CBC News reports:
The United States is revoking all visas for South Sudanese passport holders and blocking new arrivals, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Saturday, complaining the African nation is not accepting its nationals expelled from the U.S.
The State Department “is taking actions to revoke all visas held by South Sudanese passport holders and prevent further issuance to prevent entry,” Rubio said in a statement. It was the first such measure singling out all passport holders from a particular country since President Trump returned to the White House on Jan. 20, having campaigned on an anti-immigration platform.
Rubio accused the transitional government in Juba of “taking advantage of the United States,” saying that “every country must accept the return of its citizens in a timely manner when another country…seeks to remove them.”
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This decision directly contradicts the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) that the United States had previously pledged to provide to these individuals due to the security conditions in their country.
This move marks a formal abandonment of the humanitarian principles that have… pic.twitter.com/zUHuVzMh77— khaled mahmoued (@khaledmahmoued1) April 6, 2025