2️⃣ A group of *around 50 white South Africans* have *arrived for resettlement* in the *United States* after President *Donald Trump granted them refugee status* as victims *of what he called a _"genocide."_* 🇺🇸 🇿🇦 *Trump essentially halted refugee arrivals* after taking office, but is *making an exception for the Afrikaners* despite *Pretoria's insistence that they do not face persecution* in their homeland. *_"Welcome to the land of the free,"_ Deputy Secretary of State Chris Landau said* on Monday as he greeted the group, *several of whom were waving American flags,* at *Dulles Airport in Virginia.* *Trump,* whose *tycoon ally Elon Musk* was born in South Africa, *said white farmers were being killed in the country* and *repeated an allegation of _"genocide"_* that has been *widely dismissed as absurd.* South African *President Cyril Ramaphosa rejected claims Afrikaners were being persecuted* and said he *recently told Trump what he is being told* about their situation *_"is not true."_*