For years against immigrants coming to the US, Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday, claiming that he is a US refugee who suffers from what he calls “government-sponsored race-based discrimination.” Resettlement was given priority.
Trump has also shut down all federal funds in the country, many of which are being used to combat AIDS.
Africans benefited primarily as white people in the historically racialized system of South Africa's apartheid apartheid system, but will resettle in the United States through the US refugee program.
Trump had suspended his resettlement program by executive order on his first day in office.
Trump denounced the South African government for orders discriminating against the white Africanners, descendants of predominantly Dutch settlers, who arrived in the 1600s.
Applying old British colonial laws and adding more institutionalized and racist laws, the African-led all-white government imposed apartheid on the country in 1948.
A system of “separate development” led white people to dominate the economy, including agriculture, until the 1990s.
Trump has enacted “number of government policies designed to seize the agricultural property of ethnic Africans without compensation and to dismantle equal opportunities for employment, education and business.” I was furious when I ordered him to be there.
He wrote that the United States cannot support the South African government's “Committee of Rights in the Country.”
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The South African government has denied confiscation of private property or racially motivated discrimination. Officials said the government is looking at unused or publicly owned land to provide the help of citizens suffering from apartheid generations.
The Washington Post reports that private property is “rarely confiscated,” and aims to address the disparities created by apartheid.
White people, who make up just 8% of the population, own 72% of the country's farmland, but according to a 2017 land audit, black people, who make up 80% of the population, own only 4% of the farmland.
In a post on Monday in X, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa responded to Trump's previous attack on the country, saying the land measures were “constitutionally mandated legal proceedings, not confiscation measures.” did.
He later swore in his national speech: “We will not be bullied.”
Trump told Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Homeland Security Christie Noem that “humanity including admission and resettlement through the US refugee admissions program for Africans in South Africa, victims of fraudulent racism.” “Treasury relief will be given priority.”
Trump's right-wing “best buddy” Elon Musk grew up in South Africa's apartheid and continued his student visa after moving to the US for school. Musk has long criticised his hometown as “anti-white.”
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A federal judge said Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) would access the Treasury payment system, citing potential “irreparable harm” from leaks in sensitive financial data. I temporarily blocked it.
The lawsuit follows other court decisions to suspend Trump administration plans, including staff purging at USAID and buying up federal workers.
President Trump said Doge, led by “special government employee” Elon Musk, will next target military and education spending.
The 19 Democratic attorney generals sued to prevent access to Doge's financial records, including personal data such as Social Security and bank account numbers.
This legal challenge raises concerns about Doge's data security and potential misuse of potential information, but supporters praise their efforts to curb government spending.
The new order was one flip-flop that Trump signed on his first day, where he argued that it was tensions towards the country where the refugees received them. Trump said he would only reopen the refugee program if he concluded that doing so would serve the interests of the US.
But Trump's previous orders allowed authorities to provide case-by-case waiver.
The US provided roughly $440 million in aid to South Africa in 2023, with most funding supporting 17% of South Africa's HIV/AIDS responses and providing life-saving drugs to millions He was assigned to HIV/AIDS treatment through the program Pepfar.
