Today, nearly 60 white South Africans were admitted into the United States.

It's part of President Donald Trump's resettlement program for white Afrikaners, largely

descendants of Dutch and French colonial settlers in South Africa.

Afrikaners also led the racist apartheid government there until it ended in 1994.

Today, the White House alleges that a new South African law,

which redistributes unused land to the state, is racist,

and that the white minority is being persecuted by the black-led government.

President Trump even halted all aid to South Africa back in February.

Applications from these white families were fast-tracked by the administration,

even as it suspended the U.S. refugee resettlement program, leaving thousands of approved refugees

worldwide stranded. Joining us now is Bill Freilich, the head of the Refugee and Migrants' Rights

Division at Human Rights Watch. Bill, welcome to the NewsHour. Good to be here.

So President Trump was asked about the classification of these families as refugees. Here's what

he had to say about conditions in South Africa.

It's a genocide that's taking place that you people don't want to write about, but it's a terrible

thing that's taking place. And farmers are being killed.

They happen to be white.

But whether they're white or black,

makes no difference to me.

But white farmers are being brutally killed,

and their land is being confiscated in South Africa.

White farmers being brutally killed,

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