South Africa eggs quickly arrive to put refugees to the United States

On Monday, the Trump administration welcomed a group of 59 South Africa as refugees, saying they are facing discrimination and violence at home, which the government of the country strongly denies.

The decision to recognize that Africanists raised questions from refugee advocates about the reason for their acceptance when the Trump administration suspended the efforts made to resettle people who flee the war and persecution who have gone through years of scrutiny.

Many of South Africa – including young children and other young children, even one walks barefoot in pajamas – keeps small American flags where two US officials welcomed them in the airport fold outside Washington. Then South Africa left other trips to various American destinations.

A group of 49 was expected, but the US State Department said on Monday that 59 had arrived.

“I want all of you to know that you are really welcome here and that we respect what you had to deal with in the past few years,” said US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau.

They are the first African-a group of white minorities in South Africa-to be transferred after Trump issued an executive order on February 7, accusing the government of racial discrimination in South Africa against them and announcing a program to submit their transfer to America.

The administration says that the South African government is following racist and anti -eggs through the positive labor laws targeting African lands through a new law signed by President Cyril Ramavusa this year, which can theoretically create lands from some farmers without compensation.

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Three quarters of South African private lands are still white and no single confiscation occurred. The Democratic Alliance, one of the many government coalition partners, challenged the legitimacy of the new law in the court.

US President Donald Trump first renewed the lands that were transported from white farmers during his first presidency in 2018, when a modernization of apartheid laws in South Africa related to land reform was considered only.

“Economically distinguished”

The South African government said that African – who are the descendants of the Dutch and French colonial settlers – are “the most economical concession” in the country. There are about 2.7 million African among the 62 million South African population, which is more than 80 percent of the lions.

They are only one part of the country’s white minority, but the Trump administration program for refugees only provides transfer to Africans, who are largely seen as conservative and Christian values ​​that may be in line with the Trump administration policy.

The Mediterranean White Istability in South Africa has 20 times the wealth of the ordinary black family, according to the review of the political economy, an international academic magazine.

Black South Africa unemployment rate In the fourth quarter of 2024 It reached 35.8 per cent, compared to 6.7 percent for South Africa whites, and 14 percent for those who are considered an Indian or Asian demography. In the northwestern province, more than 90 percent of the lions, the country’s higher unemployment rate was 41 percent.

“The refugee is a person who should leave his country for fear of political persecution, religious persecution, or economic persecution, and they do not fit with this draft law, they are not commensurate with this description.”

Trump insists on race is not a worker

Trump and his South African advisor, Elon Musk, also claims that the Africans are targeting racist motivated attacks in some rural societies.

“It is a collective genocide that you do not want to write about, O people,” Trump said on Monday at the White House.

This controversial claim was rejected by the existence of a white genocide by the judge, who described it as “clearly imagining”, ” in One prominent caseViolent crime statistics at the national level also do not provide supportive evidence.

There were 49 murders on the farm in 2023, according to Afriforum, and the AFRIKANER group that records agriculture attacks. This number actually decreased from 2013 to 2017, when between 62 and 72 murders are observed every year.

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The country’s police minister Doubts about the African number in generalSaying that it is not related to the information received by the federal government from the police stations. He also suggested that the total would include murders of farm workers, who are often black.

South Africa suffers from deadly violence in general, With more than 23,000 murders annually during the past four yearsGiven the population composition in the country and poverty statistics, a large percentage of the victims is black.

“The idea of ​​the white victim indicates that the bad things that occur to white people are worse without limits than the same things that happen to anyone else,” Nikki Valcouf, head of diversity studies at the University of Whitrondend, told Rents recently. “So when the crime occurs to white people, it is not just a crime, it is a targeted genocide.”

Trump insisted on whether white or black farmers are, “This does not make me a difference for me, but white farmers are brutally killing, and their lands are confiscated.”

An issue against Israel is another attached point

During the days of the South African government, the new US administration criticized, and Foreign Minister Marco Rubio announced that he will not attend a meeting of foreign ministers of the Group of Twenty in Johannesburg in February.

This city hosts the G20 summit in November.

In addition to its position in the rural land law, the American administration was angered by South Africa, which advanced the issue of genocide against the US ally of Israel regarding its military campaign in Gaza, which precipitated by the attacks led by the Hamas armed group on October 7, 2023.

The government of South Africa said that although there were no justifications for them, it respected their freedom to choose and could not stop them.

In 2018, the government of Australia also looked at then on the rapidly tracking African farmers, which sparked a diplomatic spit with South Africa. The plan has never succeeded.