Episcopal Church will not resettle white South Africans favored by Trump, presiding bishop says

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

46% : EMM had been one of 10 nongovernmental agencies, many of them associated with religious denominations, that facilitated refugee resettlement through the federal program created in 1980.
44% : The Afrikaners, about 50 of whom were scheduled to begin arriving in the United States as early as May 12, were screened and cleared for travel in the three months since Trump signed a Feb. 7 executive order accusing South Africa's Black-led government of racial discrimination against the white minority group.
38% : Millions of people worldwide are identified by the United Nations as refugees escaping war, famine or religious persecution in their home countries.
24% : When Trump took office, some refugees who had waited their turn to be resettled and received clearance to travel to the United States had their travel plans revoked after the president signed his executive order halting the resettlement program.
15% : Trump said the United States "lacks the ability to absorb large numbers of migrants, and in particular, refugees, into its communities" despite successful efforts by EMM and the other resettlement agencies to ramp up their resettlement operations during the Biden administration.

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