Almost all refugees admitted to the US over the past six months have been white South Africans fleeing what Donald Trump has labelled a "genocide", according to US Government figures.
Data published by the Trump administration showed the US took in 4,499 refugees since October.
All but three - who were from Afghanistan - were South African nationals.
In comparison, the Biden administration accepted more than 125,000 people from 85 countries across the world in his last full year in office.
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Last year, President Donald Trump announced a major overhaul to the US asylum system in a bid to bolster public safety and national security.
Under the sweeping reforms, all refugee admissions were ground to a halt, but members of South Africa's Afrikaner community were allowed to apply for resettlement.
The announcement described the white minority group as "victims of illegal or unjust discrimination" in their homeland.
The treatment of Afrikaners has been a sharp point of dispute between the Trump administration and the South African Government.
Almost all refugees admitted to the US over the past six months have been white South Africans
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In March 2025, the US expelled South Africa's ambassador Ebrahim Rasool after he claimed Mr Trump was attempting to "project white victimhood as a dog whistle".
Two months later, the President had a tense standoff with his South African counterpart, Cyril Ramaphosa, in the Oval Office, where the American leader said white farmers were undergoing a “genocide”.
Mr Trump played a video during the meeting showing South African opposition figure Julius Malema singing: "Shoot the Boer, Shoot the farmer", alongside images of a row of crosses - a burial site for white farmers.
Mr Ramaphosa pushed back, saying: "What you saw - the speeches that were made... that is not Government policy."
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The President had a standoff with his South African counterpart in the Oval Office
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The President responded: "But you do allow them to take land, and then when they take the land, they kill the white farmer, and when they kill the white farmer nothing happens to them."
The South African leader later lambasted Mr Trump as "truly uninformed", calling the decision to play the videos as an "ambush" and a "spectacle".
Mr Ramaphosa later claimed to the New York Times: “There’s no white genocide and there is no grabbing of land, of white people’s land.
"And white farmers are not being driven out of the country and badly treated.”
The first group of South African refugees arrived in the US in May last year
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He also described the American Government's asylum policy towards Afrikaners as "racist".
The first group of South African refugees arrived in the US in May last year - just weeks before the explosive meeting in the Oval Office.
Although the Afrikaners have been resettled across the country, Texas has seen the highest concentration, with 543 moving to the Lone Star state.
More than 500,000 white South Africans are estimated to have left the country since 2001, according to Stats SA.
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