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2026-04-25 -Land of the Free
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Trump considering major expansion of refugee program for white South Africans
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Best to get them out whilst they are still alive.
[NYPost] President Donald Trump’s administration is considering more than doubling an annual refugee limit to bring more white South Africans into the US, according to three people familiar with the matter.
Trump, a Republican, paused refugee admissions from around the world when he took office in January 2025.
Weeks later, he issued an executive order prioritizing the resettlement of European-descended Afrikaners, saying they faced race-based persecution in majority-Black South Africa.
South Africa’s government vehemently denies the claims.
The US Refugee Admissions Program was formally established in 1980 after hundreds of thousands of people fled wars in Vietnam and Cambodia.
The program expanded to provide safe haven to persecuted people around the globe.
Trump has used it almost exclusively to bring white South Africans into the US, part of a broader upending of norms around humanitarian protection.
In recent weeks, US officials have discussed expanding the 7,500-person refugee cap by 10,000 to allow more South Africans of Afrikaner ethnicity to obtain refugee status, said people familiar with internal planning, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to share non-public government discussions.
The White House referred questions to the US State Department.
A State Department spokesperson did not confirm or deny the discussions around expanding the refugee admissions ceiling.
“If the president decides to raise the FY 2026 refugee admissions cap, he will do so at the appropriate time, and any numbers discussed at this point are only speculation,” the spokesperson said.
Blacks make up 81% of South Africa’s population, according to 2022 census data. Afrikaners and other white South Africans constitute 7% of the population.
The US admitted about 4,500 South Africans as refugees through the first six months of the fiscal year, State Department figures show, on pace to exceed Trump’s existing limits for the program.
The only refugees other than white South Africans to enter this fiscal year were three Afghans, according to State Department statistics.
Trump set the record-low refugee ceiling of 7,500 for fiscal year 2026, which began October 1, 2025, down from a ceiling of 125,000 a year under former President Joe Biden.
The Trump administration is also discussing bringing in refugees of other nationalities, one of the people familiar with planning said.
US officials are weighing whether religious minorities from Iran and countries that used to be part of the Soviet Union could be included under what’s known as the “Lautenberg” program, the person said.
The program stems from a 1989 budget amendment introduced by then-US Senator Frank Lautenberg that aimed to make it easier for Jewish refugees to resettle in the US.
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