During a State Department press briefing on Tuesday, Principal Deputy spokesperson Tommy Pigott was asked about the arrival of Afrikaner refugees from South Africa.
00:00Thank you, Tommy. A question about the new arrivals from South Africa that landed in Dulles yesterday.
00:05The UN's International Organization for Migration has told ABC that they were not involved in administering any loans.
00:12Typically, they would be the ones to run loans funded by the State Department to pay for refugees to come to the United States to cover those travel costs.
00:21I'm wondering, can you speak to how that travel was funded or say anything more about whether the State Department is giving out any loans in this case?
00:28Well, I'm not going to talk about specific relationships we have with organizations.
00:31I'm also not going to talk about operational details in terms of how we're implementing the priorities laid out by the President and Secretary Rubio.
00:38The main bottom line, though, is that we are implementing those priorities.
00:42We are seeing the President's executive orders being delivered upon here at the State Department, and this is an example of that, of course, collaborating across different agencies.
00:50So we're going to continue seeing those priorities fulfilled, but I'm not going to comment here on internal operational details or specifics of that nature.
