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Trump: His refugee policy for white South Africans
In the middle of a far -reaching tightening of the Immigration And the Trump government plans to plan refugee policy loudly several News agenciesWhite South Africans on Monday as Refugees to bring to the USA. You should now get a way to American citizenship.
Refugee program exposed at the beginning of the second term
This step is the first of a “much more extensive resettlement measure,” said Stephen Miller, deputy chief of staff of the White House, on Friday to reporters. The Trump government had suspended the refugee settlement program on the first day of its second term. And frozen the funds for resettlement agencies. In Uganda, for example, these cuts mean that the food rations for one million people were deleted.
Planned resettlement of white South Africans
“What in South Africa happens exactly the definition of why the refugee program was launched ”, said Miller. “This is a persecution due to the skin color. The refugee program is not intended as a solution to the worldwide poverty. And historically it has never been used.” “The Lever” reported first about the news that white South Africans could be admitted to the United States as refugees.
First numbers and details
The United States will provide about 50 white South Africans help with accommodation, supply with food and other needs. This emerges from a document that of Associated Press was checked. The Trump government could Accept up to 1,000 Africans this year. You will receive emergency aid from the Federal Office for Refugee settlement. A department of the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs.
Miller: “Persecution due to the skin color”
In February the Trump government issued one Ordinanceaccording to which the United States would “promote the resettlement of African refugees who flee from state -funded discrimination due to their breed”. The White House also published one Ordinanceaccording to which the United States would only accept refugees who can “integrate completely and appropriately”.
Reactions and political classification
Elon Musk comments on X
Elon Muskthe head of the so -called Ministry of Government Efficiency, was born in South Africa. He has in a post on X explained, The fact that a political group promotes a “genocide of white” in the country is an assertion that has been largely rejected.
Institute of Security Studies contradicts
“Right -wing extremist groups in South Africa are actively going to the USA and spread this idea of a genocide of whites. Because of course a high murse rate, Gareth Newham, head of the Justice and Violence Prevention program at the Institute of Security Studies, explained in South Africa. Opposite NBC News in February. White people are probably the goal. Because they are relatively wealthy, he said.
The background to the Trump government’s claims is recently adopted in South Africa Expropriation lawthat the government allows the government to confiscate land. Thirty years after the end of apartheid, about seven percent of South Africans are white. Mainly descendants of Dutch settlers. But they own Almost three quarters of the country. So far, no country has been confiscated.
South Africa is officially responding
The South African government published one on Friday Explanationin which they showed the idea that Africans were discriminated against, as “unfounded”.
Criticism of the US measure
“It is extremely unfortunate that the resettlement of South Africans into the United States under the guise of ‘refugee status’ is apparently only politically motivated. And aims to question the constitutional democracy of South Africa. A country that actually suffered real persecution under apartheid and tirelessly worked on such discrimination again Coming, ”said Chrispin Phiri, spokesman for the Ministry of International Relations and Cooperation.
Special treatment for white refugees
It often takes years before you as a refugee receive approval for entry into the United States. But the Africans only had to wait a few months. The status of other refugees is uncertain. Last Monday had A judge that the Trump government has to accept 12,000 refugees who had previously been denied entry.
Hias warns of unequal treatment
“We are deeply worried about the government that the government of thousands of other refugees who had already been from months ago [Heimatschutzministerium] had been approved, the door struck in front of the nose. Although courts had instructed the White House to let many of them let in, ”said Mark Hetfield, President of the Jewish aid organization Hias, in one Explanation. “It’s just not right.”