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Memorandum from James T. Lynn, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, to President Gerald R. Ford concerning a status report on the Indochina Refugee Resettlement Program.

Collection GRF-0056: White House Central Files Subject Files (Ford Administration)Series: White House Central Files Subject Files on National Security and DefenseFile Unit: ND 18-2/CO 1: Refugees/Indochina

Resettlement

Artist William J. Houliston, Jr. (American, 1908–1979)

Date c. 1937

Medium: Oil on canvas

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US President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday aimed at freezing assistance to South Africa over a controversial law that allows the government to seize farmland from ethnic minorities — namely White farmers — without compensation, as well as the country’s stance against Israel and its war in Gaza.

Trump said in the order the United States would no longer support South Africa with foreign aid if such policies, which he claims highlight a “shocking disregard for its citizens” and amount to “human rights violations,” continue, ordering US agencies to stop providing any aid to South Africa unless deemed necessary.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has previously denied that South African authorities were “confiscating land” and said his country was looking forward to working with the Trump administration “over our land reform policy.”

Kim Reynolds of Iowa

Doug Ducey of Arizona

Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma

Bill Lee of Tennessee

Doug Burgum of North Dakota

Kristi Noem of South Dakota

Chris Sununu of New Hampshire

Gary Herbert of Utah

Pete Ricketts of Nebraska

Jim Justice of West Virginia

Eric Holcomb of Indiana

Phil Scott of Vermont

Charlie Baker of Massachusetts

Mike DeWine of Ohio

Asa Hutchinson of Arkansas

Mike Parsons of Missouri

Brad Little of Idaho

Larry Hogan of Maryland

As you can see, most of these governors reside in states Trump carried by overwhelming margins. That is the result of Trump voters lulled into a false sense of security that Trump alone can stop the open-borders movement. However, the other elected GOP officials have not become more Trumpian in recent years.

Not only are GOP governors consenting to refugee resettlement, but even Republican-controlled counties are lining up for the social transformation. Pursuant to Trump’s executive order, refugees cannot be settled in a given county without the consent of the county’s governing body, in addition to the governor’s overall statewide consent. While most counties have remained silent, Twin Falls County, Idaho, just sent its consent to the State Department. Trump carried this county by 46 points, the same margin by which he carried Burleigh County, North Dakota, another red county that agreed to resettle more refugees. Who needs Democrats?

Speaking on Dec. 31 to RFA’s Lao Service, a member of the Nam Ou 1 Dam Resettlement Village management team said that compensation offered to the 134 families moved there from villages in the province’s Pak Ou district has not covered villagers’ losses.

“The compensation is not appropriate,” the village official said. “The villagers have been compensated for their trees, gardens, and rice fields, but the amounts are too low.”

“Some villagers have accepted the offered compensation, but many others like myself have not,” he said.

For example, authorities have paid out only U.S. $0.60 to $1.20 for teak trees, which take at least 10 years to grow and are worth ten times that amount, he said, while in another case, a family of three that had lived in a large house was moved to a house too small for their needs.