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‘Mission South Africa’: Why Trump is offering white Afrikaners refugee status

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By Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Hamed Aleaziz

New York Times·

31 Mar, 2025 10:34 PM8 mins to read

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White South Africans rally outside the US embassy in Pretoria, South Africa, on February 15, 2025. Photo / Joao Silva, The New York Times

The US has banned most refugees, including 20,000 people who were ready to travel before President Donald Trump took office. But Trump is making one exception.

Almost immediately after taking office, President Donald Trump began shutting down refugee resettlement programmes, slashing billions of dollars in funding and making it all

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