The Trump administration welcomes 59 South Africa whites as refugees in the United States Donald Trump News

The movement comes at a time when the American administration is closing the acceptance of refugees from countries with widespread violence and poverty.

A group of 59 white African Africa arrived in the United States as part of the refugee program that it created US President Donald Trump’s administration To provide a haven for what Trump described as racial discrimination against eggs.

At a press conference on Monday, Trump reflected the allegations of a common legend on the extreme right that white people in South Africa are exposed to systematic violence since the end of the white minority rule in that country.

Trump told reporters at the White House, a claim that led to criticism from government officials and the media African themselves.

This step comes at a time when the Trump administration prohibits all cases of acceptance of refugees from non -white countries and tends to a speech on a “invasion” of migrants from poor countries.

While people who flee violence and persecution on a large scale in countries such as Haiti and Afghanistan have found a Closed doorAl -Jazeera correspondent Patti Kohan says that the Trump administration “has made the priority of the entry of these people (South Africa) to the United States and paid their price to reach here.”

“The wrong end of the stick”

the South Africa government Trump’s allegations called that the Africans are facing “completely false” persecution, noting that they remained among the richest groups “the most privileged”, even after the end of the racist separation system that supported the control of the white minorities of the country’s political, economic and good resources and deprived the basic rights in South Africa.

Eggs in South Africa still have about three quarters of all private lands in the country, and they have about 20 times the wealth of the black majority, according to the International Academic Magazine.

“We believe that the US government has obtained a wrong end to the stick here, but we will continue to talk to them,” said South African President Cyril Ramavusa, a veterans in the struggle to end the apartheid on Monday.

The tensions between the Trump administration and the South African government were high with the United States South African ambassador was expelled On the previous criticism of Trump and in a dispute with the prominent prominent position in the African nation in a case before the International Court of Justice, which accused our ally of Israel, the genocide in Gaza.

In February, the Trump administration offered African resettlement, the descendants of the Dutch settlers in South Africa, saying they are facing discrimination and violence against African farmers.

“I want you to know all of you that you are really welcome here and that we respect what you had to deal with in the past few years,” Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau told the African group who arrived in the United States on Monday. “We respect the long tradition of your people and what you have accomplished over the years.”

Bill Frelek, director of refugee policy at Human Rights Watch, said the rapid path of bringing the African to the United States unprecedented.

“These are the people who did not live in refugee camps; who did not flee their country. They were the most related group to the oppression of the black majority through the apartheid.” “It is not one of the most vulnerable refugees in the world.”