Trump authorizes admission of 10K additional white South African refugees

President Donald Trump authorized the admission of additional white South Africans into the United States on Tuesday, drawing calls from an Evangelical refugee resettlement agency to reinstitute the full scope of the refugee resettlement program after it was mostly halted last year.

A presidential determination filed in the Federal Register will allow for an additional 10,000 South Africans through the U.S. refugee admissions program through the end of fiscal year 2026, which raises the total refugee admission ceiling for 2026 to 17,500.

Trump declared that “an unforeseen emergency refugee situation now exists due to recent increases in the incitement of racially motivated violence on the part of the Government of South Africa and leaders of prominent political parties in South Africa, as well as new disruptions of United States Refugee Admissions Program operations in South Africa.”

“I hereby determine that the admission to the United States of Afrikaners from South Africa in response to this emergency is justified by the grave humanitarian concerns and is otherwise in the national interest, that the admission of these refugees cannot be accomplished under the refugee ceiling of 7,500 for Fiscal Year 2026 as authorized in PD 2025-13, and that an increase in the ceiling to 17,500 is warranted,” he added.

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