U.S. President Donald Trump is considering prioritizing white South Africans in a dramatically decreased quota of refugees allowed into the United States this fiscal year.
Trump is considering cutting the number of refugee places to as few as 7,500 from a target of 125,000 refugee admissions last year under the Biden administration, according to officials, with the places mostly going to members of the Afrikaner white minority from South Africa.
The figures for the fiscal year that began Oct. 1 have not been finalized, according to two people familiar with the situation who were granted anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss it with the media.
The U.S. says Afrikaners are being discriminated against by their Black-led government, are the victims of race-based violence, and are having their land seized.
The South African government strongly denies those claims, calling them “completely false” and the result of misinformation.
Some white
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