The Trump administration, under a new plan announced in February, has provided a private charter plane with a private charter plane to its home in the U.S. on Sunday.

South African Transportation Department spokesman Collen Mbisi said the organization, which includes families and children, was scheduled to arrive at Dulles International Airport outside Washington, D.C. on Monday morning.

They were the first Afrikaans - a white minority in South Africa - to be relocated after Donald Trump issued an executive order in February, accusing the black-led government of South Africa for racial discrimination against them and announcing a plan to relocate them to the United States.

The South African government said it was "completely wrong" that the persecution of the Dutch in South Africa was "completely wrong".

While suspending other refugee programs, the Trump administration stopped applications from Afghanistan, Iraq, most sub-Saharan Africa and other countries and challenged them in court.

Refugee groups question why white South Africans have priority over war and natural disasters. Review of refugee status in the United States usually takes years.

The Trump administration said the South African government is pursuing racist, anti-white policies through an affirmative action law and a new land acquisition law, with the goal of targeting Africa’s land. The government said the claims were based on misinformation and were not racist against the Dutch, and although the controversial laws have been passed, they were not requisitioned but not requisitioned, which was the focus of South African criticism.

Trump himself falsely claimed that South Africa's leaders "take the land and they confiscate the land."

As Financial Times columnist Simon Kuper pointed out last year, the most influential voices around Trump were “white people in their fifties who had a formative experience in segregating South Africa.”

"Elon Musk lived in apartheid in South Africa until he was 17. Secretly driving the power to acquire nuclear weapons," Cooper wrote.

South Africa also denies the U.S. claim that Afrikaans are targets of racially motivated attacks targeting certain rural communities. Instead, the South African government said that the Afrikaans (descendants of Dutch and French colonial settlers) were "one of the most economically privileged people in the country."

Mbissi said the first Afrikaan refugees were traveling on a flight run by Tulsa, Oklahoma. They set out from Johannesburg and when they checked in, they were accompanied by police and airport officials. Mbisi said they must be reviewed by police to ensure there are no criminal cases or pending arrest warrants before being allowed to leave.

The South African government said there was no reason to be relocated, but said it would not stop them and respect their freedom of choice.

They are expected to be greeted by a U.S. government delegation in Dulles, including the Under Secretary of State and Department of Health and Human Services officials, whose Refugee Office has organized their resettlement.

White House Vice President Stephen Miller told reporters Friday that the flight would be the first in a "massive relocation effort." Miller said what is happening to Afrikaans in South Africa “conforms to textbook definitions to define why refugee programs are created.”

"This is persecution based on protected characteristics - in this case it is race. It is persecution based on race," he said.

The HHS Refugee Resettlement Office is ready to support them, including housing, furniture and other household items, as well as costs such as groceries, clothing and diapers, according to the Associated Press documents. The document says the relocation of the Afrikaans is a "governmental statement priority".

About 2.7 million Afrikaans of South Africa's 62 million population, with more than 80% of black. They are just a part of the country’s white minority.

Many in South Africa are confused by the persecution of the Afrikaans and meeting the demands to relocate as refugees.

They are part of everyday multiracial life in South Africa, with many successful business leaders, some serving as cabinet ministers and deputy ministers. Their language is widely used and recognized as an official language, while churches and other institutions that reflect Afrikaans’ culture occupies an important position in almost every city and town.

The Trump administration criticized South Africa in several ways. Trump's February executive order cuts all U.S. funds to South Africa, which he said was anti-white and also accused it of anti-U.S. foreign policy. It cited South Africa’s links with Iran and proposed a case of genocide against our ally Israel in the war in Gaza as an example of a “positive position on the United States.”