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CAPE TOWN, South Africa A group of 49 white South Africans departed their homeland Sunday for the United States on a private charter plane having been offered refugee status by the Trump administration under a new program announced in February.
The group, which included families and small children, was due to arrive at Dulles International Airport outside Washington on Monday morning local time, according to Collen Msibi, a spokesperson for South Africas transport ministry.
They are the first Afrikaners a white minority group in South Africa to be relocated after U.S. President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Feb. 7 accusing South Africas Black-led government of racial discrimination against them and announcing a program to offer them relocation to America.
The South African government said it is completely false that Afrikaners are being persecuted.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/49-white-south-africans-leave-233802851.html
Doodley
(11,573 posts)Basso8vb
(1,230 posts)Lokee11
(393 posts)✊FDT!
Johnny2X2X
(23,670 posts)These are likely to be Neo Nazis and White Supremacists.
johnnyfins
(3,388 posts)Are these refugees going to be running newly opened plantations in the south?
Irish_Dem
(79,377 posts)FadedMullet
(641 posts).......with just this one caveat, the gotta be white.
brush
(61,033 posts)See where it gets these trump/maga/rethugs.
marble falls
(70,471 posts)Prairie Gates
(7,131 posts)It's so boring and stupid.
Ping Tung
(4,121 posts)greatauntoftriplets
(178,590 posts)I suppose there are states that will be happy to welcome more racists.