Donald Trump said Monday their lives are in danger, escalating their plight to a “genocide” as he welcomed 59 white Afrikaners, the descendants of Dutch […]

The Trump administration welcomed white South African refugees into the U.S. on Monday, the same day it announced it is ending deportation protections for refugees from Afghanistan. The big picture: The coinciding moves show a split screen of President Trump's immigration crackdown,

The rapid relocation of the Afrikaners, who President Trump says have been racially persecuted in South Africa, stands in stark contrast to the virtual shutdown of all other refugee admissions.

A local leader said she hopes to help some of the thousands of refugees admitted under President Joe Biden who are now “stranded.”

New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof loudly condemned President Donald Trump's decision to grant refugee status to white South Afrikaners in a recent CNN interview. "He's completely turned refugee policy upside down in ways that reflect racial discrimination.