A group of white South Africans arrived in the United States after being granted refugee status by the Donald Trump administration, which has sparked controversy in South Africa, declaring victims of racial discrimination by the Dutch.

U.S. Secretary of State Christopher Landau and Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Troy Edgar met at Dulles International Airport outside Washington, DC. Afrikaners, a minority mainly Dutch colonists, met ethnic minorities at Dulles International Airport.

Reuters reported that the group listed 59 adults and children, citing State Department officials, while the Associated Press said there were 49.

Landau told the convening white South Africans at Dulles Airport: “It’s a great honor for us to host you here today…it makes me happy to see your flag in your hands.

He quoted his family’s history and said: “My own father was born in Europe and had to leave his country when Hitler came in…we respect what you had to deal with in the past few years.”

He added: “We will send a clear message that the United States does reject serious persecution of people on a racial basis in South Africa.”

The same day the group arrived in the United States, the Trump administration also ended legal protections that temporarily protected Afghans from deportation, citing improved security situations in the country, which were ruled by the Taliban.

Landau told reporters at the airport that the consideration for resettlement of Afrikaans was “they are easily absorbed into our country.”

Trump suspended U.S. refugee settlement plans in January, with more than 100,000 people remaining approved stranded refugee resettlement. Then, in February, he signed an executive order directing officials to grant refugee status to the Afrikaans, whose leaders ruled the segregation during the segregation while violently suppressing the black majority.

"It's a genocide that happened," Trump told White House reporters, when asked why white South Africans were relocated among victims of famine and war in other parts of the continent, echoing his South African billionaire adviser Elon Musk.

Trump added that the race of the Afrikaans “has no effect on me.” He said South Africa's leaders will meet him next week, but he will not attend the G20 leaders' meeting in Johannesburg in November unless "care for the good situation".

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said at a meeting on the Ivory Coast that he had told Trump by phone that he had received false information about discrimination against South Africans, from those who disagree with the government's efforts to correct racial inequality that continued for thirty years after the end of white minority rule.

"We think the U.S. government has had the wrong ending here, but we will continue to talk to them," he said.

According to an article in the Political Economy Review, white people in South Africa are usually 20 times richer than blacks. The unemployment rate for blacks in South Africa is 46.1%, while that for whites is 9.2%.

Laura Thompson Osuri is the family executive director of the Washington-area refugee care nonprofit, Laura Thompson Osuri, standing in the airport check-in area, reading the sign: "Refugee. Noun. A person who was forced to leave his or her country for persecution, war or violence.

"It's about showing: 'Look at us. We'll welcome them as long as people look like us.'" Oserry said of Trump's policy.

Democrats also condemned the placement of the Afrikaans. "To watch the Trump administration adopt what I call global apartheid ... is just an insult to the whole idea of ​​our country," Sen. Chris Van Hollen, of Maryland, said at a smart event.

Meanwhile, the Bishop Church said it would end decades of cooperation with the U.S. government in support of refugees after being asked to help resettle South Africans, citing its “commitment to racial justice and reconciliation.”