Immediately after assuming his post, President Trump began closing the refugee resettlement programs, which reduced billions of dollars in financing and made it impossible for people from dozens of countries to search for a haven in the United States.
Except for one.
The Trump administration has opened the doors to the Egg African from South Africa, creating a program called “Mission South Africa” to help them come to the United States as refugees, according to the documents obtained by the New York Times.
Under the first phase of the program, the United States has published multiple teams to convert the commercial office spaces in Pretoria, the capital of South Africa, to the dedicated refugee centers, according to the documents. The teams are studying more than 8,200 requests that express his interest in resettlement of the United States and have already set 100 African to obtain a refugee position. Government officials were particularly directed to focus on examining farmers from the egg Afrikaner.
The administration also provided security escorts to officials who are interviewing potential refugees.
By mid -April, US officials on the ground in South Africa will suggest “long -term solutions, to ensure successful implementation of the president’s vision of its generous resettlement of qualified African applicants,” according to one memo sent from the embassy in Pretoria to the Foreign Ministry in Washington this month.
The administration’s focus on the white Africans comes because it is already prohibited to enter other refugees – including about 20,000 people from Afghanistan, Congo and Syria who were ready to travel to the United States before Mr. Trump took office. In the court files about these other refugees, the administration argued that the basic functions of the refugee program were “terminated” after the president’s ban, so it did not have the resources necessary to take any other people.
“There is no sub -text and nothing accurate about the way the immigration and refugee policy in this administration has” clear racist and racist tones, “said Vanessa Karradinas, Executive Director of America. The opposite.
The program also includes the United States in a charged discussion inside South Africa, where some members of the White Fryanner minority began a campaign indicating that they are the real victims in South Africa after the apartheid. During the era of apartheid, a white minority government flourished against South Africa of colors, brutality and violence, which led to torture, disappearance and killing.
There were murders of white farmers and the concentration of Africans’s grievances, but police statistics show that they are not more vulnerable to violent crime than others in the country. In South Africa, more than 90 percent of the population comes from the ethnic groups persecuted by the racist separation system.
In a statement, the Foreign Ministry said it was focusing on the resettlement of African who were “victims of non -fair racial discrimination.” The agency confirmed that it had started interviewing with the applicants and said that they would need to pass a “strict background and security checks.”
The decision to unleash the resources for Afrikanis who have just started in the refugee process, while the Sabbag Court calls for the treatment of those who have already escaped from other countries who have been disinfected to travel, and risk raising the American refugee program, which was the basis for the United States’ role for the United States, according to resettlement officials.
“It is clear that the government has the ability to handle requests when it wants it,” said Melissa Kenny, a lawyer for an supervision of the international refugee assistance project.
Mr. Trump has signed an executive order to suspend admission to refugees on his first day in his post, on the pretext that welcoming refugees could offer resources to the Americans. He added that future versions of the program should give priority “only those refugees who can fully absorb them in an appropriate manner in the United States.”
A federal judge in Seattle later prevented this executive order temporarily and ordered the administration to restore the refugee program. But the Trump administration still cuts contracts with organizations that help those who are applying for refugees abroad, reducing the infrastructure needed to support people looking for a shelter in the United States.
The Court of Appeal ruled last week that the administration must recognize that thousands of people were granted a refugee situation before Mr. Trump entered his post, but he also refused to prevent him from stopping the acceptance of the new refugees.
For weeks, the Ministry of Justice has deviated demands from refugee defenders who are accused of managing the court’s order and delaying the process of almost every refugee granting a ticket to reach the United States. The Trump administration said it allowed a limited number of refugees examined to enter the country, although the Foreign Ministry refused to submit a number.
The lawyers of the Ministry of Justice have argued that the administration is now lacking resources to help thousands of refugees and that in restarting the program, the government reserves the right to “do this in a way that reflects the priorities of the administration.”
Mr. Trump has made clear what these priorities were when he created a refugee bus for the eggs. Mr. Trump at the time accused the South African government of confiscating the white African land, and supporting a long conspiracy theory about South Africa’s white abuse in the post -apartheid era.
Mr. Trump was referring to a recent policy signed by the South African government, known as the confiscation law. It cancels a law during the era of apartheid and allows the government in some cases to obtain a private land in the public interest, without paying compensation, except after the justification process subject to judicial review.
Mr. Trump and his allies have echoed for years. During his first term, Mr. Trump ordered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to investigate land attacks and “widespread murder for farmers.” Elon Musk, who was born in South Africa but not of African origin, also has Falsely claim The white farmers in South Africa were killing every day.
Despite allegations, eggs have half of South Africa, while only 7 percent of the country’s population. Police statistics do not show that they are more vulnerable to violent crime than others in the country.
Ernest Rots, former CEO of the Africanner Foundation, which presses international support for the interests of the Africans, said many of his peers feel Mr. Trump.
But he said that the creation of a new refugee program had sparked a discussion between the Africans. Mr. Rotes said that many do not want to leave their home, but they want the United States to support its efforts to demand “autonomy” in South Africa.
“I don’t know anyone – no one I know – is planning to move to America,” said Mr. Rotes. “People who want to come to America, we will support this. If people want to move to America, farmers, or African, we believe that they will make good Americans.”
“There is a good attack,” he added.
Zomb Paroti, the Congolese refugee who lives in South Carolina, said he spent contracts in the refugee camp in Africa pending his acceptance.
“These white Africans are allowed to enter the United States, but the black Africans are grateful to enter the United States,” said Mr. Barouti, 29, in Al -Sahili. He said that the axis is far from the refugees who had waited in the camps for years and for the Afrikan was a form of “discrimination”.
Mr. Barouti, a member of the Pembi people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, fled the ethnic violence in the nation when he was a child. He obtained a refugee position in 2023, but his wife and three children – the older 6 and the smallest – were not wiped after the security examination. He entered the United States two years ago, focused on getting a job, saving money and applying immediately to his family to join him.
When he entered, he said that he told him consultants who help him apply that his family would likely join him within two years.
He said this seems unlikely because Mr. Trump has turned his focus to another place.
“With regard to my family, hope has shrunk,” said Mr. Barouti.