Trump’s South Africa squeeze is drawing fire at home
Donald Trump’s decision to strip South Africa of preferential trade access has already drawn a challenge from the US Congress. Richard Neal, the senior Democrat on the House committee responsible for trade, wants Washington to explain what Pretoria would have…
The domestic setback for Trump was real, the cost of living, the Iran war as concerns that moved American voters. The political risk in his South Africa policy, his administration offering refuge to Afrikaners it says face persecution, backing the case for Elon Musk’s Starlink to enter the South African market and withdrawing a trade…
Trump’s refugee policy is already in force. His September presidential determination set a worldwide ceiling of 17,500 refugee admissions for the 2027 fiscal year and directed that places go primarily to Afrikaners from South Africa. The preference has had a measurable effect. Of nearly 3,000 refugees admitted to the US in the preceding fiscal year…
