White South African 'refugees' to arrive in US as soon as next week STORY: Donald Trump's administration is aiming to bring the first group of white South Africans to the United States via its refugee program as soon as next week, three people familiar with the matter have said.It's a divisive move - especially given that Trump has been blocking refugee admissions from the rest of the world.Two of the sources, who requested anonymity as they were sharing internal plans, said the aim is to fly the initial cohort of around 50 Afrikaners into Washington Dulles International Airport in Virginia."It was like an answered prayer."Life coach Katia Beeden is administrator of a website that seeks to help white South Africans take up Trump’s offer."We've been forgotten. It's very hard for us to travel. It's very hard for us to get visas. So, to suddenly hear that a country like the United States is offering us refugee status was a really big deal, and I was so excited. I felt so relieved. It just felt like a lifeline."In February, Trump issued an executive order that called for the U.S. to resettle Afrikaner refugees.It said Afrikaners, who are descendants of mostly Dutch early settlers, were "victims of unjust racial discrimination".The assertion that minority white South Africans face discrimination from the Black majority has spread in far-right circles for years and been echoed by Trump's white South African-born ally Elon Musk."I guess the key issue to highlight on it is none of this is actually true."Political analyst T.K. Pooe says the refugee scheme has created a false narrative that South Africa is a country "going through some civil war"."And then secondly, within the internal borders of South Africa it really has created a lot of division, it is almost as though President Trump has gone out of his way to sow internal division."Violence against white farmers and a law allowing for the expropriation and redistribution of land are often cited as evidence of anti-white discrimination in South Africa.However, out of 26,000 murders in South Africa last year, just 44 were linked to farming communities, according to police statistics. Crime researchers say the overwhelming majority of murder victims are Black.In addition, three quarters of private land in South Africa is white-owned, and not a single expropriation has taken place.South Africa's government has criticized Trump's program saying that it fails to recognize South Africa's history of colonialism and apartheid.It added that it's ironic that refugee status is being offered to people from the most economically-privileged part of South African society.The average white household owns 20 times the wealth of the average Black household, according to international academic journal, the Review of Political Economy.Official data shows unemployment rates are far higher among Black citizens."As long as it's not here, you can go anywhere you want."Trump's order also came after he'd suspended all U.S. refugee admissions, citing security and cost concerns. Thousands of Afghans, Congolese and others fleeing conflict were blocked, even after they had been vetted and cleared.