“Thousands” of white South African refugees may be in the United States by the end of the summer as massive amounts of applications from Afrikaners — an ethnic minority in the country — continue to pour in, the Daily Caller reported. A U.S. Department of State official told the outlet on Friday that the Trump […]
Rubio to Sen. Kaine on Afrikaners: ‘You Don’t Like That They’re White’
Secretary of State Marco Rubio clashed with Democrats over the Trump administration’s recent acceptance of South African refugees, telling Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) that he does not “like the fact that they’re white” in a Tuesday exchange. The heated conversation took place during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, with Kaine calling the State Department’s […]
FACT CHECK: South African President Claims Afrikaners Aren’t Persecuted
CLAIM: White South Africans — members of the Afrikaner, or Boer, minority group — do not face racial discrimination or persecution by the South African government. VERDICT: FALSE. Major political leaders in the country have called for the murder of Boers to thousands of supporters, and the government recently passed a law that could lead to […]