(12 May 2025)
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Dulles, Virginia – 12 May 2025
1. Cutaway of Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau walking into airport hanger to greet group of Afrikaners
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Christopher Landau, Deputy Secretary of State:
"Welcome, welcome to the United States of America. It is such an honor for us to receive you here today. This is the land of the free. And we know that all of you were faced."
3. Various cutaways of newly arrived South African Afrikaners
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Christopher Landau, Deputy Secretary of State:
"It is so happy. It makes me so happy to see you with our flag in your hands. And that flag symbolizes liberty. For so many of us, many of us, our families, have had a journey not that different from the journey that you are embarking on today. Any adjustment in life, any change takes some while. It takes a while to get used to. But I want you all to know that you are really welcome here and that we respect what you have had to deal with these last few years. We respect the long tradition of your people, and what you have accomplished over the years. And I am sure that you will be successful. As you know, a lot of you, I think our farmers right you when you have quality seeds, you can put them in in foreign soil and they will blossom. They will bloom. And we are excited to welcome you here, to our country where we think you will bloom and we will hopefully allow you to have fulfilling lives for your children. And then we will bloom and we will benefit alongside you. "
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5. SOUNDBITE (English) Christopher Landau, Deputy Secretary of State:
"Some of the criteria are making sure that refugees did not pose any challenge to our national security, and that they could be assimilated easily into our country. So the president on February 7th issued an executive order about the egregious conditions in South Africa. And all of these folks have just come in today, have been carefully vetted pursuant to our refugee,, standards. And whether or not the broader refugee programs for other people around the world will be lifted is still an ongoing consideration. But again, the president has recognized the dire situation, of this particular group of people."
6. Cutaway of group
STORYLINE:
The Trump administration on Monday welcomed a small group of white South Africans as refugees, saying they face discrimination and violence at home, which the country’s government strongly denies.
The decision to admit the 49 people also has raised questions from refugee advocates about why the group should be admitted when the Trump administration has suspended efforts to resettle people who are fleeing war and persecution and have gone through years of vetting before coming to the United States.
The group from South Africa, including children holding small American flags, arrived at Dulles International Airport outside Washington on a private charter plane and was greeted by Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau and Homeland Security Deputy Secretary Troy Edgar.
“I want you all to know that you are really welcome here and that we respect what you have had to deal with these last few years," Landau told the group in a hangar at the airport, many of them holding U.S. flags. "We respect the long tradition of your people and what you have accomplished over the years.”
That characterization is strongly denied by the South African government and has been disputed by experts in the country and even an Afrikaner group.
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