6,000 refugees entered the U.S. since October. All but 3 are South African.

A 41-year-old South African refugee in central Maine bought a car, started a better cleaning job, and enrolled her daughters in local public schools, including one joining a softball team. She had tried for years to leave South Africa for Canada or Europe without success, then learned the United States would accept Afrikaners as refugees. Since October, 6,069 people have been admitted as refugees, with all but three coming from South Africa. Refugee admissions were largely frozen under the Trump administration except for this specific group. Most new arrivals are White South Africans, many Afrikaners who speak Afrikaans and trace roots to early Dutch settlers, and they have settled across many states, with the largest numbers in California, Florida, Michigan, and Texas.

"Adri is one of 6,069 people who have been admitted to the United States as refugees since October, according to State Department figures. All but three were from South Africa. Her journey reflects the wholesale transformation of the refugee program under the Trump administration, which early last year froze refugee admissions save for one specific group - people like Adri. Now nearly all those arriving under the program are White South Africans, many of them Afrikaner, an ethnic minority who speak Afrikaans and trace their roots to early Dutch settlers."

"On arecent weekday afternoon, a 41-year-old single mother from South Africa who had arrived in the United States this spring as a refugee pulled into a coffee shop in central Maine. That day, she had bought a car, a 2014 Nissan, from fellow newly arrived South Africans. She was about to begina cleaning job that paid better than the one she initially had at Dunkin'. Her two daughters were settling into the local public schools; one had joined the softball team."

"Adri, who spoke on the condition that only her first name be used out of concern that she would be targeted for sharing her story, had tried to leave South Africa for years, exploring ways to immigrate to Canada or Europe, without success. Then she learned that the United States would accept Afrikaners like her as refugees. She saw it as her last chance to go. "I was walking in faith every day," said Adri, a tall woman with dark, spiky hair. "And God's not doing anything small.""

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