All but three of the 6,069 refugees taken in by the United States since October are White South Africans, according to state department statistics.
At the beginning of Donald Trump’s second presidency, he restricted general refugee admissions to the US, but carved out highly specific, large-scale exceptions for Afrikaner refugees.
The US president accused Pretoria of carrying out a “genocide” against white Afrikaner farmers, claims strongly rejected by the South African government.
During a White House visit in May last year, Mr Trump ambushed Cyril Ramaphosa, the president of South Africa, with videos apparently showing the persecution of white South Africans within the country.
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