Trump administration plans to admit more white South Africans as refugees this year
The plan would reverse a 7,500-person limit and spend about $100 million on the added admissions, according to the State Department.
- The State Department sent an emergency notice to Congress proposing to increase the annual U.S. refugee admissions ceiling from 7,500 to 17,500.
- The 10,000 newly requested spots are slated to be filled almost exclusively by white South Africans of Afrikaner descent, an expansion estimated to cost taxpayers roughly $100 million.
- Administration officials justified the sudden expansion by declaring an emergency situation due to escalating political hostility and a December raid by South African authorities on a U.S. refugee processing hub.
- The South African government fiercely denies all claims of systemic racial persecution against the white minority, accusing the White House of manipulating humanitarian policy for geopolitical purposes.
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Trump sees a racist persecution of South Africans of Burian descent in the country and wants to prioritize their resettlement in the USA. South Africa rejects the allegations
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BTAccording to a document to Congress, Trump will increase the refugee cap so that more Africans can come to the United States.
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Trump administration plans to admit more white South Africans as refugees this year
The Trump administration plans to admit up to 10,000 more white South African refugees into the United States, citing discrimination against Afrikaners.
Trump administration proposes increasing admission of White South African refugees: Report
President Donald Trump has defended the administration's proposals by claiming that “a genocide is taking place” in South Africa and that “White farmers are being brutally killed and their land confiscated”
Trump administration proposes welcoming thousands more Afrikaners to U.S. as refugees, citing "emergency"
The Trump administration is doubling down on efforts to resettle White Afrikaners from South Africa as refugees, proposing to increase the government's refugee cap to welcome thousands more of them, according to a plan obtained by CBS News.
The Trump administration proposed raising the refugee admissions cap for fiscal year 2026 to 17,500 for white South Africans, according to an emergency determination sent to Congress and obtained by CNN.
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