Trump Welcomes White South African Refugees as He Shuts Out Afghans and Others

The same day that the Blancos South African boxes arrived in the United States as refugees, by invitation of President Trump himself, his administration said that thousands of Afghan could be deported as of this summer.

The immigration policies of Mr. Trump are plagued by contradictions, personified by the arrival of Monday of a chartered plane, paid by the US government, with Afrikaners boxes that say they face racial discrimination at home.

The Trump administration approach in Blancos Afrikaners, a white ethnic minority that ruled the apartheid of duration, is particularly surprising, since it is effective for prohibiting most of the other refugees and addresses legal and illegal immigrants equally for deportation. Those include Afghas who were granted “temporary protected status” after the disastrous withdrawal of the United States of Afghanistan in 2021, many of whom had risk their lives to help US forces.

Trump’s hard line on immigration helped boost the White House, since the voters of both parties expressed their frustration on the subject. He has promised to carry out the largest deportation operation in the history of the United States, and one of the first executive orders of his second mandate was to suspend the resettlement of refugees in the United States.

But the administration’s decision to forge an exception for White Afrikaners has asked questions about who are the “correct” immigrants, in Trump’s opinion.

Christopher Landau, Undersecretary of State, who greeted Afrikaner refugees on Monday, told journalists that the group had been “carefully examined.”

“One of the criteria was that refugees did not raise any challenge for our national security and that they easily assimilated to our country,” he said, without elaborating what Eather meerate or what popcations Eather.

When a journalist asked him to explain why South Africa’s people were welcome even when Afghans were losing their legal status in the United States, Mr. Landau suggested that Afghan had not suffered enough background verifications, saying that the Biden Administration “had brought people who were not sure they had been carefully examined by national security problems.”

Tricia McLaughlin, undersecretary of the Department of National Security, said that protections for Afghan immigrants were always destined to be temporary. Trump officials have argued that the temporary protected state is being used incorrectly, to allow people to remain indefinitely in the United States.

“The secretary’s name made the decision to finish TPS for people from Afghanistan, the improved security situation in the country and its stabilizing economy no longer prevents them from returning to their country of origin,” McLaughlin said.

Trump has long criticized refugees, claiming that resettlement programs flood the country with undesirable people and allow criminals and terrorists to the United States.

But he has made an exception for Afrikaners, who say they have discriminated their legs, have denied job opportunities and have been the object of violence due to their race. Trump said on Monday that the United States had “essentially extended citizenship” to them because he said they were victims of a genocide.

There are murders in the legs of white farmers, a focus of AFRIKAner complaints, but police statistics show that they are not more vulnerable to violent crimes than others in the country.

Three decades after the end of apartheid, White South Africans continue to dominate land ownership. They are also used at much higher rates than black South Africans and it is much less likely to live in poverty.

P. Deep Gulaasekaram, professor of the Immigration Law at the Law Faculty of the University of Colorado, said the exceptions were made to the white Afrikaners, while other groups remain out, “an openly advances a narration of the global persecution of whites.”

The reasoning of the Trump administration to deny the temporary status of the Afghan is that Afghan migrants would not face a “serious threat to their personal safety due to an armed conflict that fills”, the Secretary of National Security, Kristi, the sad name in a statement. (Grave personal threats of the “ongoing armed conflict” are among the specific criteria for temporary protected status in the United States Immigration Law).

Experts in the situation in Afghanistan questioned that reasoning, pointing out that security threats remain and that Afghans who cooperate with US forces duration of the 20 -year occupation remain in extremely high or execution torture.

After US forces left the country, Taliban officials said they do not retaliate against people who had helped US forces or the former Afghan government backed by the United States.

But a 2023 report of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan documented at least 800 human rights vorations against former officials and members of the Armed Forces that served under the government backed by the United States. Abuses included “extrajudicial murders, forced disappearances, arbitrary judgments and arrests, torture and problems and threats.”

The former members of the Afghan Army were at greater risk, according to the report, followed by national and local police officers, and people who worked in the Security Directorate of the former Government.

“What the administration has done today is to betray the people who risked their lives for the United States, built lives here and believed in our promises,” said Shawn Vandiver, president of the Afghanevac group, in a statement.