Trump falsely claims Australia is “overwhelmed” by white South Africans who fled “genocide” | Australian immigration and asylum

Donald Trump mistakenly claims that Australia is “overwhelmed” with white South Africans fleeing farms, repeating an unfounded conspiracy theory that whites in South Africa are systematically murdered and expropriated.

The U.S. president held a chaotic meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in the Oval Office of the White House, during which he mistakenly claimed that the videotape of proved "genocide" was committed against whites in South Africa in what he called "opposite of Apartheid."

Trump has long insisted that the Afrikaans were a minority of mainly Dutch colonists who ruled South Africa during decades of racial segregation and he was persecuted. South Africa refuses to charge. The country has high rates of murder and violent crime, but the vast majority of victims are black.

But Trump told Ramaphosa that white farmers were fleeing to South Africa for the United States and Australia.

"You are occupying people's land and in many cases, these people are being executed," he said.

"They were executed. They happened to be white, most of them happened to be farmers.

"We have thousands of people who want to enter our country. They have smaller numbers."

Trump later said that a large number of white farmers in South Africa fled to Australia.

“You look at Australia – they’re overwhelmed, we’re overwhelmed by people who want to go out, their farms are worthless.”

The guardian asked questions to the Ministry of Interior in Osgtraria.

The former interior minister Peter Dutton - who lost his seat in this month's federal election as an opposition leader, proposed a special humanitarian intake of white South African farmers in 2018.

The plan will model 12,000 statuses of Syrian and Iraqi refugees displaced in the Syrian civil war and conflicts against Dash.

Dutton said in 2018 that white South African farmers "deserve special attention" and "need help from civilized countries like ours."

"I've asked the department to look at ways we can help. We can provide more visas to people in humanitarian programs."

The South African government said at the time that there was “no threat” and the Ministry of the Interior did not implement any specialized plans for white South Africans.

South Africa is not the top ten in Australia's country of origin. Conflict-affected countries including Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Myanmar occupy the list.

The Australian-South African-born population (not limited to humanitarian or refugee contestants) is the seventh largest immigrant community in Australia. It accounts for about 2.6% of Australia's overseas birth population and 0.8% of Australia's total population.

This year, the United States has begun relocating South Africans as refugees, and Trump says the South Africans are victims of “genocide.” Fifty Afrikaans arrived in the United States this month to accept Trump's "sanctuary" proposal. Despite the huge restrictions on immigration, he provided them with shelter, even though the United States stopped the arrival of asylum seekers.

U.S. senator says letting Afrikaans refugee status turn asylum system into global apartheid - Video

U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen accused the Trump administration of “broken” the country’s refugee process by granting asylum status to the Afrikaans while turning it into refugees from war-torn countries, including Sudan, into a “global apartheid” system.

On Wednesday, U.S. time, in the Oval Office, Ramaphosa opposes Trump's statement, acknowledging the high crime rate in South Africa but stressing that most of the victims are black.

As the meeting became more and more chaotic, Trump's tone became more and more, Ramaphosa firmly calmed down.

"Nelson Mandela taught us that whenever there is a problem, people need to sit down and talk about them," he said. "That's exactly what we want to talk about, too."