White Afrikaner from South Africa expecting preferential refugee treatment from Trump ended up in handcuffs
Trump promised that white Afrikaners would receive preferential refugee status because he claimed they were victims of government discrimination after apartheid ended.
Benjamin Schoonwinkel believed him, and in September, he flew to Atlanta and told federal border agents he was seeking asylum, The New York Times reported Friday. But he didn't come through the refugee program, as the administration wanted. Instead, he came to the country on a tourist visa.
And the decision landed him in handcuffs, and later to a federal detention center in Georgia with about 2,000 other migrants rounded up in Trump's immigration crackdown.
“I never expected this to happen,” Schoonwinkel said in a video interview from the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin. “I expected a little bit of red tape.”
https://www.rawstory.com/afrikaners-2674831205/
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