Trump Welcomes White South African Refugees, Claiming Racial Discrimination | EUROtoday

Applications for the South African refugees — who arrived at Dulles International Airport close to Washington on Monday — had been reportedly fast-trackedwhereas the administration has gone out of its approach to stymie comparable requests from locations like Iraq, Afghanistan and Sudan.

White South Africans had been in a position to qualify for refugee standing as a part of a brand new program tailor-made to these in search of to flee alleged race-based discrimination. According to The Washington Post, a State Department memo stated a lot of the incoming refugees “have witnessed or experienced extreme violence with a racial nexus.”

The White House’s advocacy for the white South African refugees — lots of whom are descended from Dutch colonists within the area — instantly contradicts how the administration has handled refugees and immigrants extra broadly.