President Donald Trump has prioritized resettling South African refugees since taking office again in January 2025. Known as Afrikaners, these refugees are descendants of Dutch and French Huguenots who immigrated to the southernmost tip of Africa.

Afrikaners are facing racial discrimination and persecution in their own country. Because they are white, their black neighbors and the government have decided to take their land, torture their children, and even murder them. One might call it a second apartheid — only this time, the discrimination is reversed and genocidal.

Trump has allowed some 17,500 Afrikaners to come to the U.S. annually under refugee status. These refugees have promised to become self-sufficient and not become a burden on the U.S. welfare system. However, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) tasked with helping facilitate immigration, assimilation, and refugee care have made it their mission to derail this policy as much as they can.

Organizations like Church World Service (CWS), which is a left-leaning NGO, have decided to fight Trump in court. CWS’s biggest problem with Afrikaner refugees is that funding is available for their resettlement, while other refugee funding is being put on hold. CWS believes that this preferential treatment for Afrikaners is racial discrimination; ergo, it is willing to cancel tickets and leave them to die at the hands of those who hate them in their own country.

For Afrikaners, though, the roadblock doesn’t stop there. Once they arrive in the U.S., the NGOs whose job is to help refugees assimilate don’t know what to do with these English-speaking, educated white refugees. According to The Daily Wire, these NGOs are ignoring the Afrikaners at best and openly hostile at worst.

One refugee mother revealed that a Chicago-based NGO that was supposed to be supporting her family was not even doing the bare minimum. “They didn’t bring us anything, no food, no basic necessities, nothing,” she recounted. “They just honestly didn’t care. … They hated us. They literally asked us why are we here because there are refugees in Kenya that have been waiting for 35 years to come to the U.S., so what makes us so special.”

The refugees in Kenya are from Somalia, South Sudan, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Somalis are the largest refugee group in Kenya. The U.S. has imported cities’ worth of Somali refugees, and, unfortunately, a sizable number of them have decided to defraud the U.S. welfare system and cheat American taxpayers. Also, at least the refugees in Kenya already have housing and shelter. For Afrikaners, that is not the case. No African countries will take them in.

The NGO Maine Immigrant and Refugee Services (MEIRS) wouldn’t help Afrikaners find jobs or secure Social Security cards and driver’s licenses. Another NGO, Jewish Family Services (JFS), actively placed a refugee family in a dangerous neighborhood where they were victims of break-ins twice in the span of just days.

These NGOs should have the easiest job ever. Afrikaners can read and speak English, are educated, and are willing and able to assimilate and work. However, because they are white, they somehow deserve poor treatment and should be made to suffer.

This is essentially DEI immigration. When refugee status becomes only about skin color and not about need, the non-governmental organizations that participate in the resettlement process should take a step back and reassess why they do what they do.