Overview

• President Trump’s February executive order directs resettlement of Afrikaners in response to their claims of racial violence and land seizures.
• A State Department official said the program will scale up from dozens of arrivals to potentially thousands by late summer.
• More than 50,000 Afrikaner refugee applications are pending in U.S. processing, and new submissions are expected to push that total higher.
• Senator Jeanne Shaheen and other critics argue the effort is politically motivated and prioritizes one group over other refugees.
• Diplomatic tensions have deepened after Trump displayed a misleading photograph as evidence of ‘white genocide’ and paused U.S. aid to South Africa.