A plane carrying dozens of South Africans arrived at Dulles International Airport on Monday, a State Department official said.

The organization, including families with children, was welcomed at the DC Regional Airport at U.S. official Christopher Landau and Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Troy Edgar. Landao told reporters that the group faces "serious discrimination" in South Africa, and the government denied the issue.

Landau said newcomers had a “careful review” in South Africa before they arrived. them Leaving the capital of the country Johannesburg is renting a plane at its station on Sunday.

Earlier this year, President Trump Guiding his government To allow South Africans of European descent, especially those largely descended from Dutch settlers - relocated through the American refugee program.

The government and its allies, including South African-born billionaire Elon Musk, said members of the white South African minority face discrimination from the country’s apartheid government, including through controversial laws that allow the government to occupy private land in some cases.

The South African government strongly denies any discrimination and believes that the land seizure law respects private property rights and only targets land that does not use or serves the public interest. Land ownership has long been a sensitive issue in South Africa, until the mid-1990s, when it was ruled by white minorities under apartheid.

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