South Africa denies US white people humanitarian crisis claim
The Government in South Africa and Afrikaner advocacy groups on Wednesday rejected the position of the Trump administration that there’s a humanitarian emergency affecting white people in South Africa.
The argument served as the rationale for raising the US refugee cap, but only for white Afrikaners.
The Trump administration said Tuesday that it will admit an additional 10,000 white South Africans into the US as refugees this year, increasing its annual cap, but blocking people from other countries from entering through the programme.
US President Donald Trump’s announcement on the Federal Register that he was increasing the refugee cap because of “an unforeseen emergency refugee situation”. He blamed the South African government for “recent increases in the incitement of racially motivated violence,” but Trump gave no specific information.
