The Trump administration revokes the visas of South Sudan in clash on the deportees
The secretary of state Marco Rubio declared Saturday that he was revoking the visas of all the owners of passports of South Sudan because the country’s transition government had refused to accept in a “timely” citizens who were expelled from the Trump administration.
Mr. Rubio also said in a Social media posts That would have “limited any further issue to prevent the entry” of the South Sudanese, blaming the “bankruptcy of the transition government of South Sudan” to accept the repatriates. In a declaration issued through the State Department, Rubio said: “We will be ready to review these actions when South Sudan is in full collaboration”.
Rubio’s action is similar to that that President Trump announced at the end of January, when he threatened Colombian officials with revocation of their visas and export rates of the country because they were refusing to accept US military flights with Colombian deportees. In that case, Colombia quickly reversed its decision.
The decision of Mr. Rubio to approve such a radical action on the visas of travelers and immigrants of South Sudan is a further sign of the intention of the Trump administration on the attempt to expel the greatest number of foreign citizens from the United States as quickly as possible, an action that Trump would promised that he would undertake during the campaign track.
Some of the deported potentials have intended legal actions against the Trump administration and consequently several judges have issued temporary restriction orders.
South Sudan officials were not immediately reached for a comment late on Saturday.
Lucas GuttagoG, a former official of the Department of Justice during the Biden Administration, defined the move “another example of individuals harmful based on nationality and overturns the life of innocent visa and right holders instead of committing to a significant diplomacy”.
The Trump administration has attempted to conduct a mass deportation campaign through important operations in the United States in recent months. Mr. Rubio claimed that he had the right to revoke the visas of some of those potential deportees, now in detention centers, because they were subverting American foreign policy.
Several prominent prisoners He took part in the protests of the campus or wrote essays against the Israeli war in Gaza and the support of American weapons for this.
Mr. Rubio said on March 27 that he had revoked Maybe 300 or more viewed And he signed documents daily to expel more people. The most important foreign citizen who revoked the visa was perhaps óscar Arias Sánchez, former president of Costa Rica and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. Mr. Arias he said Tuesday that the United States government had informed him that the visa in his passport had been suspended, weeks after writing on social media that Mr. Trump was behaving as if he were “a Roman emperor”.
The United States government has long faced problems with countries that assume people intended to be expelled from the National Security Department, due to the lack of diplomatic ties or the problems that adequate travel documents obtain. During the first administration of Trump, US officials imposed visa penalties in various countries that considered non -collaborative. Those penalties hit some people already abroad in search of visas.
In 2023, the Biden administration offered protection from deportation to migrants from South Sudan through a program known as a temporary protected state. The decision was made, the officials said because of violence in the country. Those protections work until May.
