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[1/3]2025年5月12日，在美国弗吉尼亚州杜勒斯的杜勒斯国际机场，首批根据美国总统特朗普的难民计划被认定为种族歧视受害者并获得难民身份的南非白人，在办理中转航班登机手续。路透社/乔纳森… 购买授权，打开新标签页查看更多
- 摘要
- 美国官员讨论将现有的7500人难民配额上限再增加10000人
- 美国国务院发言人拒绝证实或否认相关讨论
- 邮件显示部分南非难民已从美国返回家园
华盛顿4月23日路透电——据三位知情人士透露，唐纳德·特朗普政府正在考虑将年度难民限额提高一倍以上，以接纳更多南非白人进入美国。
共和党人特朗普2025年1月就职时暂停了全球范围内的难民入境。数周后，他发布行政命令，优先安置欧洲裔南非荷裔白人，称他们在以黑人为主的南非面临基于种族的迫害。南非政府强烈否认这一说法。
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美国难民收容项目于1980年正式设立，当时数十万越南和柬埔寨难民逃离战乱。该项目此后扩展为全球受迫害人群提供避难所。特朗普几乎仅将该项目用于接纳南非白人，这是对人道主义保护规范的全面颠覆，打开新标签页。
据了解内部规划的人士透露，最近几周美国官员讨论将7500人的难民配额上限再增加10000人，以让更多南非荷裔白人获得难民身份。这些人士要求匿名，以便披露非公开的政府讨论内容。
白宫将相关问题交由美国国务院回应。国务院发言人未证实或否认有关扩大难民收容上限的讨论。
“如果总统决定提高2026财年的难民入境限额，他会在合适的时机宣布。目前讨论的任何数字都只是猜测，”该发言人表示。
在1994年首次民主选举结束的种族隔离时代，南非实行种族隔离制度，为被划分为黑人、有色人种、白人和亚裔的人群设立了隔离的学校、社区和公共设施。
根据2022年人口普查数据，黑人占南非总人口的81%。南非荷裔白人及其他白人占总人口的7%。
美国国务院数据显示，本财年前六个月美国已接纳约4500名南非难民，有望超过特朗普现行的项目限额。据国务院统计，本财年除南非白人外，仅有3名阿富汗难民获得入境资格。
特朗普将2026财年的难民限额定为7500人，创下历史新低，较前总统乔·拜登时期的每年125000人限额大幅下调。该财年于2025年10月1日启动。
另一位知情人士表示，特朗普政府还在讨论接纳其他国籍的难民。
美国官员正在权衡是否将伊朗和前苏联国家的宗教少数群体纳入所谓的“劳滕贝格计划”，该人士称。该计划源于1989年时任美国参议员弗兰克·劳滕贝格提出的预算修正案，旨在方便犹太难民在美国重新定居。
部分在美南非难民决定返国
尽管特朗普希望进一步增加南非难民的入境人数，但路透社查阅的一封美国政府内部邮件显示，至少已有四名已入境的难民返回了南非。
邮件显示，1月底抵达明尼阿波利斯的一名南非人在不到一个月后便离开了美国。案件记录显示，他的女儿和孙辈计划前来与他团聚，但“计划落空”，因此他返回了祖国。
邮件显示，另有两名南非人1月底通过难民项目抵达爱达荷州双子瀑布市，一周后便返程，称其父亲在南非病重。
邮件称，另一名3月中旬在伊利诺伊州莫林重新定居的南非人数周后返国。
“安置过程进展迅速，她并未彻底考虑清楚整个流程，而她在南非的家人决定不继续他们的安置申请，”案件记录写道。“此外，当事人现年66岁，其自理能力令人担忧。”
特朗普将南非描述为对白人而言危险且压迫的国家，但路透社3月的报道显示，近年来数千名旅居海外的南非白人已返回该国。
路透社2月报道的美国政府承包文件显示，美国计划每月通过难民项目处理4500名南非白人的申请。这些文件还显示，国务院出资比勒陀利亚的使馆园区内安装了十余个拖车舱用于面试。
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Exclusive: Trump poised to expand refugee program for white South Africans
2026-04-23T10:04:35.637Z / Reuters
By Ted Hesson
April 23, 2026 10:04 AM UTC Updated 56 mins ago
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[1/3]People from the first group of white South Africans granted refugee status for being deemed victims of racial discrimination under U.S. President Trump’s Refugee plan, check in for a connecting flight, at Dulles International Airport, in Dulles, Virginia, U.S., May 12, 2025. REUTERS/Jonathan… Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tabRead more
- US officials have discussed expanding the existing 7,500-person refugee cap by 10,000
- State Department spokesperson declines to confirm or deny discussions
- Some South African refugees have returned home from US, email shows
WASHINGTON, April 23 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s administration is considering more than doubling an annual refugee limit to bring more white South Africans into the U.S., according to three people familiar with the matter.
Trump, a Republican, paused refugee admissions from around the world when he took office in January 2025. Weeks later, he issued an executive order prioritizing the resettlement of European-descended Afrikaners, saying they faced race-based persecution in majority-Black South Africa. South Africa’s government vehemently denies the claims.
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The U.S. Refugee Admissions Program was formally established in 1980 after hundreds of thousands of people fled wars in Vietnam and Cambodia. The program expanded to provide safe haven to persecuted people around the globe. Trump has used it almost exclusively to bring white South Africans into the U.S., part of a broader upending of norms around humanitarian protection, opens new tab.
In recent weeks, U.S. officials have discussed expanding the 7,500-person refugee cap by 10,000 to allow more South Africans of Afrikaner ethnicity to obtain refugee status, said people familiar with internal planning, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to share non-public government discussions.
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The White House referred questions to the U.S. State Department. A State Department spokesperson did not confirm or deny the discussions around expanding the refugee admissions ceiling.
“If the president decides to raise the FY 2026 refugee admissions cap, he will do so at the appropriate time, and any numbers discussed at this point are only speculation,” the spokesperson said.
During the apartheid era, which ended with the first democratic elections in 1994, South Africa maintained a racially segregated society with separate schools, neighborhoods and public facilities for people classified as Black, colored, white or Asian.
Blacks make up 81% of South Africa’s population, according to 2022 census data. Afrikaners and other white South Africans constitute 7% of the population.
The U.S. admitted about 4,500 South Africans as refugees through the first six months of the fiscal year, State Department figures show, on pace to exceed Trump’s existing limits for the program. The only refugees other than white South Africans to enter this fiscal year were three Afghans, according to State Department statistics.
Trump set the record-low refugee ceiling of 7,500 for fiscal year 2026, which began October 1, 2025, down from a ceiling of 125,000 a year under former President Joe Biden.
The Trump administration is also discussing bringing in refugees of other nationalities, one of the people familiar with planning said.
U.S. officials are weighing whether religious minorities from Iran and countries that used to be part of the Soviet Union could be included under what’s known as the “Lautenberg” program, the person said. The program stems from a 1989 budget amendment introduced by then-U.S. Senator Frank Lautenberg that aimed to make it easier for Jewish refugees to resettle in the U.S.
SOME SOUTH AFRICANS IN THE US DECIDE TO GO BACK HOME
Even as Trump looks to further ramp up the entry of South Africans, an internal U.S. government email reviewed by Reuters showed that at least four refugees already in the U.S. have returned to South Africa.
One South African who arrived in Minneapolis in late January departed the U.S. less than a month later, the email showed. Case notes said that plans for his daughter and grandchildren to join him “fell through” so he returned to his home country.
A pair of South Africans who arrived in Twin Falls, Idaho, in late January via the refugee program turned around a week later, saying a parent was ill in South Africa, the email showed.
Another South African resettled in Moline, Illinois, in mid-March returned home weeks later, the email said.
“Resettlement occurred quickly, she had not thoroughly thought through the process, and her family in South Africa has decided not to continue their own resettlement process,” case notes said. “Additionally, the client’s age (66) and ability to provide for herself is a concern.”
Trump has portrayed South Africa as dangerous and oppressive for whites, yet thousands of white South Africans abroad have returned to the country in recent years, Reuters reported in March.
U.S. government contracting documents reported by Reuters in February said the U.S. aimed to process 4,500 white South Africans per month through the refugee program. The documents also said the State Department paid to install more than a dozen trailers on embassy property in Pretoria to conduct interviews.
Reporting by Ted Hesson; Additional reporting; Editing by Craig Timberg and David Gregorio
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