Trump officials try to bring the first white Afrikaner -refugees to us next week

The Trump government is working on bringing the first group of white South Africans who classified it to the United States early next week, according to officials who have been informed about the plans and documents obtained by the New York Times.

Although the president stopped almost all other refugee recordings shortly after he took office in January, his administration hastily put together a program to allow white South Africans, who, according to him, is the victim of racial persecution in their home country.

The administration plans to send government officials to Washington Dulles International Airport in Virginia for an event that belongs to the arrival of the South Africans, which belongs to the Ethnic Group of the White Minority Afrikaner, according to the memo of the Department of Heal and Human Services. The administration initially intended to welcome the Afrikaners on Monday, but some civil servants who were familiar with the case warned that the plans remained in Flux, depending on flight logistics and processing of the group.

The arrival of the Afrikaners would strengthen Mr Trump’s efforts to raise a program that has made thousands of people on the flee who can find the war, famine and natural disaster in the United States for decades.

While the program remains suspended for refugees around the world, such as Congolese families in refugee camps and Rohingya looking for safety, white South Africans were processed much faster than normal for these cases.

Refugees can often wait years in camps around the world before they are processed and approved to travel to the United States. Before the first government of Trump, the resettlement of refugees lasted an average of 18 to 24 months, according to the American Immigration Council, an interest group for immigrants. Many refugees have to wait for years.

However, the Afrikaners had to wait no more than three months.

The arrival of the white South Africans comes after Mr Trump has signed an executive order that the admission to refugee was suspended when he was in office. Subsequently, Mr Trump created an exception for the resettlement of Afrikaners in February, while he also reduced all American financial aid to South Africa.

Mark Hetfield, the president of HIAS, a Jewish resettlement agency, said his organization is committed to welcome Afrikaners.

“But we are deeply disturbed that the administration took the door against thousands of other refugees who were approved by DHS months ago, notwithstanding the courts who recommend the White House to let many of them,” said Mr. Hetfield, referring to the Department of Homeland Security. “That’s just not right.”

Many Afrikaners say they are denied jobs, aimed at criminals and ignored by the government because of their race. Mr Trump’s support for Afrikaners dates from his first term. But this year he came by their side after the President of South Africa had introduced a law with which the government could grab land of private owners without providing compensation in rare cases.

Supporters of such measures say that they are needed to undo the remains of colonialism and apartheid, when the government of the white minority brutally suppressed Zwarte Zuid Africans and drove them from their country. The South African government has spared with Mr Trump and his officials and said that they are spreading wrong information.

Within a few weeks after the announcement that Afrikaners would be eligible for refugee status, the administration teams deployed in Pretoria, the South African capital, to screen white South Africans for consideration, according to the documents obtained by the Times. The teams studied more than 8,000 requests from people who show interest in becoming refugees, and the US government identified 100 Afrikaners who could possibly be approved. Trump administration officials are instructed to concentrate on screening white Afrikaner -farmers.

The resettlement of refugees is normally largely financed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. But Mr. Trump suspended that program when he was approaching.

So the administration will rely more on another agency that has traditionally supported refugees: a refugee office at the Ministry of Health and Human Services. In recent days, that office has attracted itself to organizations that have helped refugees to prepare them for the arrival of the Afrikaners, according to a departmental memo obtained by The Times.

The administration is preparing to help the Afrikaners to find “temporary or long -term housing” and “basic home furnishings, essential household articles and cleaning supplies”, according to the Memo. The administration is also planning to help the Afrikaners “groceries, weather-entitled clothing, diapers, formula, hygiene products and prepaid phones that support the daily well-being of households,” said the memo.

Proponents of refugees said that the rapid mobilization to enable Afrikaners to have themselves reset, the inactivity of the administration on other refugees emphasized, even in the light of judicial orders.

“Thousands of refugees from all over the world remain stranded in the dark despite the fact that they have been completely screened and approved for travel, including Afghan allies, religious minorities and other population who are dealing with extreme violence and persecution,” said Timothy Young, a resorting instance. “We hope that this development will reflect a broader willingness to maintain the promise of protection for all refugees who meet long -term legal standards, regardless of their country of origin.”

Earlier this week, a federal court ordered the Trump government to eliminate the ban on refugees who were released for travel before Mr. Trump took over and to give them the opportunity to finally enter the country.

The rapid arrival of Afrikaners “flies against the government’s claims that they are unable to process already approved refugees, even after several courts have immediately assigned them,” said Melissa Keaney, senior supervisory lawyer at the International Refugee Assistance Project, in a statement. “Thousands of refugees who have been stranded illegally by President Trump’s refugee are in the uncertain and are ready to restart their lives in the United States. There is no time for apologies.”