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WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 The Trump administration said Tuesday that it will admit an additional 10,000 white South Africans into the U.S. as refugees this year, increasing its historically low annual cap but still blocking people from other countries from entering through the program.<\/p>\n

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Trump suspended the refugee program on his first day in office and, since then, has turned it into a vehicle to allow Afrikaners \u2014 a group of white South Africans descended mainly from Dutch settlers \u2014 into the U.S. Advocates say the decision to focus a decades-old program on one group has left people around the world fleeing war and strife stranded and with few options.<\/p>\n

The administration says Afrikaners are subject to persecution in their home country, a charge the government in South Africa denies.<\/p>\n

In the announcement Tuesday on the Federal Register, President Donald Trump said that because of \u201can unforeseen emergency refugee situation\u201d he was raising the refugee cap. He blamed the South African government for \u201crecent increases in the incitement of racially motivated violence\u201d but gave no specific information.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hereby determine that the admission to the United States of Afrikaners from South Africa in response to this emergency is justified by the grave humanitarian concerns and is otherwise in the national interest,\u201d Trump said in the announcement.<\/p>\n

The administration indicated last year that it would admit up to 7,500, mostly Afrikaners, during the fiscal year stretching from October 2025 through September 2026, but last week, in a notice to Congress informing it of the increase, the administration said that \u201cunforeseen developments in South Africa created an emergency refugee situation.\u201d The change raises the limit to 17,500.<\/p>\n

The State Department has already admitted more than 6,000 people through the refugee program since the beginning of the fiscal year in October, according to official data. All of those were from South Africa except for three people from Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

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Presidents set the cap on how many refugees the U.S. will admit each year, and historically, they\u2019ve allocated those numbers across various geographic regions while factoring in wars or conflicts that spark humanitarian needs around the globe.<\/p>\n

The refugee program, administered by the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security, is distinct from asylum. People hoping to come through the refugee program must be living abroad and undergo vetting and other checks before being admitted to the U.S., whereas those seeking asylum are already on U.S. soil.<\/p>\n

During his first administration, Trump slashed the number of refugees he admitted every year. Then the Biden administration built the system back up, setting a goal of admitting 125,000 refugees in his last year in office.<\/p>\n

Groups that have for decades helped resettle refugees in the U.S. have sued to allow people who were in the refugee application process but are now stranded to be allowed to come to the U.S.<\/p>\n

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\u201cFor nearly half a century, the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program embodied a simple but powerful, bipartisan idea: that the United States would offer safety to the world\u2019s most vulnerable refugees,\u201d said Beth Oppenheim, President & CEO of HIAS, in a statement. \u201cThis administration is now dismantling that legacy in plain sight.\u201d<\/p>\n

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