63 m. ago Dozens of white South Africans flee for the US as refugees months after Trump said Afrikaners faced 'racial discrimination'

The 49 Afrikaners -  a white minority group in South Africa - will be relocated across the US after the White House fast-tracked their applications.

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7 h. ago First group of white South Africans leave for US after Trump offers refugee status

The South African government said it is ‘completely false’ that Afrikaners are being persecuted

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14 h. ago Trump administration offers refugee status to 49 white South Africans

Group, including families and small children, departed for US after Trump order created relocation programA group of 49 white South Africans departed their homeland on Sunday for the United States on a private charter plane having been offered refugee status by the Trump administration under a new program announced in February.The group, which included families and small children, was due to arrive at Dulles international airport outside Washington DC on Monday morning local time, according to Collen Mbisi, a spokesperson for South Africa’s transport ministry. Continue reading...

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16 h. ago First group of 49 white South Africans leaves for the US after Trump offered them refugee status

A group of 49 white South Africans has departed their homeland for the United States on a private charter plane having been offered refugee status by the Trump administration under a new program

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45 h. ago Trump is bringing white South Africans to the US as refugees. Why?

South Africa says there's no persecution

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45 h. ago Trump is bringing white South Africans to the US as refugees, but what persecution are they facing?

The Trump administration is bringing a small number of white South Africans to the United States as refugees next week in what it says is the start of a larger relocation effort

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3 d. ago First white South Africans to arrive in America despite Trump’s refugee freeze

The assertion that minority white South Africans face discrimination from the Black majority has been echoed by Trump's white South African-born ally Elon Musk

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3 d. ago US grants asylum to 54 white Afrikaner South Africans, reports say

Donald Trump has directed officials to grant refugee status to Afrikaners who he claims suffer discriminationThe US has granted refugee status to 54 white Afrikaner South Africans, who could arrive as soon as Monday in Washington DC, where they will be welcomed by government officials, according to media reports.Donald Trump suspended the US refugee settlement programme in January on his first day in office, leaving more than 100,000 people approved for resettlement stranded, having fled war and persecution in countries such as the Democratic Republic of Congo and Afghanistan. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Trump administration offers $1,000 to undocumented immigrants to leave US

DHS claims payment will be issued after individuals leave the US and it has been confirmed through their appUS politics live – latest updatesThe Trump administration has announced a new program offering a $1,000 payment to people in the US without immigration status as an incentive to return to their home country voluntarily.The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) outlined the initiative on Monday, pledging “financial and travel assistance” to undocumented immigrants who agree to leave the country using an app called CBP Home. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Migrants on sex offenders register to be blocked from claiming asylum in UK under law change

Anyone convicted of a crime in the UK which places them on the sex offenders register, regardless of the length of their sentence, will be denied refugee status under new plans

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1 week ago Iranian asylum seeker who argued he can't be deported because he's a 'sex toy smuggler' wins fight to stay in Britain

The asylum seeker who applied for refugee status in the UK claimed that Iranian authorities looked on him 'adversely' for ferrying boxes of vibrators and other adult devices across the border.

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2 w. ago Why you should pray for death in nuclear war: The sun blotted out. Endless winter. And cannibals rule as the human race starves. MARK LYNAS's meticulously researched book reveals all

Some 770 million people have been killed and skeletons are everywhere. Given what is about to unfold, they were the lucky ones. Everyone, no matter their former status, is now a refugee.

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3 w. ago Nearly 300 apply as French university offers US academics ‘scientific asylum’

Aix-Marseille University generates interest amid a US crackdown and calls for a ‘scientific refugee’ statusNearly 300 academics have applied to a French university’s offer to take in US-based researchers rattled by the American government’s crackdown on academia, as a former French president called for the creation of a “scientific refugee” status for academics in peril.Earlier this year, France’s Aix-Marseille University was among the first in Europe to respond to the funding freezes, cuts and executive orders unleashed on institutions across the US by Donald Trump’s administration. Continue reading...

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