
Something interesting is going on in South Africa. You see, South Africa is one of the few African countries that has a mix of white and black in its population, with the blacks as the majority. While both sides have been relatively living in peace since the apartheid ended, the US President, Donald Trump’s executive order in February has changed everything. Not only has the relationship between the US and South Africa become strained, recent reports reveal that almost 70,000 white South Africans want to leave the country. According to them, they are being persecuted by the racist laws of the black South African government. The question is are they truly being persecuted? Will they truly leave South Africa? And will the US accept them with open arms? Let’s find out.
In early February, the Trump administration accused the South African government of allowing violent attacks on white Afrikaner farmers and introducing a land expropriation law that enables it to “seize ethnic minority Afrikaners' agricultural property without compensation.” And from his benevolent heart, the US President decided to offer Afrikaners who are supposedly victims of unjust racial discrimination, refugee status in the US. Specifically, the order directed Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem to prioritize humanitarian relief to Afrikaners who are victims of “unjust racial discrimination” and resettle them in the U.S. under the refugee program.