The first group of South Africa whites in the United States under the Trump refugee plan

A group of 49 South Africa left the country on Saturday to the United States on a special arid plane after it was awarded the refugee status by the Trump administration as part of the anti -discrimination program in February.

The group, which included families and young children, is scheduled to arrive at Dallas International Airport outside Washington, DC at local time, on Monday morning, according to Colin Maybi, a spokesman for the Ministry of Transport in South Africa.

They are the first African, an ethnic group of Dutch and French origin, often settled their ancestors South Africa In the seventeenth century, it will be transferred to the United States yet President Trump It issued an executive order on February 7, accusing the South African racial discrimination government against the group and announcing a program to transfer them.

“In ignoring a shocking of the rights of its citizens, the Republic of South Africa (South Africa) recently enacted the confiscation Law of 2024 (law), to enable the South African government to seize Executive order Countries.

The South African government strongly denies that the Africans are exposed to discrimination, and called on the Trump administration’s “completely false”, adding that it draws a non -representative image of the country.

At a press conference on Monday, when he was asked about the group of Africans, who chose the United States to welcome him as refugees while the country is also carrying out mass deportations for foreign citizens, many of whom carry his legal status in the country, Trump said that they are “killed, and we do not want to see people kill.”

Trump added that he will meet with South African leaders next week to discuss the case.

“I think the South African leadership is coming to see me, and I understand the time next week, and we are supposed to have a meeting of the group of twenty or something like that. But we are facing a meeting of the Group of Twenty, I do not know how we can go unless this situation has been taken care of.”

“It is a collective genocide that you do not want to write about, O people, but it is a terrible thing that happens, and farmers are killed, and they are issued to be white, but whether they are white or black, there is no difference for me, but the white media is not killed about that, it talks about that, if there is the following in talking about that, they cannot talk about that. A story they were talking about.”

The president did not clarify this allegation, and did not provide any evidence of genocide against the group.

“I do not care who they are, I do not care about their race, their color, and I do not care about their length, their weight, and I do not care about anything, and I know that what happens is terrible,” continued.

The president concluded that “I have people who live in South Africa, and they say it is a terrible situation that happens, so we mainly extended citizenship to these people to escape from this violence and come here.”

According to the South African authorities, the Africans are among the “most privileged” people 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. Thus, although it is a minority, many in South Africa, given its fraught racial history Confused to claim The white Africans are persecuted and met with the requirements to be refugees.

There are many successful African leaders, some of whom hold the positions of ministers in the government, and their language, the Africans, who speak widely-including by other than AFRIKANERS- and are recognized as an official language.

However, Trump and his colleague, born in South Africa, Elon Musk, accused the country in February of implementing racist laws to combat eggs and economic policies that are not proportional to African farmers.

These allegations were established on a relatively small number of violent agricultural attacks and theft of eggs in rural societies, but the United States claims that the attacks are racist, and that the South African government “feeds” by allowing a white discourse with a memorial and not providing adequate protection for Euphrites of eggs.

The government says these allegations are wrong, and it has condemned agricultural attacks, and says its case was intentionally forged.

Violent attacks on farm owners in South Africa have been for years, but cases represent a small percentage of highly highly high crime rates in the country, which affect all races. The government says that there is no targeting of white people in South Africa and there is no persecution, and agricultural attacks are part of its struggles with violent crimes.

– With files from the Associated Press

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