The White House is welcoming 59 white South African refugees even as it’s attempted to suspend refugee admissions from numerous other countries.

Applications for the South African refugees — who arrived at Dulles International Airport near Washington on Monday — were reportedly fast-tracked, while the administration has gone out of its way to stymie similar requests from places like Iraq, Afghanistan and Sudan.

White South Africans were able to qualify for refugee status as part of a new program tailored to those seeking to flee alleged race-based discrimination. According to The Washington Post, a State Department memo said most of the incoming refugees “have witnessed or experienced extreme violence with a racial nexus.”

Trump echoed similar circumstances — which the South African government has vehemently contested the existence of — in a Monday press briefing. They’re “being killed” and there’s a “genocide that’s taking place,” he claimed, alluding to allegations that white farmers have been targeted for their land.

That’s similar to broadsides he made via an executive order that cut off aid to South Africa on the grounds that the majority-Black government allegedly discriminated against white residents. Trump has taken issue, too, with the South African government’s support for Palestinians amid the Israel-Hamas conflict. And he’s ramped up such critiques as senior members of his orbit, like Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who is an immigrant from South Africa, have gone after the country’s policies.

The White House’s advocacy for the white South African refugees — many of whom are descended from Dutch colonists in the region — directly contradicts how the administration has treated refugees and immigrants more broadly.

In January, the White House tried to pause refugee admissions indefinitely, though that effort has since been contested in the courts.