President Donald Trump's deputy secretary of state, Christopher Landau, spoke to the press while welcoming a group of over 50 Afrikaner refugees.
Trump announced a new executive order on Monday morning that would help individuals who were part of a genocide in South Africa of white farmers, he said.
The Afrikaners landed in the United States and were welcomed by Landau.
Speaking to BBC News, the top state department official brought up the Expropriation Act, so named because it allows for the expropriation without compensation of farmland.
"A fair number of these refugees were farmers who have farmed this particular land for generations and now face the threat not only of expropriation but also of direct violence," said Landau to a group of reporters.
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Several of them said they've had invasions of their homes and farms, he said, and that there was "a real lack of interest or success of the government in doing anything about this situation, as well as several, very vociferous South African politicians repeating things like, 'kill the boer.' 'Kill the Afrikaner.'"
"These people have been living under a shadow of violence and terror for some time now," Landau said.
The BBC reporter noted that many people around the world meet the criteria of refugee status. She especially cited Afghans who helped the United States and sought safety from the Taliban.
"They're being denied refugee status," the reporter said, then asking why more of an effort is being made to help the Afrikaners.
Landau said that under former President Joe Biden's administration, many people were allowed into the United States through the refugee program. He claimed "we were not sure" those refugees "had been carefully vetted for national security issues."
"Some of the criteria is making sure that refugees did not pose any challenge to our national security and that they could be assimilated easily into our country," he added.
The issue is something that tech billionaire, Elon Musk, has been calling a genocide since February, NBC News reported at the time. Musk was born and raised in South Africa before moving to Canada in 1989 and then to the United States, a Newsweek biography said.
Human rights lawyer and SiriusXM host Qasim Rashid fact-checked the claim.
"Afghan refugees were vetted by the same process all refugees go through," he wrote on Bluesky. "No refugee has ever been a security threat to USA. 2. The Afrikaaners aren't persecuted. They're 7% of the population and own 70% of the land. 3. 'Assimilation' is their whitewashed way of saying 'white.'"
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