"White South Africans fail to win asylum in US"

Rory Carroll in Johannesburg
The Guardian

A white South African couple have failed to win asylum in the US after judges rejected their plea of persecution on the grounds that post-apartheid South Africa had left them jobless and fearful of crime.

Michael and Edith Gormley argued that if deported from the US they risked being mugged and marooned without work because of South Africa's crime wave and its affirmative action policy to boost black employment.

A federal appeals court in San Francisco dismissed the asylum application on Thursday, saying the couple had failed to prove they faced persecution.

"Substantial evidence supports the conclusion that the Gormleys suffered, at most, what may be perceived as reverse discrimination which resulted in some adverse economic consequences," said Judge Kim McLane Wardlaw, the Associated Press reported.
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