Marco Rubio has responded to backlash over 59 white South Africans being given refugee status and resettled in the United States.
The Trump administration are being heavily criticised over the move with many asking why groups like Afghan or Sudanese citizens haven’t been given the same treatment despite human rights violations.
Donald Trump signed an executive order earlier this year to halt aid to South Africa, claiming a genocide was underway and that white farmers were being killed.
Rubio said: “We’ve often been lectured by people all over the place about how the United States needs to continue to be a beacon for those who are oppressed abroad. Well, here’s an example where we’re doing that.”
Pedro Pascal
It comes as Pedro Pascal gave a powerful and heart warming speech on immigration during a press conference at Cannes Film Festival while talking about his new film Eddington.
The film is a distinct commentary by director Ari Aster on American political and societal discourse during the Covid-19 pandemic, starring Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone, and Austin Butler.
Pascal said: “I’m an immigrant, my parents were refugees from Chile, I myself was a refugee, we fled a dictatorship, I was privileged enough to grow up in the US… if it weren’t for that I don’t know what would have happened to us.”
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