Afrikaners from S. Africa get refugee status in US

In a strange twist of logic, US President Donald Trump, who had been opposed to immigration, had declared in February this year that white South Africans would be granted refugee status in the US because they faced discrimination in their own country, and that they even faced 'genocide'.

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In response to this 59 Afrikaners reached the US.

The Afrikaners are descendants of 17th century Dutch colonists, and they are farmers. They are also known as Boers, and the British colonists had fought a war with them in South Africa. The Afrikaners were also the main proponents of the apartheid regime in South Africa which had ended in 1994.

The African National Congress (ANC) government representing the African black majority had said that it could expropriate huge lands owned by the Afrikaners for public interest. This has been interpreted to mean that the Afrikaners were being dispossessed. And Trump used this as a ground of discrimination. He also said that he is not supporting the Afrikaner cause because they are whites. He said that their colour does not interest him.