The president ordered that all foreign assistance to South Africa be halted and said his administration would prioritize the resettling of white “Afrikaner refugees” into the United States.

U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order to cut financial assistance to South Africa, the White House said on Friday, citing disapproval of the African nation's land policy and of its genocide case at the International Court of Justice against Washington's ally Israel.

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order formalizing his announcement earlier this week that he’ll freeze assistance to South Africa for a law aiming to address some of the wrongs of South Africa’s racist apartheid era.