Overview

• President Trump’s February executive order set up a refugee program for Afrikaners claiming racial discrimination in South Africa
• On July 8, U.S. embassy Charge d’Affairs David Greene asked whether non-white Afrikaans speakers could qualify under the order
• Spencer Chretien, the senior official in the refugee bureau, emailed that the program is intended exclusively for white South Africans
• The State Department’s public guidance continues to state that both Afrikaners and other South African minorities remain eligible
• Eighty-eight South Africans have been resettled so far, with about 15 more arrivals expected by the end of August under the program