Afrikaners refugee status that will arrive in the United States on Monday: NPR

Johannesburg, South Africa – The US government officially granted 54 Africans Afrikaans, white descendants of Dutch colonizers, refugee status and they should land in the United States on Monday, May 12, three sources knowing the case told NPR. The sources did not want to be appointed because they work for the American government and fear their career.

The American authorities were trying Thursday to organize a charter flight that would bring South Africans to Dulles airport near Washington, DC on Monday morning, but it is not clear if they will be allowed to land there. If this is not possible, they will be sent to commercial flights, according to sources.

NPR has also seen an email confirming the plan and that newcomers will then be sent to their final destinations in various states across the country.

The group is the first group of Afrikaners to be accepted by the United States after President Donald Trump signed a executive decree In February offering them possible resettlement.

“The Secretary of State and the Secretary of Internal Security will take the appropriate measures, in accordance with the law, to prioritize humanitarian aid, including admission and resettlement through the admission to refugees in the United States, for Afrikaners in South Africa who are victims of unjust racial discrimination”, declared the order, signed on February 7. He also reduced assistance to South Africa.

The sources indicated that a press conference had been planned for the arrival of the group at Dulles airport, which are high -level civil servants of the departments of the security of the state and the house.

States that agreed to take South Africans include: Colorado, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Washington, Virginie-Western, California, Idaho, Montana, North Carolina, Nevada and New York, said a source. Several of the people who have granted refugee have family ties to the United States, they said.

The source noted that it is unusual that refugees were welcomed at the airport by the American dignitaries, and said that the process of interviewing them in South Africa and granting them refugee status was unusually rapid.

Afrikaners received refugee status P1. According to the website of the State Department, this is given to “individual cases returned by entities designated on the program because of their situation and their apparent need for resettlement”.

South Africans will now have a path to American citizenship and will be eligible for government benefits.

A source told NPR that the International Organization for United Nations Migration had refused to be involved in the process. An IOM spokesman did not immediately respond to the request for comments.

President Trump, his South African advisor, Elon Musk, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, have all expressed what they claim to be the persecution of Afrikaners – many of whom are farmers – in South Africa.

Trump accused the South African government of “doing terrible things” and said “that they confiscated land, and in fact they do things that may be worse than it.”

The South African government has passed a new Reformation bill Earlier this year, but so far, no land has been confiscated and the government says that a clause allowing “expropriation without compensation” would only be used in rare cases.

The Department of International Relations of South Africa also retaliated against the allegations of Trump against which Afrikaners are victims of discrimination.

“It is ironic that the planned decree provides for refugee status in the United States for a group in South Africa which remains among the most economically privileged, while vulnerable people in the United States in other parts of the world are expelled and refused by asylum despite real difficulties,” said the department in a February declaration.
During his first day in power, Trump ordered the realignment of the “Refugee admission program, ” Suspend it effectively, explaining: “The United States does not have the capacity to absorb a large number of migrants, and in particular, refugees, in its communities in a way that does not compromise the availability of resources for Americans, which protects their safety and safety.”