New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof loudly condemned President Donald Trump's decision to grant refugee status to white South Afrikaners in a recent CNN interview.
"He's completely turned refugee policy upside down in ways that reflect racial discrimination. I mean, it's not that the Afrikaner farmers are not suffering from that. It is true that some have been murdered, but Black farmers have been murdered at even higher rates," he told CNN host Anderson Cooper on his show Monday.
"It is true that there was legislation passed in January that theoretically creates an opportunity to confiscate some land without compensation. That has not been implemented. Nobody has had their land taken away, and these Afrikaners are among the most privileged people on the entire continent," he continued.
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Kristof said the world's worst humanitarian crisis right now is being witnessed in Sudan. "I've seen a man who had his eyes gouged out as a reflection of that genocide with a bayonet in Congo," he added.
"But none of those people have any right to be accepted to come to the U.S. as refugees, and instead we bring in, you know, a group of people who don't remotely qualify as refugees. But what distinguishes them is that they are white," he said.
"As a son of a refugee, I just find this makes a mockery of the entire principle of refugee status," Kristof told Cooper.
Earlier on the show, Cooper also criticized the president's decision, saying, "The only Africans President Trump has paved a path for are these South Africans. And yes, they are white."
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"They are Afrikaners, descendants of dutch settlers to South Africa. This is the first group of people granted refugee status to enter the U.S. since the president entered his second term," he added.
The CNN host further said the women and children who have been assaulted in the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a place that has seen fighting for decades, deserved to be given refugee status.
He added there has been major fighting between various groups, making it "the deadliest war of our lifetime" and the deadliest since World War II.
"Some 3 to 4 million people have died in this country, and their deaths have virtually gone unnoticed, and there's a whole new round of fighting that's been going on in eastern Congo between the government and an armed group called M23," he said.
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"Thousands have died, hundreds of thousands displaced and widespread reports of sexual violence against women. But president Trump hasn't allowed refugees from there, here, nor from Sudan, where there's been terrible fighting," Cooper said.
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