Trump Administration Revokes All Visas for South Sudan's Citizens

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Source: Newsweek

Published Apr 05, 2025 at 7:19 PM EDT | Updated Apr 05, 2025 at 8:30 PM EDT


U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced on Saturday the revocation of all U.S. visas held by South Sudanese passport holders and will restrict future visa issuance, citing South Sudan's failure to accept the return of its citizens when the United States seeks to remove them. Newsweek reached out to the State Department, the U.S. Embassy in Juba, South Sudan, and the Embassy of the Republic of South Sudan via email on Saturday for comment.

Why It Matters

This marks the first measure under the second Trump administration that singles out all passport holders from a specific country since Trump returned to the White House in January.

This latest measure comes amid a broader immigration crackdown that includes the administration's move last month to revoke Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Venezuelans, which was temporarily blocked by U.S. District Judge Edward Chen.

What Is Temporary Protected Status?

TPS is a program administered by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) that offers protection to eligible foreign nationals who cannot safely return to their home countries due to extraordinary circumstances. The Secretary of Homeland Security may designate a country for TPS due to ongoing armed conflict, environmental disasters, or other extraordinary conditions.

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/trump-administration-revokes-all-visas-south-sudans-citizens-2055940

[Bengus81]

1. All of them gang members too?

[Javaman]

2. the orange asshole just sentenced so many people to death. :( nt

[WhiteTara]

3. take that! Congresswoman Omar

We'll get you and all your fellow country citizens. That's what you get for criticizing the orange anus.
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[BumRushDaShow]

6. She's from Somalia not South Sudan

the latter actually being a relatively "new" country - breaking off from Sudan in 2011. I remember when now-deceased talk host Joe Madison was actively involved in South Sudan getting its independence. It's a shame what has happened there in terms of their civil war.

[WhiteTara]

10. thanks for the correction

[Karadeniz]

4. But hes working on how to get south africsn whities here....

[eppur_se_muova]

9. I was going to say ... South Sudanese war/famine refugees bad, South African fugitives from racial equality OK ? nt

[ms liberty]

5. Khaman Maluach is from South Sudan. He played last night for Duke.

So they're going to deport a Duke student and basketball player?

[BumRushDaShow]

7. You wait until they get around to MLB and all those "illegals"

from Cuba, Venezuela, and Dominican Republic. And almost 1/2 of the NHL are Canadians, Russians, Swedes, Czechs, and other Europeans.

[IzzaNuDay]

8. First they Came For: 2025 style

Martin Niemöller’s poem rings prophetic today:

First they came for the Black people in the US because they were DEI.
Then they came for anyone who one lived south of the US border, especially anyone not speaking English as a primary language and/or melanated
Then they came for Middle Eastern people, especially the Muslim followers.

We have to keep up the heat on this administration, because you or I could be next.

[Eugene]

11. TPS exists not only because returnees face danger, but also because returning them would destabilize their country

even further.

South Sudan has been on the brink of state failure for years. This move is not just cruel, it's stupid.

[LudwigPastorius]

12. It's almost like "Make America Great Again" is all about...

"cleansing" the country of certain "ethnicities".

[malthaussen]

13. I'll just note here that "othering" whole classes of people indiscriminately is a totalitarian tactic...

... it implicitly says that there are no individuals, only blocs. Easy to do when the people are not familiar with the class as a whole and are ready to believe anything of them, but it's amazing how these bigots always make exceptions for members of the class they do know. They're "different," almost honorary people.

-- Mal

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

14. Trump doesn't want any of them colored people

White South Africans however are okay.
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