Democratic Senator Tim Kaine was criticized by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio for questioning whether culture or other factors were factors in the decision to grant 59 white South African Afrikaners refugee status. Rubio defended the president’s approval of 59 African migrants from South Africa in a cooked exchange at the Senate foreign relations committee period. Kane questioned the importance of Afrikaners while halting established refugee programs for various oppressed groups. This altercation occurred only before South African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s scheduled White House meeting with Donald Trump, making it Rubio’s most controversial conversation since his January assurance reading. Kaine, Clinton’s past vice-presidential running mate, said,” Right now, the US immigrant system allows a particular system for Afrikaner producers, the second class of whom arrived at Dulles aircraft in Virginia, while shutting off the refugee programme for everyone else. Do you believe Afrikan farmers are the most oppressed people in the world? Rubio defended the decision, claiming that the 49 people who had been admitted to being under strict conditions and facing cultural persecution in their home country. This contrasted with Trump’s expulsion of the standard refugee relocation program, which had affected 100, 000 people who had previously been approved. When Kaine brought up another tortured groups, including Rohingyas and Uyghurs, the discussion grew even more heated. Rubio cited quantity restrictions, citing the fact that there were a million oppressed people in the world who couldn’t all provide the US. Kaine criticized accusations of Afrikaner oppression as false, noting the presence of an African minister in the coalition government. Kaine questioned the justice of the requirements for religious persecution in the context of apartheid and the fact that there were historically no comparable programs for Black South Africans during the period. When it came to body color-based requirements, Rubio asserted that US rights to prioritize admissions based on regional interests. Kane asked,” So you have a unique common based on the skin color of someone.” Would that be suitable?” Rubio retorted as he was saying vehemently, “You’re the one who’s talking about the color of their skin, never me.”
