Trump favours Afrikaner refugees

Fresh government data shows that President Trump’s changes to
refugee policy have significantly altered both the number of people
admitted into the U.S. and the
countries they hail from

2025: Trump ambushes South African
President Cyril Ramaphosa, claiming that
white farmers there are targets of persecution

U.S. REFUGEE ADMISSIONS
SINCE 2000 (fiscal years,
1,000s)

Region key
Africa
Asia
Europe/Central Asia
Former Soviet Union
Latin America/Caribbean
Near East/South Asia

0
20
40
60
80
100

2000 02 04 06 08 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 2026*

Republican in
White House

Democrat

*Half-fiscal-year
results (Oct 2025
Mar 2026)

U.S. PRESIDENTS

Bill
Clinton
(from
1993)

George
W. Bush

Barack
Obama

Joe
Biden

Donald Trump

Since October 2025, 4,499 refugees have been resettled in U.S. – nearly
all of them from South Africa, with only three arriving from Afghanistan
(Near East/South Asia region)

Sources: BBC, Reuters, U.S. Department of State
Picture: Getty Images
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