Only Africans from South Africa? The US showed the assumptions of refugee policy

The administration of US President Donald Trump is considering receiving 40,000 next year. refugees, of which 30,000 Places would fall to Africans, a white minority from South Africa, which for decades ruled the country during apartheid.

According to the Reuters agency with such 40,000. The limit of Angie Salazar, the main clerk for refugee program in the US Health and Social Welfare Department (HHS), talked to her colleagues.

Two officials informed the agency that of this number about 30,000 Places will be intended for Africans who, according to the US president, are exposed to “racial discrimination and violence.” Another source said the Reuters agency that a limit of 12,000 was also taken into account.

In addition to Africans, The White House is considering limited resettlements of Afghans who helped the US armed forces in conflicts in the Middle East, and potentially also Ukrainians, leaving only a small number of places for other nationalities.

In the last year of office of the previous president, Joe Biden, the United States adopted 100,000 refugees, of which the most came from the Democratic Republic of Congo (18 145).

The proposed limit is still higher than a record low ceiling of 15,000. established by Trump during his first presidential term in the last days of office in the White House.

At the beginning of the current term of office, President Trump invited Africans to the USA, granting them refugees and claiming that this group was met with racial discrimination. His then adviser, born in South Africa, Elon Musk added that in South Africa there is threatening the black majority genocide. In May, the first 59 Africans benefited from asylum.

Earlier, the Trump administration suspended taking all other refugees, including those from the war -covered zones, suspending the consideration of about 600 thousand. applications. (PAP)

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