LIVE: Afrikaners arrive in the US after Trump offered them refugee status

Ana Maria Rus

Watch live as Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau greets the first group of newly arrived Afrikaners from South Africa. A group of 49 white South Africans departed their homeland for the United States on a private charter plane having been offered refugee status by the Trump administration under a new program announced in February. They are the first Afrikaners — a white minority group in South Africa — to be relocated after President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Feb. 7

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