00:00The Trump administration has brought a group of white South Africans to the U.S. as refugees.
00:11When President Trump came to office in January, he stopped all refugee admissions coming into the United States.
00:17To put that in context, the U.S. admitted about 100,000 refugees last year from around the world.
00:22Now, the Trump administration has picked out a group of white Afrikaners from South Africa to bring in as refugees.
00:28These Afrikaners are descendants of Dutch settlers who came to South Africa in the 1600s as a minority group in South Africa.
00:37They were also responsible for the apartheid laws that allowed the minority white South Africans to rule the country from the 1940s until the 1990s.
00:46The Trump administration says that the South African government has passed laws in the last year that discriminate against these white South Africans.
00:54And they are subject to having their land taken away and have also been subject to violence.
01:00A Time reporter asked President Trump about his decision to admit white South Africans as refugees.
01:07This is what he said.
01:08It's a genocide that's taking place that you people don't want to write about, but it's a terrible thing that's taking place.
01:13Farmers are being killed.
01:15They happen to be white.
01:17But whether they're white or black makes no difference to me.
01:20The South African government says that police and crime statistics in the country do not support that.
01:25And there isn't data that shows that white South Africans have been targeted for violence.
01:30When this group of white South Africans landed in the United States, they were greeted by Trump administration officials,
01:35including a State Department official who called them quality seed and said that they would bloom inside the United States.
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