02/22/2026: Left Behind, South Africa's Refugees, Is That Art?
60 Minutes
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🗓️ 23 February 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Correspondent Cecilia Vega reports from McDowell County, W.Va. – once the nation’s largest coal producer, and now one of the poorest places in the country, where the food stamp program started and the opioid crisis took hold.
When President Trump said he would “permanently pause migration from all third world countries” to the U.S., there was one exception: the resettlement of white South African refugees, mostly Afrikaners. The president has said white farmers in the country are victims of genocide, a claim the government of South Africa disputes. Artificial intelligence is being used to make art that is being embraced by many of the world’s most prestigious museums and auction houses, raising an age-old question: what counts as art?Â
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| 0:00.0 | Drive 350 miles from the nation's capital to McDowell County, West Virginia, where affordability |
| 0:14.5 | is the difference between buying groceries and heating a home. |
| 0:19.0 | Clean drinking water is hard to come by here. |
| 0:21.6 | A turn of the tap can look like this. |
| 0:24.6 | This shouldn't be the case anywhere in the world, |
| 0:26.6 | let alone in the wealthiest nation in the world. |
| 0:34.6 | There is one group of refugees being welcome to the United States. |
| 0:39.4 | President Trump says white farmers from South Africa are victims of a genocide. |
| 0:43.8 | These are burial sites right here. |
| 0:48.5 | Burial sites. |
| 0:50.5 | Over a thousand of white farmers. |
| 0:55.0 | We went to South Africa to see for ourselves. |
| 0:59.0 | It definitely wasn't a burial site. |
| 1:01.0 | I mean, those crosses were there for less than 48 hours. |
| 1:04.0 | Rafiq Anadol invited us inside this space at his LA studio. |
| 1:16.5 | Every image that surrounds us, Anadol created using artificial intelligence. |
| 1:18.4 | So those are not real birds? |
| 1:18.7 | Nope. |
| 1:20.0 | Take it in. |
| 1:21.1 | Whoa. |
| 1:29.5 | A hypnotic flow of shapes and colors that can make you feel like Alice in Wonderland stumbled into Studio 54. |
| 1:32.4 | Is this a party trick? |
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