Nigeria, May 13 -- A group of 49 Afrikaners, members of South Africa's white minority, arrived at Washington Dulles International Airport on Monday, making them the first group of South African refugees admitted under a new, highly controversial program authorized by President Donald Trump earlier this year.

The group departed Johannesburg over the weekend and landed in the United States under a special resettlement initiative created by Trump's February 2025 executive order, which accuses the South African government of enacting racially discriminatory policies that disproportionately impact white citizens.

"What's happening in South Africa is a genocide," President Trump said Monday during a signing ceremony for a separate pharmaceuti...