An international publicity campaign for white farmers in South Africa has had unintended consequences.

The first group of white South Africans granted refugee status by the Trump administration arrived in the U.S. Monday.

From WN.C. in New York, this is On the Media. I'm Michael Onger.

Meanwhile, back home, Afrikaner activists are dealing with the fallout.

They were trying to get attention. They were even trying to get sanctions. They were never

trying to get refugee status. These groups are sort of like a dog that caught a car, but they

caught the car that they weren't chasing. Also on this week's show, two journalists listening

to shortwave radio in the 90s heard the modern militia movement forming in America.

It was very militant. We were Radio for Peace International.

We believed in, you know, living peaceful, spiritual lives.

And so it was really shocking to us.

It's all coming up after this.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. Brooke Ladstone is out this week. I'm Michael Lowinger. The first group of white South Africans granted refugee status by the Trump administration

arrived in the U.S. Monday. The group included 49 Afrikaners, which is an ethnic group in South

Africa, made up of descendants of European colonists.

The United States really rejects the egregious persecution of people on the basis of race in South Africa, and we welcome these people

to the United States.

Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau on Monday, answering a question from the BBC

about why Afrikaners, and not people from, say, war zones, had been granted refugee status.

The criteria are making sure that refugees did not pose any challenge to our national security

and that they could be assimilated easily into our country.

And all of these folks who have just come in today have been carefully vetted pursuant to...

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