Трампын засаг захиргаа дүрвэгсдийг хүлээн авах үйл ажиллагаагаа өөрчилж, АНУ-ын иргэншил, цагаачлалын албаны ажилтнуудыг зөвхөн Өмнөд Африкт байршуулах шийдвэр гаргажээ.
2025 оноос хойш АНУ-ын Дотоодын аюулгүй байдлын яам дүрвэгсдийг хүлээн авах үйл ажиллагаагаа зөвхөн Өмнөд Африкт төвлөрүүлэх болсон байна. Үүний улмаас 2026 оны санхүүгийн жилд хүлээн авсан нийт дүрвэгсдийн 99.9 хувь нь буюу 7,727 хүн тус улсаас иржээ. Харьцуулбал, Трампыг албан тушаалаа авахаас өмнөх жилд Өмнөд Африкаас ердөө нэг дүрвэгч хүлээн авч байсан түүхтэй.
Ерөнхийлөгч Дональд Трамп Өмнөд Африкт цагаан арьст иргэд, ялангуяа Африкянерчууд хавчигдан гадуурхагдаж, тэдний эсрэг “геноцид” үйлдэгдэж байна хэмээн мэдэгдсээр ирсэн. Үүнтэй холбогдуулан АНУ-ын засаг захиргаа тус улсаас ирэх дүрвэгсдэд онцгой эрх олгох замыг нээж, бусад улс орноос ирэх дүрвэгсдийн хөтөлбөрийг бараг бүхэлд нь хязгаарлаад байна.
Энэхүү шийдвэр нь дүрвэгсдийн асуудал эрхэлсэн албаны ажилтнуудын дунд шүүмжлэл дагуулж байна. Албаны хуучин ажилтнуудын зүгээс дүрвэгсдийн хөтөлбөрийн нөөцийг нэг улс болон тодорхой нэг угсаатны бүлэгт чиглүүлж, бусад орны иргэдийг бүрэн орхигдуулж байгаа нь урьд өмнө гарч байгаагүй үзэгдэл гэж үзэж байгаа аж.
Өмнөд Африкийн засгийн газар болон албаны хүмүүс тус улсад цагаан арьст иргэдийг тусгайлан онилсон халдлага үйлдэгддэг гэх мэдээллийг үгүйсгэдэг. Тэдний тайлбарласнаар, тус улсын гэмт хэргийн нөхцөл байдал нь бүх арьс өнгөний төлөөлөлд ижил тэгш хамааралтай бөгөөд нийгмийн бүхий л давхаргад нөлөөлдөг болохыг онцолж байна.
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Tens of millions of refugees are scattered across the globe, many hailing from conflict-ravaged countries such as Afghanistan, Sudan and Syria. Yet according to a new report, the Trump administration has concentrated its refugee operations in a single, comparatively prosperous nation.
Since 2025, Department of Homeland Security refugee agents have operated exclusively in South Africa, where President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed white citizens are under threat, NOTUS reported Thursday. Working through U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, these agents interview applicants and determine whether they qualify for resettlement in the U.S.
The result has been a striking shift in who gets in. By June, 99.9 percent of refugees admitted in fiscal year 2026 — 7,727 out of 7,730 — were from South Africa. By comparison, in the year before Trump took office, just one South African refugee was admitted.
Veterans of the system have said the singular focus on one ethnic group is without precedent.
“To basically repurpose the entire refugee program and concentrate all of its resources on one location for one politically and racially favored group and then exclude everyone else is, frankly, heartbreaking,” Jason Marks, a former USCIS employee, told NOTUS.
“You started to hear, ‘So-and-so’s going to South Africa,’” said Brandon Prelogar, who led the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ International and Refugee Affairs Division at the start of the Trump administration. “It was almost like, are we being trolled here? Is this like a trolling exercise?”
The Independent has contacted USCIS for comment.
As part of his broader crackdown on both illegal and legal migration, Trump suspended the refugee program on his first day back in office, shutting the door on those fleeing war and persecution.
But an exception soon followed. The administration carved out a pathway for South Africa’s Afrikaners — a white minority group descended from European settlers — whom the White House has described as “victims of unjust racial discrimination.”
Trump has claimed that a “genocide” is underway in South Africa, stating that Afrikaners “are being killed and slaughtered, and their land and farms are being illegally confiscated.” Elon Musk, who was born in South Africa during apartheid, has echoed those claims.
During an Oval Office meeting last year, Trump showed South African President Cyril Ramaphosa what he said was evidence of white farmers were under attack. South African officials pushed back, emphasizing that crime impacted all populations.
White South Africans make up roughly 7 percent of the population but own about 75 percent of the land and earn nearly three times the average wage of black workers, according to NBC News. And while Afrikaners have been subject to violence, there is no official data indicating they are disproportionately targeted.
Last year, Ramaphosa signed a controversial law allowing the state to enact land seizures without compensation in circumstances where it is deemed “just and equitable and in the public interest.”
