Trump has frozen refugee admissions and cut off resettlement funding, but he has made an exception for white South Africans, who he says are victims of racial discrimination.

After suspending the US refugee program, President Trump is making an exception for white South Africans, known as Afrikaners

A group of 49 white Afrikaner South Africans granted refugee status by the Trump administration departed Johannesburg Sunday night on a U.S. government-funded charter flight bound for Dulles International Airport.