Win McNamee / Getty Images A white Afrikaner thought he could seek asylum in the U.S. after President Donald Trump offered them refugee status—but instead was detained upon arrival. Benjamin Schoonwinkel, a 59-year-old white Afrikaner, flew from Johannesburg to Atlanta in September after Trump openly embraced white South Africans he said were facing violence and offered them refugee status. But when Schoonwinkel landed in the U.S. on a tourist visa and told American border agents that he was seeking asylum, he was detained and later thrown into a federal detention facility in rural Georgia, where the Trump administration is holding immigrants who were swept up in its crackdown, according to The New York Times . Read more at The Daily Beast.