Senator in US Senate grills Marco Rubio on Afrikaners in the United States

• United States Senator Tim Kaine condemned the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, for admiging Afrikaners into the country while rejecting other refugees
• Kaine and Rubio got into a heated debate in the Senate on 20 May 2025 where Rubio faced questions, including the question of admitting Afrikaners
• Ribio defended the government's decicion to admit Afrikaners and said the Afrkaners believed that they were persecuted

Tebogo Mokwena, affiliated with Briefly News, covered local and international relations, political analysis, and interviews in South Africa for Daily Sun and Vutivi Business News during his 10 years of experience.

WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES — United States Senator Tim Kaine slammed Secretary of State Marco Rubio on 20 May 2025 for allowing Afrikaners to be admitted as refugees in the country and rejecting other refugees from other countries' refugee applications.

Marco Rubio vs Senator Tim Kaine

Battation 54 posted a video of the heated exchange between the two on his @54Battalion X account. Rubio appeared before the Senate Appropriations Committee Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs. In the video, Kaine asked why the Trump administration considered Afrikaners more important than the Rohingyas and Uyghurs who face persecution in Myanmar and China respectively.

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Kaine also pointed out that the South African government is a Government of National Unity with white political parties like the Democtatic Alliance (DA) and the Freedom Front Plus. He also said John Steenhuisen, an Afrikaner, is the Minister of Agriculture. He also sais the Afrikaner regime did not give black South Africans special programmes toenter as refugees during the Apartheid regime.

Rubio defends himself

Rubio defended the Trump administration and said that the country's foreign policy did not require even-hanedness in admitting refugees. This was after Kaine asked if Christian redugees should be allowed entryinto the country at the exclusion of Muslim refugees. Rubio said that the Americangovernme can admit whomever it wants, and it will prioritise people entering the US bsded on the interests of the country .

Watch the X video here:

What you need to know about Afrikaners in the US

• Steenhuisen said that the Afrikaners who left the country made a mistake and that South Africa is on the cusp of great things
• The neighbour of one of the Afrikaners in the United States accused him of being an opportunist for using the refugee offer to live in the United States
• A United States podcaster went viral after he reacted to the claims that Charl Kleinhaus has a history of being anti-Semitic
• An American taxpayer crashed out on TikTok and shared his concerns about the Afrikaners after they landed in the country
• Another Afrikaner was accused of using the refugee program to reunite with her husband who has been ion the united states for three years

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Afrikaner encourages others to join him in the United States

In a related article, Briefly News reported that an Afrikaner living in the United States encouraged other Afrikaners to relocate to the United States. The man, who owns a farm, shared how he adjusted to the American life.

Thr man said that he started working for $15 per hour on a Frm in Texas. After a few months of working, he got a loan from the United States and bought a 150-acre farm. His message caused a stir on social media.

Source: Briefly News