American officials welcomed a group of 59 white South Africans at Washington Dulles International Airport on Monday afternoon, in a ceremony greeting them as refugees based on the argument that they are fleeing discrimination and racially based violence in their home country.

I’m glad that there are people still coming through,” Zomi leader Francis Kham says, but refugee resettlement “should be extended to everyone that’s really [facing] the same discrimination.”

The story so far: The first contingent of 59 Afrikaner refugees arrived from in the United States on May 12, under a new policy that promotes the resettlement of Afrikaners, a white minority group in South Africa, who President Donald Trump has alleged are facing racial discrimination in their home country.