Trump prioritizes resettlement of white South Africans in the U.S. #shorts

President Trump on Friday signed an executive order to cut U.S. financial assistance to South Africa and prioritize the resettlement of white South Africans in the United States through the U.S. refugee program. The program, which Trump suspended on his first day in office, assists refugees with housing, job placement and other needs.

Trump alleged that white South Africans are now the target of oppression by the country's government, claiming a new South African law allows the racially motivated seizures of their land. South Africa's second biggest political party, the Democratic Alliance, launched a legal challenge Monday against the land measure. The South African land reform policy is a set of measures the national government has taken to return land that was originally taken from Black South Africans during Apartheid. Trump has also cited his disapproval of South Africa’s genocide case against U.S. ally, Israel, at the International Court of Justice.

Trump administration adviser and South African-born Elon Musk has previously criticized the South African government's policies as anti-white. South Africa’s foreign minister Naledi Pandor responded to Trump’s move saying that the order “lacks factual accuracy and fails to recognize South Africa's profound and painful history of colonialism and Apartheid."

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