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Fred Onyango

Trump admin finds space for 10,000 more white South African immigrants after gutting refugee program

The US State Department informed Congress that it plans on admitting 10,000 more Afrikaners from South Africa this year. This exception that the Donald Trump administration gave the group of white South African natives puzzled some because it came so soon after the administration ended the Temporary Protected Status (TPS), which included countries like Haiti, Ethiopia, Somalia, and more.

At this point in his presidency, Trump has made it abundantly clear that he considers immigration one of the primary issues plaguing the US — and the Western world in general. Programs like TPS were initially introduced to provide a humanitarian safe haven for foreign nationals who cannot return to their countries because of hostile conditions.

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