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In his executive order last month that stopped aid to South Africa, Trump alleged there was discrimination against the white Afrikaner minority, descendants of Dutch and French settlers.

Many of those refugees ended up in Gaza, where they and their descendants make up three-quarters of the population.

One descendant of our last common ancestor went on to engulf a photosynthetic bacterium, which would then toil away harnessing the power of the sun to fuel this progenitor of all plants.

They point to a long history of police abuses and discriminatory laws that have targeted Chinese, Japanese and Mexican immigrants and their descendants.

But the term can also refer to the mass deportation of migrants and their descendants.