{"id":34820,"date":"2026-05-19T07:31:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T05:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=34820"},"modified":"2026-05-19T07:31:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T05:31:42","slug":"us-plans-major-increase-in-sa-refugee-admissions","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/us-plans-major-increase-in-sa-refugee-admissions\/","title":{"rendered":"US plans major increase in SA refugee admissions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The administration of President Donald Trump is reportedly moving ahead with plans to more than double the number of refugees accepted from South Africa (SA), according to several United States (US) media outlets citing a submission made by the State Department to Congress.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The reports follow an earlier<em> Reuters<\/em> article which first revealed the proposal before it was finalised.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to the reports, the US government wants to raise the refugee admissions cap from 7 500 to 17 500 before the end of the current fiscal year in September.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A notice published on the US Embassy in SA website states that the programme is open to Afrikaners and other minority groups. However, US media reports say the State Department described the matter as an \u201cemergency refugee situation\u201d, arguing that Afrikaners have faced increasing hostility in SA.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Reports indicate that more than 6 500 SA refugees, most of them white Afrikaners, have already been admitted into the US.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The State Department submission to Congress reportedly also referred to criticism by SA politicians and an immigration raid last December at a US refugee processing centre in Johannesburg.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;ChannelAfrica\/SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":34822,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-34820","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Administration of President Donald Trump is reportedly moving ahead with plans to more than double the number of refugees accepted from SA","published_date":"2026-05-19 07:20:51","news_description":"Administration of President Donald Trump is reportedly moving ahead with plans to more than double the number of refugees accepted from SA","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/34820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/34820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34821,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/34820\/revisions\/34821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=34820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}