US Congressman Troy Nehls has introduced a controversial new bill titled the “Afrikaner Act,” aimed at granting Priority-2 refugee status to white Afrikaners from South Africa.
This legislation follows U.S. President Donald Trump’s Executive Order, which focuses on resettling Afrikaner refugees in the United States.
The “Asylum for Farmers and Refugees in Crisis and Necessary Emigration Resettlement Act” seeks to provide Priority-2 status to white Afrikaner ethnic minority groups who have faced “persecution” based on their race, ethnicity, or ancestry.
Nehls claims that the white Afrikaner population in South Africa has been subjected to unjust racial discrimination.
“The Afrikaner population in South Africa has been experiencing unjust racial discrimination, and the situation continues to get worse by the day,” said Nehls.
White Afrikaner facing ‘racial discrimination’, says US Congressman
“President Trump is right. How Afrikaners are being treated is a massive human rights violation. My bill will offer Afrikaners a pathway to the United States to flee the persecution they’ve lived through initiated by their own government.”
Those who applied still need to go through security screenings, medical tests, and background checks, although the US government has officially accepted their refugee status.
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