President Donald Trump said that he’s allowing white farmers from South Africa to come to the United States as refugees because of the “genocide that’s taking place.”
Trump said that in a post-apartheid South Africa that white farmers are “being killed” and he plans to address the issue with South African leadership next week.
Trump said that in a post-apartheid South Africa that white farmers are “being killed” and he plans to address the issue with South African leadership next week.
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00:00I want to ask you about South African refugees.
00:02Dozens of Afrikaners who claim discrimination in their home country
00:06are heading to the United States.
00:08Your administration is going to welcome them as refugees.
00:11Now this comes as you halted virtually all refugee admissions
00:15for people fleeing famine and war
00:17from countries like Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo.
00:20Why are you creating an expediting path into the country for Afrikaners but not others?
00:25Because they're being killed.
00:27And we don't want to see people be killed.
00:30Now, South Africa leadership is coming to see me, I understand, sometime next week.
00:36And, you know, we're supposed to have a, I guess, a G20 meeting there or something.
00:41But we're having a G20 meeting.
00:42I don't know how we can go unless that situation is taken care of.
00:46But it's a genocide that's taking place that you people don't want to write about.
00:50But it's a terrible thing that's taking place.
00:52And farmers are being killed.
00:56They happen to be white.
00:58But whether they're white or black makes no difference to me.
01:01But white farmers are being brutally killed and their land is being confiscated in South Africa.
01:08And the newspapers and the media, television media, doesn't even talk about it.
01:13If it were the other way around, they'd talk about it.
01:15That would be the only story they'd talk about.
01:17And I don't care who they are.
01:19I don't care about their race, their color.
01:22I don't care about their height, their weight.
01:24I don't care about anything.
01:25I just know that what's happening is terrible.
01:27I have people that live in South Africa.
01:30They say it's a terrible situation taking place.
01:32So we've essentially extended citizenship to those people to escape from that violence and come here.
01:41Yeah.
01:42Yeah.
01:43Yeah.
01:44Yeah.
01:45Yeah.
01:46Yeah.