# How did white South Africans become the face of Trump’s refugee policy?

https://mins.news/en/video/83939

- BBC News, 2026-10-02 18:00 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXngltIYX1E

> The US admitted only 13,000 refugees over the past year, far fewer than in previous years, and nearly all the new arrivals were white South Africans. The Trump administration says Afrikaners are escaping persecution, but there is little evidence of attacks specifically targeting South Africa’s white Afrikaner minority.