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Inside Trump’s Exception for White South African Refugees

John Eligon, Zolan Kanno-Youngs, Alexandra Ostasiewicz, Gabriel Blanco, James Surdam, Christina Thornell and Brent McDonald
World
May 20, 2025
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The Trump administration has welcomed white South Africans as refugees, even after suspending the refugee program for nearly all other groups. Zolan Kanno-Youngs, White House correspondent for The New York Times, and John Eligon, Johannesburg bureau chief, discuss the factors that led to this moment, in advance of this week’s White House meeting between President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa and President Trump.