{"id":384323,"date":"2026-10-02T22:00:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T21:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/how-did-white-south-africans-become-the-face-of-trumps-refugee-policy-the-global-story\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T22:00:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T21:00:24","slug":"how-did-white-south-africans-become-the-face-of-trumps-refugee-policy-the-global-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/how-did-white-south-africans-become-the-face-of-trumps-refugee-policy-the-global-story\/","title":{"rendered":"How did white South Africans become the face of Trump\u2019s refugee policy? | The Global Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.ytimg.com\/vi\/TXngltIYX1E\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"How did white South Africans become the face of Trump\u2019s refugee policy? | The Global Story\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TXngltIYX1E\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>In the last year, the US has admitted just 13,000 refugees \u2014 a fraction of the number it has accepted in previous years. And almost all of those new arrivals have been white South Africans.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration says Afrikaners are fleeing persecution in South Africa. But there is little evidence of attacks specifically targeting the country\u2019s white Afrikaner minority. South Africa\u2019s new ambassador to the US has told the BBC that the idea of a mass attack against white Afrikaners simply does not exist.<\/p>\n<p>So why have Afrikaners been given preferential access to the US refugee programme? And what has life in America been like for those who have made the journey?<\/p>\n<p>Today on The Global Story, the BBC\u2019s North America correspondent Ione Wells and Africa producer Ed Habershon share their conversations with the Afrikaners who are using new refugee policies to immigrate to the US \u2014 and the South African officials who say the Trump administration is overlooking the full picture.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our channel here: https:\/\/bbc.in\/bbcnews<\/p>\n<p>For the latest news download the BBC News app or visit BBC.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>In this video:<\/p>\n<p>0:00 Why are white South Africans getting a fast track to the US?<br \/>\n1:00 Why were there white crosses put up in Washington&#8217;s National Mall?<br \/>\n4:11 Where does this story begin with the Trump administration?<br \/>\n6:14 The significance of Trumps executive order<br \/>\n7:12 The meeting of Donald Trump and Cyril Ramaphosa<br \/>\n9:08 Violence against white farmers<br \/>\n10:13 How many people have come through the refugee scheme?<br \/>\n11:55 Speaking to a white South African who moved to Texas<br \/>\n16:04 What is the criticism of the white genocide claims in SA?<br \/>\n19:11 The current tensions between the US and South Africa<br \/>\n20:26 Roelf Meyer interview clips<br \/>\n22:26 The Trump administration&#8217;s expansion of the refugee scheme<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our channel here: https:\/\/bbc.in\/bbcnews<\/p>\n<p>For the latest news download the BBC News app or visit BBC.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>#BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the last year, the US has admitted just 13,000 refugees \u2014 a fraction of the number it has accepted in previous years. And almost all of those new arrivals have been white South Africans. The Trump administration says Afrikaners are fleeing persecution in South Africa. But there is little evidence of attacks specifically targeting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":384324,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128810],"tags":[],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-384323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bbc-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How did white South Africans become the face of Trump\u2019s refugee policy? | The Global Story | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch How did white South Africans become the face of Trump\u2019s refugee policy? | The Global Story for free, here on News ISC. 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