US revokes all visas for South Sudanese over country’s failure to repatriate citizens
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US Revokes All South Sudanese Visas Amid Deportation Dispute
Above: U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio at NATO's headquarters in Brussels on April 3, 2025. Image copyright: Jacquelyn Martin/Contributor/Pool/AFP via Getty Images
The Spin
Pro-establishment narrative
This bold action serves as a necessary enforcement measure to ensure countries comply with their international obligations to accept deported citizens of their countries. It's time nations stop taking advantage of US immigration policies and start maintaining the integrity of America's border security.
Establishment-critical narrative
This visa revocation represents the United States exacerbating an already volatile humanitarian crisis in South Sudan rather than helping to calm it. People may be forced to return to a nation on the brink of civil war — disrupting their educational endeavors and cutting off connections for South Sudanese communities in the United States.