--- title: Trump Welcomes Planeload of White South Africans, While Shutting Out Other Refugees [VERTICAL] | TIME description: The first group of refugees brought into the U.S. since Donald Trump became President followed an unusual path. On his first day back in office, he suspended all refugee admissions to the U.S.—upending resettlement plans for thousands fearing persecution and violence. Eighteen days later, he announced an exception for white South Africans who “are victims of unjust racial discrimination.” canonical: https://time.com/video/yIigSMro/ og:title: Trump Welcomes Planeload of White South Africans, While Shutting Out Other Refugees [VERTICAL] og:description: The first group of refugees brought into the U.S. since Donald Trump became President followed an unusual path. On his first day back in office, he suspended all refugee admissions to the U.S.—upending resettlement plans for thousands fearing persecution and violence. Eighteen days later, he announced an exception for white South Africans who “are victims of unjust racial discrimination.” og:url: https://time.com/video/yIigSMro/ og:image: https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/yIigSMro/poster.jpg?width=720 og:type: video.other twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Trump Welcomes Planeload of White South Africans, While Shutting Out Other Refugees [VERTICAL] twitter:description: The first group of refugees brought into the U.S. since Donald Trump became President followed an unusual path. On his first day back in office, he suspended all refugee admissions to the U.S.—upending resettlement plans for thousands fearing persecution and violence. 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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Trump Welcomes Planeload of White South Africans, While Shutting Out Other Refugees VERTICAL [Watch (HLS stream): Trump Welcomes Planeload of White South Africans, While Shutting Out Other Refugees VERTICAL](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/yIigSMro.m3u8) (1:46)  _Published 2025-05-13. The first group of refugees brought into the U.S. since Donald Trump became President followed an unusual path. On his first day back in office, he suspended all refugee admissions to the U.S.—upending resettlement plans for thousands fearing persecution and violence. Eighteen days later, he announced an exception for white South Africans who “are victims of unjust racial discrimination.”_ --- May 13, 2025 8:20 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Trump Says He’s Allowing White South Africans to Come to U.S. to Avoid ‘Genocide’](/video/Dns3KBYT/) ### Trump Says He’s Allowing White South Africans to Come to U.S. to Avoid ‘Genocide’ [U.N. Refers Saudi Runaway to Australia for Refugee Resettlement](/video/5OUTDgfS/) ### U.N. Refers Saudi Runaway to Australia for Refugee Resettlement [Know Right Now: U.S. To Take In 10,000 Syrian Refugees](/video/wEnyVXOx/) ### Know Right Now: U.S. To Take In 10,000 Syrian Refugees --- ## Transcript The Trump administration has brought a group of white South Africans to the US as refugees. When President Trump came to office in January, he stopped all refugee admissions coming into the United States. Put that in context. The US admitted about 100,000 refugees last year from around the world. Now, the Trump administration has picked out a group of white Afrikaners from South Africa to bring in as refugees. Afrikaners are descendants of Dutch settlers who came to South Africa in the 1600s as a minority group in South Africa. They were also responsible for the apartheid laws that allowed the minority white South Africans to rule the country from 1940s until the 1990s. The Trump administration says that the South African government has passed laws in the last year that discriminate against these white South Africans, and they are subject to having their land taken away and have also been subject to violence. A time reporter asked President Trump about his decision to admit white South Africans as refugees. This is what he said. 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. Farmers are being killed. They happen to be white, but whether they're white or black makes no difference to me. The South African government says that police and crime statistics in the country do not support that. And there isn't data that shows that white South Africans have been targeted for violence. When this group of white South Africans landed in the United States, they were greeted by Trump administration officials, including a State Department official who called them quality seed and said that they would bloom inside the United States. ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Trump Welcomes Planeload of White South Africans, While Shutting Out Other Refugees [VERTICAL]","description":"The first group of refugees brought into the U.S. since Donald Trump became President followed an unusual path. On his first day back in office, he suspended all refugee admissions to the U.S.—upending resettlement plans for thousands fearing persecution and violence. 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