The Trump administration has revoked its failure to accept repatriated citizens on all visas held by South Sudan passport holders.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio made an announcement on Saturday, calling some of the administration's efforts to strengthen immigration enforcement part of the lawsuit.
“Immediately, the US State Department will take steps to cancel all visas held by South Sudan passport holders, preventing further issuances to prevent South Sudan passport holders from entering the United States,” Rubio said at a press conference.
“All countries must accept the return of their citizens in a timely manner when other countries, including the United States, try to remove them,” the statement read.
Rubio added that new and harsh policies will only be reviewed if South Sudan is working with Trump administration policies.
In a post in X, Rubio added that “efforts to engage diplomatically with the South Sudan government have been rejected.”
“If it goes into effect immediately, all visa appointments will be cancelled and no new visas will be issued. As existing visas are not effective, no one in South Sudan will enter the US on a visa until this issue is resolved,” Rubio concluded in the post.
South Sudan is currently operating under a transitional government seeking to avoid an all-out civil war in Central African countries. It was not clear that this would affect the number of South Sudan citizens in the US.
The mediators met in the capital Juba earlier this week to avoid a rekindly civic fire after First Vice President Riek Machar was placed under house arrest.
Machar was taken into custody after weeks of fighting that broke out between the army and white militia on March 3rd.
