US senator says giving Afrikaners refugee status turns asylum system into global apartheid

US senator Chris Van Hollen has accused the Trump administration of 'making a mockery' of the US refugee process, turning it into a system of 'global apartheid' by granting asylum status to white Afrikaners while turning away refugees from war-torn countries, including Sudan. The first group of white Afrikaners arrived in the US last week The white Afrikaners lining up to accept Trump’s offer of asylum