DULES, Va. — White South African refugees had been welcomed to the United States by the US Department of State and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Monday as President Donald Trump denounced them for the “genocide that’s taking place.”
Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau and Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Troy Edgar visited Washington Dulles International Airport in northern Virginia outdoors of Washington, DC, and met a bunch of Africans, together with households with babies.
59 South Africans – lots of them waving the American flag after they entered the aircraft’s hangar to satisfy Landau and Edgar – are the primary African refugees emigrate to the United States after halting Trump’s February 7 government order to the nation and offering asylum to white minority teams.
In his order, Trump condemned “variety of authorities insurance policies designed to dismantle equal alternatives for employment, schooling and enterprise, and hateful rhetoric and authorities actions that promote disproportionate violence towards racially deprived landowners.”
Speaking to Breitbart News shortly after the refugees adorned the federal government’s characterised flight, Landau stated white South Africans, together with the brand new arrival, had been “victims of unfair racism” and “violence.”
They had been actually very critical, gross, focused threats. We pray they’re effectively on their journey within the United States. We emphasize that Americans are welcoming and beneficiant individuals, and the significance of assimilation into the United States. And now we have despatched a transparent message that the United States actually rejects the aggravated persecution of individuals based mostly on the race of South Africa, and we welcome these individuals into the United States and the brand new future.
Looking on the government order issued by the President on February seventh this 12 months, I believe he’s speaking in regards to the horrific expropriation legal guidelines enacted in South Africa that permit expropriation with out compensation for farmland. A substantial variety of these refugees had been farmers who had cultivated this explicit land for generations and now confronted not solely expropriation however the specter of direct violence. We had the chance to speak to them… Many of those individuals have skilled threatening the invasion of their houses, their farms, and have an actual lack of presidency pursuits or success to do something about this case. Similarly, these individuals have lived beneath the shadow of violence and concern for some time, apparently, as there are some very vocal South African politicians who’ve been repeating issues like “kill Boer and kill Africans.”
Edgar additionally shared some feedback, thanking Trump and DHS Chief Christa Noem for “offering us the chance to come back right here and welcome these individuals from South Africa,” and touted the acceptance of refugees up to now from different troubled international locations as successful.
It was nice to say hey to those individuals who got here in, hearken to their tales and listen to what they’d skilled. This is an actual state of affairs. These individuals have gone by means of quite a bit and I’m grateful that many people have them within the US, the place we all know they’ve a protracted historical past of bringing individuals to the US. My spouse was Iranian. She got here in the course of the change of presidency within the 70s and is right here now. I communicate 5 languages as a faculty trainer. I believe American goals are attainable for South Africans. We are very excited for them. And my assistant secretary and I gave these individuals our private info. I stated something we will to assist them succeed, we simply need them to be the very best.
Trump additionally spoke about refugees throughout a briefing for the White House press.
“They’re being killed, and we do not wish to see individuals being killed,” the president advised reporters. “Now, South Africa’s management is starting to satisfy me subsequent week. I do know that sooner or later subsequent week now we have a G20 assembly or one thing. We have a G20 assembly.
The 2025 G20 Summit that includes heads of state and authorities can be held in Johannesburg, South Africa in November.
Trump continued. “But it is a genocide that your individuals do not wish to write about. But it is a horrifying factor that is taking place. The farmers are being killed, they occur to be white.
The president went to Lambust mainstream media for refusing to report on the persecution of European minorities in African international locations.
“And I do not care who they’re,” he repeated. “I do not care about their race, their color, their color. I do not care about their top, their weight. I do not care about something. I do know what is going on on. I do know there are individuals who reside in South Africa.
Olivia Rondeau is a political reporter for Breitbart News, based mostly in Washington, DC. Find her on X/Twitter and Instagram.