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Many in group from South Africa — including toddlers and other small children, even one walking barefoot in pajamas — hold small American flags as two officials welcome them in an airport hangar outside Washington DC.
A group of around 59 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.”
“Welcome to the land of the free,” Deputy Secretary of State Chris Landau said as he greeted the South Africans, several of whom were waving small American flags, at Dulles Airport in Virginia following their flight from Johannesburg.
“We’re sending a clear message that the United States really rejects the egregious persecution of people on the basis of race in South Africa,” Landau said.
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