Foreign Minister Marco Rubio defended a controversial new policy in the Trump administration that grants the refugee situation to Al -Bayda in South Africa days after the first group Access to the United StatesPeople should say “celebrate” this step, not criticizing it.
“Our lecture has often been made by people everywhere on how the United States needs to continue to be a beacon for those who are persecuted abroad. Well, here is an example where we do so,” “Facing the nation with Margaret Brennan“
Last week, 59 people from the African South African community – South Africa, arrived largely from the Dutch settlers – to the United States, after President Trump was earlier this year. wave His government to allow South Africa of European origin, and Afrikanis in particular, to resettle through the American Refugee Program.
The White House, along with South African citizen, Elon Musk, claimed that the white South Africa was the target of repression by the country’s government, pointing to a law that argue that he is racist enthusiastic and allows the government to seize the lands owned by private ownership under certain circumstances. Until 1994, South Africa was under the white rule, as the brutal system of racist semester was implemented on the country’s black majority.
President Trump signed an executive order in February directing his government to stop aid to South Africa, and claimed that the genocide was underway in the country, saying that some white farmers had been killed. In response to a question about whether there is evidence of genocide, Rubio said, “I think there is evidence, of course, that people have been killed, and that people have been removed by force of their property.”
South Africa does not launch crime numbers by race. according to BBC News12 people were killed in agricultural attacks of 6,953 people who were killed in the country between October and December 2024. Among the 12, one of them was a farmer, while others were residents of the farm or employees.
“These are people, based on their race, who enjoy their characteristics away from them, their lives are threatened, and in some cases they were killed,” Rubio added.
He urged that “moving here from half a world far away and left behind the only homeland that I knew at all, this is not something people do lightly,” on the pretext that “these people do this for some reason.”
“So we welcome them in the United States, and I think there may be more soon,” he said.
Comments come as South African President Cyril Ramavusa was appointed Visit the White House This week, amid tensions with the Trump administration, as the South African government strongly denied the demands for land confiscation and racial discrimination.
