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A charter plane financed in the USA with dozens of white South Africans who claim to be the victim of discrimination in her home country left Johannesburg on Sunday to the USA, where the Trump government welcomes her as refugees.

The departure of the white South Africans, whose jobs were refused to work and were attacked by violence due to their breed, was a remarkable development in the redefinition of US foreign policy by President Trump.

Mr. Trump has practically stopped all refugee shots for people who flee from famine and war from places such as Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo. But he has created an accelerated path into the country for Africans, a white ethnic minority that created and led the brutal apartheid regime in South Africa.

The refugee process often takes years. But only three months from that time at which Mr. Trump signed an executive order for refugee status for Africans for the first cohort.

Families who check in or the Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg for the flight on Sunday evening caught up with the reporters and said that the US message had instructed them not to speak to the news media. The parents with children in tow pushed the trolleys up with luggage and spoke softly among themselves.

One of the travelers smiled briefly when he was asked whether he would miss Rugby, a favorite sport of Africans, and Biltong, a popular beef, jerky snack. But the police occasionally reported journalists and said they didn’t want them to antagonize the Africans.

A total of 49 Africans took the flight, said a spokesman for the airport authority in South Africa.

While the administrative officers are planning to celebrate the Africans in Washington on Monday morning, auxiliary groups, activists for immigrant rights and the South African government and the public have criticized the refugee initiative and explains that it is a mockery of a system to help them most vulnerable.

Even some leading African activists in South Africa said they would prefer if Mr. Trump supports you to build a better life at home.

The African refugee program seems to have deepened the tensions in an already tense relationship between South Africa and the United States.

While Mr. Trump equated the South African government, racist inequalities, which were created by apartheid to discriminate against anti-white discrimination, granted South African civil servants as a politically motivated attempt to discredit the country. The Trump government has criticized the South African government for the fact that it had a close relationship with Iran and because of its strong attitude against Israel, including the introduction of a genocide proceedings at the International Court of Justice about the war in Gaza.

But for many Africans, the descendants of European colonizers who arrived in the country four centuries ago, this moment goes beyond politics.

“No white person with her mind would stay in this country,” said Jaco van der Merwe, 52, an African living in Johannesburg and added that he and his wife had become victims of violent attacks and passed for jobs because they are white. “I think South Africa is ready.”

Mr. van der Merwe said he had contacted the US message in South Africa to ask about the application for refugee status, but had not yet received an answer.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced in March that it received inquiries from more than 8,000 people. It is unclear when the government will admit more.

Much of dissatisfaction among the Africans focuses on their experiences in rural communities and tensions about land ownership, which have remained unsolved since the end of apartheid more than 30 years ago.

Many Africans form to make a living. During the apartheid, the government refused to have black South Africans the right to own agricultural land. This meant that almost all large -scale commercial farmers in the country were white, and that remains until today.

Although white South Africans only make up 7 percent of the population, they have arable land that covers about half of the country. This is an indication of a broader wealth gap in which white South Africans enjoy much higher employment rates, lower poverty rates and lucrative wages than their black colleagues.

The government’s efforts to redistribute land after apartheid have largely fallen flat due to a variety of factors, including corruption, lack of financial support for black farmers and the inability to get enough white South Africans to sell their country voluntarily.

This year, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa signed a measure that gives the government the opportunity to take private property without paying compensation. Although legal experts say that uncompensating seizures are subject to strict judicial review and are probably rare, the leaders of the African community have expressed fears that white farmers have taken their land.

Although there were no seizures, Trump said in February on social media in February that the South African government confiscated Land.

Zimasa Matiwane contributed the reporting from Johannesburg and stated Zolan Kanno-Young And Hamed Aleaziz From Washington.