An Omni Air International charter flight from South Africa to the United States lands at Washington Dulles International Airport in Dulles, VA, on May 12, 2025. The first group of refugees brought into the U.

The Trump administration is welcoming a small group of white South Africans as refugees, saying they face discrimination and violence at home

Yet the claim that minority white South Africans face discrimination from the Black majority has become an established trope in right-wing online chatrooms, and has been echoed by