Other fugitives in suspended condition when the US welcomes white South African

The man slept on the street on the parking lot at night in Kenya with his wife and infant in January, consumed by confusion and distrust.

Family, fugitives from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), was waiting for a flight to the US for a few hours.

But after US President Donald Trump suspended the US refugee program only two days before the planned family departure, the man said that their flight to America was sharply canceled-less than 24 hours before takeoff.

“I was nowhere else,” said a man who asked for a Pacthus name to defend his personality, BBC.

He had already moved from his family from his home, sold furniture and most of his things, and prepared for a new life in America. They remain in Kenya, which is a safer perspective than the DRC where they fled with the conflict.

They represent only three of the approximately 120,000 refugees who were conditionally approved to enter the United States, but who are now expecting a suspended state of the refugee pause.

Trump’s relocation signaled the major changes in the approach followed by consistent American leaders. Under former President Joe Biden, more than 100,000 refugees came to the United States in 2024, the highest annual figure for almost three decades.

From the moment of entering the office in January, Trump quickly moved to make a promise of the “American First” company, which participated in sharply restrictions on the routes on which migrants could come to the United States.

These efforts also included a grandiose deportation program, which was deported to the notorious mega in the salvador against the orders of the judge, as well as withdraw visas from more than a thousand students of the university, as well as offering illegal immigrants for $ 1000 per “self-dedication”.

The White House defended its actions, believing that many of those who are forced from the country, or are cruel criminals or threaten America’s interests.

But the policy exceptions were made for selected several.

In February, the president signed an executive order that opened the path of refugees exclusively by African – the White South African, who, he said, fell victim to “racial discrimination”.

The aircraft, which transported 59 of them, landed at the airport near Washington earlier this month, at a ceremonial greeting, which included the Deputy Secretary of State.

“It’s not fair,” Pacthit commented. “There are 120,000 refugees that have undergone the whole process, check, security, medical boxes.

The situation left the feeling of Pacthus. Because he sold all the equipment he needed to work in his field of music, he has struggled for the last few months to find strange jobs to make money for his family. “It’s hard,” he said.

Trump also justified his decision to make African -refugees as refugees in the US because he says they face a “genocide” – a message repeated by Elon Musk, his South African ally.

Such claims have been extended over the years, although widely discredited and denied in South Africa.

However, the call accepted the new animus, especially among the right-wing groups in the US-South Africa, which allowed the government to seize land from white landowners, “if it is fair and fair in public interest.” The post-ashoid law was intended to resolve frustration around the southern African land of disproportionate property; The white population of the country is approximately 7%, but has approximately 72% of farmland.

Despite the fact that South Africa’s President Kirill Ramaphos said he had not passed the land under the new law, a few days after it was adopted, Trump ordered the US to freeze hundreds of millions of assistance to the country. Then followed the diplomatic hostility.

Wednesday on Wednesday, during a tense meeting of the White House between the couple’s couple, relationships were laid. Trump was ambushed by Ramaphos on live television with the demands of the White “persecution” – Ramaphos’ accusations strongly rejected.

Analysts have described a broader foreign policy of Trump as an isolationist, with many steps taken to reduce foreign aid and disabled US from foreign conflicts, except for reducing immigration.

Trump also stopped tens of billions of dollars in world contracts to help – including funds that supported HIV/AIDS in South Africa. He justified the cuts, saying that his team had determined fraud within the costs to help.

The relocations are in sharp contrast to the White House decision to quickly track the arrival of the White South Africans – a fact that criticizes refugee promotion groups.

“Every case of defense should be based on reliable persecution, and the main issue is justice and the same attitude to the law,” said Timothy Young of the non-profit organization Global Sucfue The BBC.

“Thus, if one group can access the humanitarian routes, then Afghan allies, persecuting religious minorities and thousands of other families who face serious threats and complying with the legal refugee status,” Mr. Young said.

Among other steps, the Trump administration decided not to restore the temporary protected status for Afghans in the US, saying that “Afghanistan had an improvement in the security situation” and “stabilization economy”. They are now facing deportation.

South Africa does not release the figures based on race, but the latest data showed that 6 953 people were killed in the country by December 2024.

Of these, 12 were killed in attacks on the farm. For 12 years, one was a farmer, usually white, and five were residents of farms, and four staff who most likely were black.

Meanwhile, thousands of civilians were killed by armed militias in recent years, and nearly 100,000 more displaced, according to the UN.

In 2016, Pacito escaped from DRC on foot, remembering “gunfire wherever I looked” at the time, and “without peace”. He said his wife’s family members were killed.

Among others, which perceive the United States as an increasingly unlikely place for relocation as refugees are the Hammada family, which is from Gaza but now lives in Egypt.

“After what happened to Trump, I think it will be impossible,” said Amjad Hamad.

In 2024, he and his family applied for the laot of the US green card, but found out that they had been denied.

He expressed confusion in Trump’s concern about the difficult position of white South Africans and above other groups.

“What do the Palestinians face when the inhabitants of South Africa face genocide?” he asked.

More than 53,000 people have been killed all over Gaza since October 7, 2023, when Israel launched a campaign for the destruction of Hamas, a Palestinian armed group that launched a cross -border attack on southern Israel, which killed about 1200 people and 251 were still being held hostage.

The embarrassment announced by Mr. Hamad, similar to the views of the Pacthus, whose hopes moved to the United States, were in January.

Since then, he has been effectively homeless in Nairobi, drifting from place to place where anyone will take him and his family for a few days.

“Sometimes we get food. Sometimes we don’t,” he said. “We fight very badly.”

Politics are changing on the US side, gives it little hope that it will be accepted by Trump, but the alternative to head back to Africa to his native country is impossible to imagine. “I can’t go back,” he said.