The announcement comes shortly after 49 South Africans arrived in the U.S. for resettlement under a fast-tracked refugee program.

we are expected to resettle white Afrikaners from South Africa whom the U.S. government has classified as refugees.” The request, Rowe said, crossed a moral line for the Episcopal Church ...

The refugees were admitted to the U.S. after an executive order from President Trump, and under an expedited and unconventional process for the U.S. refugee resettlement program.