in which she urged “mercy” on those fearing his actions, including migrants and LGBTQ+ children. (ER: Yes, this political entrapment of Trump was in very poor taste in our opinion.)

The Anglican church of Southern Africa includes churches in South Africa and neighboring countries. It was a potent force in the campaign against apartheid in the 1980s and 1990s, an effort for which the late archbishop Desmond Tutu received the Nobel peace prize in 1984.

Another faith-based refugee agency, Church World Service, says it is open to serving the South African arrivals.

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First Group Of White South Africans Depart For US Under Trump Admin’s Refugee Plan

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Dozens of white South Africans departed their country for the United States on May 11 after being granted refugee status under the Trump administration’s new admission program.

About 49 Afrikaners – a white ethnic minority in South Africa – boarded a chartered flight bound for the District of Columbia, which will then fly to Texas, South African Transport Department spokesperson Collen Msibi said.

“One of the conditions of the permit was to ensure that they were vetted in case one of them has a criminal issue pending,” Msibi was quoted as saying by Reuters.

Aldgra Fredly reports via The Epoch Times, that this marked the first group of Afrikaners relocated to the United States under a refugee admissions program initiated under President Donald Trump’s Feb. 7 executive order that allows the resettlement of Afrikaner refugees “escaping government-sponsored race-based discrimination.”

That executive order was issued after South African President Cyril Ramaphosa signed the Expropriation Act into law in January, allowing the expropriation or redistribution of certain unused land. The law aims to address racial disparities in land ownership that stemmed from South Africa’s former apartheid system.

The nation’s government noted that special conditions must be met before expropriating land, including that it has had longtime informal occupants, is unused and owned purely for speculation, or was left abandoned.

In his executive order, Trump stated that Ramaphosa’s government has imposed countless policies “designed to dismantle equal opportunity in employment, education, and business, and hateful rhetoric and government actions fueling disproportionate violence against racially disfavored landowners.”

South Africa’s government has rejected the claims and called Washington’s move to resettle South Africans as refugees “entirely politically motivated.”

“We reiterate that allegations of discrimination are unfounded,” it stated.

“Moreover, even if there are allegations of discrimination, it is our view that these do not meet the threshold of persecution required under domestic and international refugee law.”

However, the South African government said that it will not block departures of citizens who seek to leave the country, provided they comply with domestic laws.

Speaking to reporters on May 9, White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller said the current situation facing Afrikaners in South Africa amounts to “race-based persecution.”

“What was happening in South Africa fits the textbook definition of why the refugee program was created,”Miller said.

“This is persecution based on a protected characteristic. In this case, race.”

Trump announced in March that the United States would cut all federal funding to South Africa over its expropriation laws and pledged to resettle white South African farmers affected by the law.

The White House stated in a summary of Trump’s executive order on Feb. 10 that the United States will stop aid and assistance if South Africa “continues to support bad actors on the world stage and allows violent attacks on innocent disfavored minority farmers.”

The Epoch Times has reached out to the State Department for comment but did not receive a response by publication time.

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