WASHINGTON ¨C U.S. President Donald Trump increased the refugee admissions ceiling by 10,000 for this year to allow more white South Africans to come into the country, a signed presidential determination?showed.
The document, dated May 21, said white South Africans of Afrikaner ethnicity face an emergency situation ?due to the ¡°incitement ?of racially motivated violence¡± by the government and political parties in the majority-Black country. Trump, ?a Republican, froze refugee admissions from around the world when he took office in January 2025, but weeks later launched a program exclusively aimed at bringing in white South Africans. The effort ¡ª which prioritized white refugees ?while shunning thousands of others from Africa, Asia and elsewhere ¡ª was part of a broader challenging of humanitarian norms around refugee protection.
The ?Trump administration has admitted only three non-South African refugees this fiscal year, government figures show.
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