Trump refugee plan seeks 7,000 Afrikaners — and virtually no one else

The Trump administration’s plan to overhaul the U.S. refugee resettlement process, including a drastic reduction in overall annual admissions, coincides with a concerted effort to prepare thousands of White South Africans to relocate to the United States through the system, according to documents reviewed by The Washington Post and people familiar with the effort.

If the administration succeeds, almost all people admitted to the U.S. as refugees - as many as 7,000 from a maximum potential pool of 7,500 - could be Afrikaners, a group not traditionally eligible for the program but one that President Donald Trump says has been tyrannized by South Africa’s Black majority. The remainder may be chosen because of their ability to speak English or their views on “free speech,” people familiar wit