{"id":1653,"date":"2025-11-03T18:31:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T18:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tona.today\/?p=1653"},"modified":"2025-11-03T18:31:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T18:31:19","slug":"u-s-to-limit-refugees-to-record-low-7500-mostly-white-south-africans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tona.today\/?p=1653","title":{"rendered":"U.S. to limit refugees to record low 7,500, mostly white South Africans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Trump administration announced plans on Thursday to drastically cut back the number of refugees to be accepted annually by the United States to a record low and give priority to white South Africans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under the new policy, the United States would welcome 7,500 refugees in fiscal 2026, down from more than 100,000 a year under Democratic president Joe Biden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Burna Boy - Sittin\u2019 On Top Of The World (feat. 21 Savage) [Official Music Video]\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mMJ3Gogi2Qk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The vast majority of those being accepted during the fiscal year which began on October 1 would be white South Africans and &#8220;other victims of illegal or unjust discrimination in their respective homelands,&#8221; according to a White House memo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The admissions numbers shall primarily be allocated among Afrikaners from South Africa,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Republican President Donald Trump essentially halted refugee arrivals after taking office in January, but has been making an exception for white South Africans despite Pretoria&#8217;s insistence that they do not face persecution in their homeland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A first group of around 50 Afrikaners &#8212; descendants of the first European settlers of South Africa &#8212; arrived for resettlement in the United States in May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump campaigned for the White House on a pledge to deport millions of undocumented migrants and signed an executive order in January suspending the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, a senior fellow at the American Immigration Council, said that since 1980 more than two million people fleeing persecution have been admitted into the United States under the program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Now it will be used as a pathway for white immigration,&#8221; Reichlin-Melnick said on X. &#8220;What a downfall for a crown jewel of America&#8217;s international humanitarian programs.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Krish O&#8217;Mara Vignarajah, president of another immigration-focused group, Global Refuge, also criticized the move by the Trump administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;For more than four decades, the U.S. refugee program has been a lifeline for families fleeing war, persecution, and repression,&#8221; Vignarajah said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;At a time of crisis in countries ranging from Afghanistan to Venezuela to Sudan and beyond, concentrating the vast majority of admissions on one group undermines the program&#8217;s purpose as well as its credibility.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to slashing refugee numbers, the Trump administration has moved to strip Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Afghans, Haitians, Venezuelans and nationals of several other countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The United States grants TPS to foreign citizens who cannot safely return home because of war, natural disasters or other &#8220;extraordinary&#8221; conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump has said the Afrikaners being taken in as refugees by the United States are fleeing a &#8220;terrible situation&#8221; back home and has even gone so far as to describe it as &#8220;genocide,&#8221; an allegation widely dismissed as absurd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whites, who make up 7.3 percent of South Africa&#8217;s population, generally enjoy a higher standard of living than the Black majority. 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