US revokes all South Sudan visas over failure to repatriate citizens

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-revokes-all-south-sudan-visas-over-failure-accept-repatriation-citizens-2025-04-05/

by gpi • 1 year ago

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yieldcrv2• 1 year ago

going after undocumented people by going after documented people

But they are both documented - they know their names, their home country, they might even have their passports with them. The presence or absence of documents is irrelevant.

gghffguhvc• 1 year ago

Undocumented in this context typically means they lack the necessary visas or documents to legally be present or work in the U.S

Gibbon1• 1 year ago

What do we call this? Oh right group punishment.

londons_explore2• 1 year ago

I was under the impression that the government of South Sudan was 'fragile'...

Do the US even have diplomatic comms with the government there, or is it possible emails have been landing in an unmonitored sudan_gov_enquiries@hotmail.com email address?

vkou2• 1 year ago

Would it matter if it did or didn't? The cruelty is the point for this regime and its supporters.

What's most fascinating is that many of the latter insist that they shouldn't be judged by what it does.

4ndrewl• 1 year ago

Not important. This is just testing the water with places most Americans have either not heard of or can't place on a map.

rich_sasha• 1 year ago

I'm sure most Americans can figure out South Sudan is just south of North Sudan. Ditto for East/West Virginia.

londons_explore2• 1 year ago

Is the supposed to spur other governments into action?

I could imagine it might have the reverse effect. Plenty of governments would like to see their best and brightest return home, complete with lots of money, stopping brain drain and giving their economies an influx of money and sharp minds.

Yeul• 1 year ago

If China wants to I can envision a future in which Shanghai and Shenzhen have vibrant expat communities. It's not rocket science.

amarcheschi2• 1 year ago

It's not even that far fetched, given some places such as hk are already full of expats

TMWNN• 1 year ago

I could imagine it might have the reverse effect. Plenty of governments would like to see their best and brightest return home

I can't speak for South Sudan specifically, but for Latin America, expatriates are a source of remittances that are very important for their birth countries' economies. $23 billion in remittances went from the US to Mexico in 2013 <http://www.pewhispanic.org/2013/11/15/remittances-to-latin-a...>. Another $10 billion to Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras. The US provides 78% of all remittances to Latin America, and 98% to Mexico.

A full 2% of Mexico's GDP is from remittances—larger than the petroleum industry <https://www.as-coa.org/articles/weekly-chart-oil-and-remitta...>—and 10-17% (!) of the economies of the other three countries.

dibujaron• 1 year ago

it's not so simple because many countries make lots of money from remittances of people working abroad in wealthy countries. setting up industry takes time; in the meantime they've lost a huge source of income.

mvdtnz• 1 year ago

It's supposed to spur South Sudan into action.

000ooo000• 1 year ago

Struggling to see how this bears any relevance to tech

watwut• 1 year ago

About as much as all the pro homeschooling articles we have been reading here for months.

addicted• 1 year ago

A lot of people in the tech industry in the U.S. are on visas. Including a lot of the YC co-founders.

Not only is this relevant to Tech, it’s relevant to YC tech.

At the very least it’s as relevant as the regular immigration lawyer AMAs.

Avshalom• 1 year ago

This wave of fascism has been at least in part paid for and cheerlead by SV.

egorfine• 1 year ago

Wait until your business is suddenly out of critical developers because Trump woke up and decided to kick out legal aliens.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/05/trump-admini...

UncleMeat• 1 year ago

The Trump administration is currently cancelling tons of student visas for international students. A significant reason why the US is the biggest tech hub is because so many people want to come here for undergrad and grad cs programs and then join the workforce here, including by founding companies. A world where our universities can't draw the best minds from around the world is a world where tech in the US falters.

sega_sai2• 1 year ago

It is absolutely clear now that any person in the US without a US passport, i.e., anyone with a visa or green card is now at the whim of the current government and should get ready to get deported and stripped of their visa if the say the wrong thing, participate in the protest, or if T*p decides that he doesn't like their home country.

ben_w• 1 year ago

So, a question: can Musk loose his US citizenship?

I mean, Musk does have two other citizenships, and between this and the tariffs on the island full of penguins, I can easily believe either or both of two future incidents where Trump signs an EO to order deportation of anyone with SA or CA citizenship due to their respective governments not cooperating with something or other.

sega_sai2• 1 year ago

usually in most countries you can remove the citizenship if there was fraud in obtaining it (and maybe for some national security reasons), but I don't know the US laws (not that anyone respects them now...)

deepfriedchokes• 1 year ago

Definitely need to start a “Deport Musk” movement.

vkou2• 1 year ago

Of course he can.

But he won't. Because a core pillar of this movement is that rules are for other people.

US revokes all South Sudan visas over failure to repatriate citizens

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