Hours after he took office, Trump shut down the refugee resettlement program, effectively ending a pathway for refugees to secure asylum in the United States and choking off all funding for refugee resettlement.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has called a group of 59 white South Africans who have moved to the US to resettle "cowards", saying "they'll be back soon".The group of Akrikaners arrived in the US on Monday after President Donald Trump granted them refugee status,

The newly arrived people are from the ethnic minority of Afrikaners, the group of whites who ruled South Africa during apartheid.