Trump to meet South African president amid clashes on trade, refugees

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : But experts on South Africa say Trump's claims of anti-White discrimination - much less genocide - are baseless. "Genocide has a very clear definition and what is happening in South Africa with White South Africans does not fit the definition at all," said Mandeep Tiwana, chief officer of evidence and engagement at CIVICUS, a human rights advocacy organization headquartered in South Africa.
48% : Theo de Jager, an Afrikaner who chairs the Southern African Agriculture Initiative, wrote in a letter to Trump that "the opportunity you have extended" to enter the U.S. as a refugee could be the "only viable path forward" for some Afrikaners.
35% : Some White Afrikaners have praised Trump for highlighting what they say is the discrimination they face.
33% : The Episcopal Church announced it would shutter its refugee resettlement program on May 12 after Trump asked it to help resettle the group of Afrikaners - even as the flow of refugees from all other countries had stopped.
31% : But an exception Trump ordered Feb. 7 was for "Afrikaners in South Africa who are victims of unjust racial discrimination" who he offered admission and resettlement in the United States as refugees.
30% : After suspending the U.S. refugee program, President Trump is making an exception for white South Africans, known as Afrikaners.
25% : After taking sides South Africa's long dispute over its racial divide, President Donald Trump may face tensions at the White House when he meets with the country's president Trump cut off U.S. aid to South Africa for what he called "egregious" accusations of genocide against Israel and for "fueling disproportionate violence against racially disfavored landowners" - a claim widely disputed by human rights activists and the South Africa's government.
21% : "White farmers are being brutally killed," Trump told reporters May 12 in the White House Roosevelt Room.
13% : Trump suspends refugee program for most other than Afrikaners Upon taking office, Trump immediately suspended the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program and ordered most potential refugees to remain in other countries.

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