President Trump Signs EO to Accept 17,500 White Afrikaner Refugees

The Trump administration intends to accept a further 10,000 Afrikaner refugees into the United States in addition to the 6,000 Afrikaners already accepted, raising the 2026 cap to 17,500. Meanwhile, several patriotic Afrikaner organizations appealed to President Trump to help Afrikaners stay in their ancestral home.

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump announced he was increasing the refugee cap for white South Africans because of “an unforeseen emergency refugee situation”, signing an executive order to “increase the ceiling to 17,500.” Trump blamed the South African government for “recent increases in the incitement of racially motivated violence”...

The South African Foreign Ministry spokesperson Chrispin Phiri denied accusations of systemic persecution of Afrikaners despite years of documentation of horrific farm murders through advocacy groups like AfriForum’s annual reports...

AfriForum recorded 184 farm attack incidents and 29 farm murders for 2025. The number of farm attacks increased slightly from 176 in 2024 to 184 in 2025, while the number of farm murders declined from 37 in 2024 to 29 in 2025. Farm attacks are often marked by excessive cruelty and even torture, often against elderly farm couples on isolated holdings. Attackers often employ military tactics, overcoming security fences and other barriers with heavy-duty equipment such as radio jammers...

The ANC government has also instituted a regimen of racial quotas (Black Economic Empowerment – BEE) that effectively shut white South Africans out of the labor market, and taken steps to eradicate the unique Afrikaner culture from education and public monuments...

“Thousands of South Africans are fleeing to America to escape your government’s Left-wing policies. Unemployment still remains at 33% while you and corrupt government elites get rich while promoting race-based laws and chanting “Kill the Boer.”...