US claims ‘emergency refugee situation’ as it admits 10,000 more white South Africans

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According to The Guardian’s source item, US claims ‘emergency refugee situation’ as it admits 10,000 more white South Africans, Trump has repeatedly made false claims that white Afrikaners facing genocide with costs of resettling them at $100m The US government has said it will increase the number of white South Africans it admits as refugees this year from about 7,500 to 17,500, claiming that “unforeseen developments in South Africa created an emergency refugee situation.” Since starting his second term in office last year, Donald Trump has repeatedly made false claims that white Afrikaners are racially targeted and face a “white genocide” , which South Africa’s government has furiously rebutted. Continue reading…

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