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Andre, his wife, and their six-year-old son were approved to leave South Africa and come to the United States as refugees more than 200 days ago.<\/p>\n

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\u201cLiterally three days before departure, they cancelled the tickets and said don\u2019t make any drastic changes. That was too late, we were already totally committed for the program,\u201d Andre, who requested that his full name be withheld due to threats, told The Daily Wire.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe gave away everything \u2026 we basically used up all our savings, we are close to being on the street,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Andre\u2019s story is just one of many Afrikaners \u2014 South Africa\u2019s white population \u2014 who were approved to come to the United States as refugees escaping racial persecution, received airline tickets, and then had their trips cancelled. The Daily Wire spoke with several approved refugees who remain stuck in South Africa, with no answers.<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump signed an executive order in February 2025 to allow Afrikaners, \u201cwho are victims of unjust racial discrimination,\u201d into the United States as refugees and to prioritize their admissions.<\/p>\n

All the while, Trump cut total annual refugee admissions from 125,000 to 7,500.<\/p>\n

Trump is said to be considering increasing the annual refugee cap to 17,500 to support more white Afrikaners, CNN reported Monday. It\u2019s not clear if that would help the many Afrikaners who are stuck in limbo.<\/p>\n

Afrikaners are an ethnic minority in South Africa who descended from Dutch and French Huguenot settlers. The Trump administration has said they\u2019re victims of a racial genocide in South Africa.<\/p>\n

Last May, Trump confronted the South African president, who denied the existence of a white genocide, during a visit to Washington by showing him video of calls to violence by government officials in South Africa.<\/p>\n

One clip featured in the video showed Julius Malema, a member of South Africa\u2019s National Assembly, singing \u201cKill the Boer\u201d at a political rally, a reference to Afrikaners.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s refugee policy changes prompted left-leaning groups like the Church World Service (CWS), a faith-based group, to take the Trump administration to court challenging its \u201cdiscriminatory preference for white Afrikaners.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite suing the government, CWS is now playing an integral role in the Trump administration\u2019s refugee resettlement program for Afrikaners through its Resettlement Support Center Africa (RSC). The nonprofit organization has worked with the federal government to resettle refugees since 1980.<\/p>\n

Trump attempted to freeze funding and cancelled contracts to organizations involved in refugee resettlement, like CWS, but some of the attempts have been blocked by courts.<\/p>\n

The federal government has shelled out more than $246 million in grants to the organization, with the funds making up roughly 87% of the group\u2019s income, according\u00a0to its website.<\/p>\n

The Afrikaners notified by CWS that their one-way tickets to the United States were canceled said the organization has left them in the dark regarding the fate of their cases. In many instances, their medical evaluations expired, forcing them to redo that part of the process, which for some means taking hours-long drives and booking hotel stays to complete new vaccinations and testing.<\/p>\n

Some of them had already sold their cars after being told they would leave the country within days or weeks.<\/p>\n

The overseas medical exams are valid for only six months,\u00a0according\u00a0to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).<\/p>\n

Andre, who was set to be resettled in Fort Worth, Texas, described CWS\u2019 role in the resettlement of Afrikaners as \u201chorrific,\u201d saying \u201cthey do not respond to any emails \u2026 you can\u2019t call them, you can\u2019t ask for any information.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you do get a reply back it\u2019s an automated response,\u201d Andre said.<\/p>\n

One Afrikaner woman, who requested anonymity for her safety, applied for refugee status in May 2025 and received her flight tickets in January.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI was very, very happy, very grateful and I was ready to go. I rushed home, packed up everything, got rid of everything,\u201d she told The Daily Wire.<\/p>\n

Days before her scheduled departure, CWS notified her that her trip had been canceled and that her case \u201cwent back to in progress.\u201d<\/p>\n

By that time, she had already quit her full-time job and gotten rid of most of her belongings. She remains stuck in South Africa.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe got an email saying now we\u2019re under review now and since then it\u2019s been dead silence,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s like giving a child some candy and just before they put it in their mouth, they take it back. It was terrifying,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

Her medical evaluation then expired in April and she had to go back and redo the required testing and vaccinations.<\/p>\n

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), which processes the cases, didn\u2019t respond to The Daily Wire\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n

A State Department spokesperson told The Daily Wire that \u201cPresident Trump has been very clear that we are prioritizing the resettlement of Afrikaners in South Africa who are escaping government-sponsored race-based discrimination.\u201d The spokesperson declined to comment \u201con the details of specific refugee cases.\u201d<\/p>\n

Without answers on their cases, many of the refugees are forced to live among their threats. Some move from house to house to avoid attacks and many rarely leave their homes after facing violent attacks and racial discrimination.<\/p>\n

One Afrikaner woman who also spoke on the condition of anonymity said she applied for the refugee program after her family faced racially motivated attacks, including one where her daughter was raped and the police refused to act.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe police said she asked for it,\u201d the woman said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis child was broken. My kids have got no future in this country \u2026 And now we\u2019re sitting, we\u2019re waiting, we\u2019re not hearing. We\u2019re stressed, we don\u2019t know what\u2019s going on. This thing has taken such a toll on us,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

Several Afrikaners who spoke with us said their children wouldn\u2019t be able to secure jobs after school because they\u2019re white.<\/p>\n

But one message was clear, the Afrikaners don\u2019t want Americans to perceive them as entitled. They made clear that they want to work and lead self-sufficient lives in the safety of the United States.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we get there, I don\u2019t want to be dependent on the United States government to just provide and, provide and provide,\u201d Pierre, an Afrikaner living in Cape Town and still awaiting the fate of his case after applying over a year ago, said.<\/p>\n

Pierre and his wife\u2019s medical evaluations expired in April and CWS still hasn\u2019t rescheduled their appointments, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t want anybody to think that we\u2019re entitled to this, or we\u2019re trying to demand anything. It\u2019s just that it\u2019s become really unbearable in South Africa,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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CWS didn\u2019t respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Andre, his wife, and their six-year-old son were approved to leave South Africa and come to the United States as refugees more than 200 days ago.\u201cLiterally three days before departure, they cancelled the tickets and said don\u2019t make any drastic changes. That was too late, we were already totally committed for the program,\u201d Andre, who requested that his full name be withheld due to threats, told The Daily Wire.\u201cWe gave away everything \u2026 we basically used up all our savings, we are close to being on the street,\u201d he said.Andre\u2019s story is just one of many Afrikaners \u2014 South Africa\u2019s white population \u2014 who were approved to come to the United States as refugees escaping racial persecution, received airline tickets, and then had their trips cancelled. The Daily Wire spoke with several approved refugees who remain stuck in South Africa, with no answers.President Donald Trump signed an executive order in February 2025 to allow Afrikaners, \u201cwho are victims of unjust racial discrimination,\u201d into the United States as refugees and to prioritize their admissions.All the while, Trump cut total annual refugee admissions from 125,000 to 7,500.Trump is said to be considering increasing the annual refugee cap to 17,500 to support more white Afrikaners, CNN reported Monday. It\u2019s not clear if that would help the many Afrikaners who are stuck in limbo.Afrikaners are an ethnic minority in South Africa who descended from Dutch and French Huguenot settlers. The Trump administration has said they\u2019re victims of a racial genocide in South Africa.Last May, Trump confronted the South African president, who denied the existence of a white genocide, during a visit to Washington by showing him video of calls to violence by government officials in South Africa.One clip featured in the video showed Julius Malema, a member of South Africa\u2019s National Assembly, singing \u201cKill the Boer\u201d at a political rally, a reference to Afrikaners.Trump\u2019s refugee policy changes prompted left-leaning groups like the Church World Service (CWS), a faith-based group, to take the Trump administration to court challenging its \u201cdiscriminatory preference for white Afrikaners.\u201dDespite suing the government, CWS is now playing an integral role in the Trump administration\u2019s refugee resettlement program for Afrikaners through its Resettlement Support Center Africa (RSC). The nonprofit organization has worked with the federal government to resettle refugees since 1980.Trump attempted to freeze funding and cancelled contracts to organizations involved in refugee resettlement, like CWS, but some of the attempts have been blocked by courts.The federal government has shelled out more than $246 million in grants to the organization, with the funds making up roughly 87% of the group\u2019s income, according\u00a0to its website.The Afrikaners notified by CWS that their one-way tickets to the United States were canceled said the organization has left them in the dark regarding the fate of their cases. In many instances, their medical evaluations expired, forcing them to redo that part of the process, which for some means taking hours-long drives and booking hotel stays to complete new vaccinations and testing.Some of them had already sold their cars after being told they would leave the country within days or weeks.The overseas medical exams are valid for only six months,\u00a0according\u00a0to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).Andre, who was set to be resettled in Fort Worth, Texas, described CWS\u2019 role in the resettlement of Afrikaners as \u201chorrific,\u201d saying \u201cthey do not respond to any emails \u2026 you can\u2019t call them, you can\u2019t ask for any information.\u201d\u201cIf you do get a reply back it\u2019s an automated response,\u201d Andre said.One Afrikaner woman, who requested anonymity for her safety, applied for refugee status in May 2025 and received her flight tickets in January.\u201cI was very, very happy, very grateful and I was ready to go. I rushed home, packed up everything, got rid of everything,\u201d she told The Daily Wire.Days before her scheduled departure, CWS notified her that her trip had been canceled and that her case \u201cwent back to in progress.\u201dBy that time, she had already quit her full-time job and gotten rid of most of her belongings. She remains stuck in South Africa.\u201cWe got an email saying now we\u2019re under review now and since then it\u2019s been dead silence,\u201d she said.\u201cIt\u2019s like giving a child some candy and just before they put it in their mouth, they take it back. It was terrifying,\u201d she added.Her medical evaluation then expired in April and she had to go back and redo the required testing and vaccinations.U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), which processes the cases, didn\u2019t respond to The Daily Wire\u2019s request for comment.A State Department spokesperson told The Daily Wire that \u201cPresident Trump has been very clear that we are prioritizing the resettlement of Afrikaners in South Africa who are escaping government-sponsored race-based discrimination.\u201d The spokesperson declined to comment \u201con the details of specific refugee cases.\u201dWithout answers on their cases, many of the refugees are forced to live among their threats. Some move from house to house to avoid attacks and many rarely leave their homes after facing violent attacks and racial discrimination.One Afrikaner woman who also spoke on the condition of anonymity said she applied for the refugee program after her family faced racially motivated attacks, including one where her daughter was raped and the police refused to act.\u201cThe police said she asked for it,\u201d the woman said.\u201cThis child was broken. My kids have got no future in this country \u2026 And now we\u2019re sitting, we\u2019re waiting, we\u2019re not hearing. We\u2019re stressed, we don\u2019t know what\u2019s going on. This thing has taken such a toll on us,\u201d she added.Several Afrikaners who spoke with us said their children wouldn\u2019t be able to secure jobs after school because they\u2019re white.But one message was clear, the Afrikaners don\u2019t want Americans to perceive them as entitled. They made clear that they want to work and lead self-sufficient lives in the safety of the United States.\u201cWhen we get there, I don\u2019t want to be dependent on the United States government to just provide and, provide and provide,\u201d Pierre, an Afrikaner living in Cape Town and still awaiting the fate of his case after applying over a year ago, said.Pierre and his wife\u2019s medical evaluations expired in April and CWS still hasn\u2019t rescheduled their appointments, he said.\u201cI don\u2019t want anybody to think that we\u2019re entitled to this, or we\u2019re trying to demand anything. It\u2019s just that it\u2019s become really unbearable in South Africa,\u201d he said.CWS didn\u2019t respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-original"],"yoast_head":"\nLeftist Group Leaves White South African Refugees Out To Dry While Fighting Trump In Court - Blue Route Journal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=40\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Leftist Group Leaves White South African Refugees Out To Dry While Fighting Trump In Court - Blue Route Journal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Andre, his wife, and their six-year-old son were approved to leave South Africa and come to the United States as refugees more than 200 days ago.\u201cLiterally three days before departure, they cancelled the tickets and said don\u2019t make any drastic changes. That was too late, we were already totally committed for the program,\u201d Andre, who requested that his full name be withheld due to threats, told The Daily Wire.\u201cWe gave away everything \u2026 we basically used up all our savings, we are close to being on the street,\u201d he said.Andre\u2019s story is just one of many Afrikaners \u2014 South Africa\u2019s white population \u2014 who were approved to come to the United States as refugees escaping racial persecution, received airline tickets, and then had their trips cancelled. 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The nonprofit organization has worked with the federal government to resettle refugees since 1980.Trump attempted to freeze funding and cancelled contracts to organizations involved in refugee resettlement, like CWS, but some of the attempts have been blocked by courts.The federal government has shelled out more than $246 million in grants to the organization, with the funds making up roughly 87% of the group\u2019s income, according\u00a0to its website.The Afrikaners notified by CWS that their one-way tickets to the United States were canceled said the organization has left them in the dark regarding the fate of their cases. 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I rushed home, packed up everything, got rid of everything,\u201d she told The Daily Wire.Days before her scheduled departure, CWS notified her that her trip had been canceled and that her case \u201cwent back to in progress.\u201dBy that time, she had already quit her full-time job and gotten rid of most of her belongings. She remains stuck in South Africa.\u201cWe got an email saying now we\u2019re under review now and since then it\u2019s been dead silence,\u201d she said.\u201cIt\u2019s like giving a child some candy and just before they put it in their mouth, they take it back. It was terrifying,\u201d she added.Her medical evaluation then expired in April and she had to go back and redo the required testing and vaccinations.U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), which processes the cases, didn\u2019t respond to The Daily Wire\u2019s request for comment.A State Department spokesperson told The Daily Wire that \u201cPresident Trump has been very clear that we are prioritizing the resettlement of Afrikaners in South Africa who are escaping government-sponsored race-based discrimination.\u201d The spokesperson declined to comment \u201con the details of specific refugee cases.\u201dWithout answers on their cases, many of the refugees are forced to live among their threats. 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That was too late, we were already totally committed for the program,\u201d Andre, who requested that his full name be withheld due to threats, told The Daily Wire.\u201cWe gave away everything \u2026 we basically used up all our savings, we are close to being on the street,\u201d he said.Andre\u2019s story is just one of many Afrikaners \u2014 South Africa\u2019s white population \u2014 who were approved to come to the United States as refugees escaping racial persecution, received airline tickets, and then had their trips cancelled. The Daily Wire spoke with several approved refugees who remain stuck in South Africa, with no answers.President Donald Trump signed an executive order in February 2025 to allow Afrikaners, \u201cwho are victims of unjust racial discrimination,\u201d into the United States as refugees and to prioritize their admissions.All the while, Trump cut total annual refugee admissions from 125,000 to 7,500.Trump is said to be considering increasing the annual refugee cap to 17,500 to support more white Afrikaners, CNN reported Monday. It\u2019s not clear if that would help the many Afrikaners who are stuck in limbo.Afrikaners are an ethnic minority in South Africa who descended from Dutch and French Huguenot settlers. The Trump administration has said they\u2019re victims of a racial genocide in South Africa.Last May, Trump confronted the South African president, who denied the existence of a white genocide, during a visit to Washington by showing him video of calls to violence by government officials in South Africa.One clip featured in the video showed Julius Malema, a member of South Africa\u2019s National Assembly, singing \u201cKill the Boer\u201d at a political rally, a reference to Afrikaners.Trump\u2019s refugee policy changes prompted left-leaning groups like the Church World Service (CWS), a faith-based group, to take the Trump administration to court challenging its \u201cdiscriminatory preference for white Afrikaners.\u201dDespite suing the government, CWS is now playing an integral role in the Trump administration\u2019s refugee resettlement program for Afrikaners through its Resettlement Support Center Africa (RSC). The nonprofit organization has worked with the federal government to resettle refugees since 1980.Trump attempted to freeze funding and cancelled contracts to organizations involved in refugee resettlement, like CWS, but some of the attempts have been blocked by courts.The federal government has shelled out more than $246 million in grants to the organization, with the funds making up roughly 87% of the group\u2019s income, according\u00a0to its website.The Afrikaners notified by CWS that their one-way tickets to the United States were canceled said the organization has left them in the dark regarding the fate of their cases. In many instances, their medical evaluations expired, forcing them to redo that part of the process, which for some means taking hours-long drives and booking hotel stays to complete new vaccinations and testing.Some of them had already sold their cars after being told they would leave the country within days or weeks.The overseas medical exams are valid for only six months,\u00a0according\u00a0to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).Andre, who was set to be resettled in Fort Worth, Texas, described CWS\u2019 role in the resettlement of Afrikaners as \u201chorrific,\u201d saying \u201cthey do not respond to any emails \u2026 you can\u2019t call them, you can\u2019t ask for any information.\u201d\u201cIf you do get a reply back it\u2019s an automated response,\u201d Andre said.One Afrikaner woman, who requested anonymity for her safety, applied for refugee status in May 2025 and received her flight tickets in January.\u201cI was very, very happy, very grateful and I was ready to go. I rushed home, packed up everything, got rid of everything,\u201d she told The Daily Wire.Days before her scheduled departure, CWS notified her that her trip had been canceled and that her case \u201cwent back to in progress.\u201dBy that time, she had already quit her full-time job and gotten rid of most of her belongings. She remains stuck in South Africa.\u201cWe got an email saying now we\u2019re under review now and since then it\u2019s been dead silence,\u201d she said.\u201cIt\u2019s like giving a child some candy and just before they put it in their mouth, they take it back. It was terrifying,\u201d she added.Her medical evaluation then expired in April and she had to go back and redo the required testing and vaccinations.U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), which processes the cases, didn\u2019t respond to The Daily Wire\u2019s request for comment.A State Department spokesperson told The Daily Wire that \u201cPresident Trump has been very clear that we are prioritizing the resettlement of Afrikaners in South Africa who are escaping government-sponsored race-based discrimination.\u201d The spokesperson declined to comment \u201con the details of specific refugee cases.\u201dWithout answers on their cases, many of the refugees are forced to live among their threats. Some move from house to house to avoid attacks and many rarely leave their homes after facing violent attacks and racial discrimination.One Afrikaner woman who also spoke on the condition of anonymity said she applied for the refugee program after her family faced racially motivated attacks, including one where her daughter was raped and the police refused to act.\u201cThe police said she asked for it,\u201d the woman said.\u201cThis child was broken. My kids have got no future in this country \u2026 And now we\u2019re sitting, we\u2019re waiting, we\u2019re not hearing. We\u2019re stressed, we don\u2019t know what\u2019s going on. This thing has taken such a toll on us,\u201d she added.Several Afrikaners who spoke with us said their children wouldn\u2019t be able to secure jobs after school because they\u2019re white.But one message was clear, the Afrikaners don\u2019t want Americans to perceive them as entitled. They made clear that they want to work and lead self-sufficient lives in the safety of the United States.\u201cWhen we get there, I don\u2019t want to be dependent on the United States government to just provide and, provide and provide,\u201d Pierre, an Afrikaner living in Cape Town and still awaiting the fate of his case after applying over a year ago, said.Pierre and his wife\u2019s medical evaluations expired in April and CWS still hasn\u2019t rescheduled their appointments, he said.\u201cI don\u2019t want anybody to think that we\u2019re entitled to this, or we\u2019re trying to demand anything. It\u2019s just that it\u2019s become really unbearable in South Africa,\u201d he said.CWS didn\u2019t respond to a request for comment.","og_url":"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=40","og_site_name":"Blue Route Journal","article_published_time":"2026-05-21T11:38:15+00:00","author":"admin","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"admin","Est. reading time":"6 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=40#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=40"},"author":{"name":"admin","@id":"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/#\/schema\/person\/19da116f8d79cf8987781569801c6b7c"},"headline":"Leftist Group Leaves White South African Refugees Out To Dry While Fighting Trump In Court","datePublished":"2026-05-21T11:38:15+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=40"},"wordCount":1172,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=40#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/8a688f7ba3779f509343ff331127e68a.avif","articleSection":["Original"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=40#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=40","url":"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=40","name":"Leftist Group Leaves White South African Refugees Out To Dry While Fighting Trump In Court - 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