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# Trump Says He’s Allowing White South Africans to Come to U.S. to Avoid ‘Genocide’

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_Published 2025-05-12. President Donald Trump said that he’s allowing white farmers from South Africa to come to the United States as refugees because of the “genocide that’s taking place.” Trump said that in a post-apartheid South Africa that white farmers are “being killed” and he plans to address the issue with South African leadership next week._


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## Transcript

I want to ask you about South African refugees. Dozens of African Afrikaners who claim discrimination in their home country are heading to the United States, where your administration is going to welcome them as refugees. Now, this comes as you've halted virtually all refugee admissions for people fleeing famine and war from countries like Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Why are you creating an expedited path into the country for Oconnors, but not others? Because they're being killed and we don't want to see people be killed. Now South Africa leadership is coming to see me. I understand sometime next week.

And, you know, we're supposed to have a guest, a G-20 meeting there or something, but we're having a G-20 meeting. I don't know how we can go unless that situation is taken care of. But it's a genocide that's taking place that you people don't want to write about. But it's a terrible thing that's taking place. And. Farmers are being killed. They happen to be white, but whether they're white or black makes no difference to me. But white farmers are being brutally killed, and their land is being confiscated in South Africa. And the newspapers and the media, television, media doesn't even talk about it.

If it were the other way around, they talk about it. That would be the only story they talk about. And I don't care who they are. I don't care about their race, their color. I don't care about their height, their weight. I don't care about anything. I just know that what's happening is terrible. I have people that live in South Africa. They say it's a terrible situation taking place. So we've essentially extended citizenship to those people and to escape from that violence and come here. Yeah.

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