A South African living in the US has recounted how she was almost attacked by Americans after being mistaken for a “refugee”.
This comes after two groups of white South Africans were granted asylum in the US under President Donald Trump’s administration. The resettlement programme is open to racial minorities who have voiced their “fear of persecution” over claims of a “white genocide” and “racial discrimination” in the country.
SOUTH AFRICAN MISTAKEN FOR ‘REFUGEE’
On her TikTok account, South African woman Dharma Houston shared her harrowing account of being targeted by Americans over her nationality.
She said, “I just got attacked in a grocery store because someone asked me where I was from. And I said ‘South Africa’”.
She continued: “One of the workers got up and said, ‘You should not be allowed in our country. They should never have let you in. They should never have granted you refugee status.’
The woman added, “I’m not a refugee. This is what it’s going to become. Everyone is going to hate South Africans.”
@homesickandhot This is coming from genuine confusion not hate ♬ original sound – Dharma Houston
PRIORITISING AFRIKANERS
Meanwhile, US media are reporting that President Trump is ramping up his plan to grant 1000 white Afrikaners “refugee status” as part of the resettlement programme.
This comes as the Trump administration indefinitely halted the US Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP) to all other countries earlier this year.
Images via X: @usembassysa
According to the Washington Post, a state department spokesperson said officials were “prioritising the US refugee resettlement of Afrikaners in South Africa who are victims of unjust racial discrimination”.
The administration is also moving to block entry for 160 refugees from other countries that had been scheduled to arrive in the US before Trump halted their admission.
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