Africaner defends the status of a refugee in us

Last week, 46-year-old Charle Kleinhouse lived on his family farm in MPumalanga, South Africa. With his picturesque beauty, wild nature and deep canyons, he is known as “the place where the sun rises.”

His new home – so far – is a budget hotel near the American highway.

He and dozens of other white South Africans have been moved to the United States under the controversial policy of President Donald Trump to protect them from the discrimination he claims to be upright – an accusation that South Africa rejects.

Kleinhaus defends the US president, telling the BBC that he has left his homeland after receiving threats of death in WhatsApp reports.

“I had to leave a five-bedroom house, which I would now lose,” Mr Kleinhaus told the BBC, adding that he also left behind his car, his dogs and even his mother. “I didn’t come here for fun,” he adds.

The contrast in homes could not be worse. But for the Kleinhaus, his situation in Buffalo, New York, is already better. “My children are safe,” says G -K Kleinhaus, whose wife died in a road accident in 2006.

The status of white South African farmers has long been a rally on the right and the far right of American politics.

Trump and his close ally, the billionaire, born in South Africa Elon Musk, even claim that there was a “genocide” of white farmers in South Africa – a statement that is widely discredited.

In February, Trump signed an enforcement order providing Africani’s refugee status, such as Kleinhaus, which he believed were persecuted.

Mr Kleinhaus is one of a group of 59 who arrived on Tuesday at Dulles Airport, near Washington, after the Trump administration quickly followed their applications.

He admits that he was surprised how quickly he had reached the US and that he was grateful to Trump. “I felt that at last someone in this world could see what was happening,” he says.

While he and his family arrived with others at the airport, they were greeted with red, white and blue balloons. He describes pompousness and ceremony as “predominant”.

Africa are a white ethnic minority that rules South Africa during the Apartheid era, applying racist segregation policies in the country until the regime is officially abolished in 1994.

But more than 30 years on, black farmers have only a small part of the best agricultural land in the country, with the majority still in white hands.

This led to anger over the slow pace of change. Kleinhaus admits that the Black South Africans have been injured as well.

But he says, “I had nothing to do with apartheid. Nothing, nothing, nothing.”

In January, South Africa President Cyril Ramafosa signed a controversial law allowing the government to seize private land without compensation – in certain circumstances, when considered “fair and in the public interest”.

The South African government says that land has not yet been seized. But G -N -Kleinhouse says that since he has a government claim on your land – as he says it is the case with it, it becomes impossible to function.

“Your land becomes useless – the alienation of the earth has gone too far,” he says. “People are afraid of this. Other Africans who criticize us live in a balloon.”

Some Africani colleagues have described G -N -Kleinhaus and the group as opportunists and being a victim of crime is not equivalent to the type of persecution that deserves refugee status.

Kleinhaus admits that the degree of murder of farmers is low in South Africa, but says he does not want to be a victim. “There are people in my area who were shot and killed,” he says.

He says he has received threats from members of the local community: “I regularly receive messages about WhatsApp, saying,” We will get rid of you, you are on my land. “

G -n Kleinhaus says he has received a message before he leaves for the United States, which reads: “We are coming for you, better be awake.”

He also says that his agricultural machines were damaged and that the local police did not act on his reports.

Ramafosa called the group traveling to the US “cowards”, stating that they did not want to deal with the inequalities of the Apartheid era.

“Like South Africans, we are sustainable,” he said earlier this week. “We are not running away from our problems. We must stay here and solve our problems.”

What is doing the displacement of Africanists to the United States, especially controversial, is that other refugees were banned, including Afghans, who removed their temporary protective status earlier this week.

The Ministry of Interior Security (DHS) said this move was justified, as the security and economic situation in Afghanistan have improved – despite the criticism of opposition MPs and rights.

G -n Kleinhaus says he is nice: “I want to say, I’m sorry for the Afghans, that they can’t get here. But I know there is a process. And I know when and if you are approved for the process, they take care of you.”

Is it worried that it is used as a political pawn by Trump? And that another president could potentially turn this decision in four years?

G -n Kleinhaus pauses and says, “Yes, it’s scary, but I’m a religious person. Just to be in this first group is God’s act, I believe because there was a 0.0 thing for a chance that you were chosen for the first call.”

Kleinhaus has been subjected to control of anti -Semitic posts on social media, which have since been deleted.

Discussing one of them, he says that he has copied and stuck one’s thoughts and that he has applied morphine as part of medical treatment at that time – although he admits that this is not an excuse.

The post of 2023 was made at a time of anger, he adds after seeing a video – which was not checked by the BBC – which is supposed to be spitting on Christians in Israel.

G -n Kleinhaus insists that the comments were specific for one moment, not a broad comment on Jewish people. “Even now, if I see a person against my religion, I will talk against her,” he said.

The US government is facing questions about the display check process. The UN Refugee Agency told the BBC that it did not participate in the screening process for African, as it would usually be for refugees targeted at the United States.

The Ministry of Interior Security (DHS) has earned it earlier that it is a screening of social media activities for anti -Semitism immigrants and used it as a reason for the rejection of candidates.

The Trump administration indicates allegations of anti -Semitism, as its employees have arrested and tried to deport propalist activists in recent months.

In a statement to the BBC, a senior DHS employee said: “The Ministry of Homeland Security Veterinarians of all refugee candidates. All claims for misconduct are in detail investigated and appropriate actions will be taken. DHS does not comment on an individual application.”

Upon his return to service, Trump began repression to reduce immigration wider. So, is it concerned about Kleinhaus from some turn of his group, which is offered entry into the United States?

“People don’t have to think we just take advantage of it,” he says. “We come here to contribute to the country.

“I do not worry that it will fall apart because I believe it is God’s plan for me.

“My life is in his hands. And if he didn’t want to come, I wouldn’t be here.”