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How White South Africans Are Convincing the U.S. to Accept Them as Refugees

Thousands of white South Africans are jockeying to get on the next flight to the United States as refugees. They say the backlash against their community is unfair.

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White South Africans waiting to hear welcome statements from U.S. government officials shortly after arriving at Washington Dulles International Airport earlier this month.

Trump Casts Himself as a Protector of Persecuted White People

22 May 2025 at 10:59
President Trump publicly dressed down the president of South Africa based on a fringe conspiracy theory, providing a vivid distillation of his views on race.

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President Donald Trump met President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa in the Oval Office on Wednesday.

Trump Claimed a Video Showed ‘Burial Sites’ of White Farmers. It Didn’t.

During a meeting with South Africa’s president, President Trump played the video as evidence of racial persecution. A Times analysis found he misrepresented the contents of the video.

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A social media video of a memorial procession in South Africa was played during a meeting between President Trump and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa.

When Trump Was the One Taking Land From Farmers

21 May 2025 at 23:51
The president has railed against South Africa’s seizures of land from white farmers. But during his first term, he pushed to take land for his border wall using eminent domain.

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Land in Donna, Texas, near the U.S. border.

Trump Lectures South African President in Televised Oval Office Confrontation

President Trump showed a video and leafed through printouts that he falsely claimed showed widespread persecution of white South Africans. The country’s president tried to correct the record.

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President Trump gestured toward a stack of papers during a tense meeting with President Cyril Ramaphosa on Wednesday in the Oval Office.
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