The United States cancels visas for South Sudan on the deportation dispute

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that the United States is immediately abolishing visas issued to all passports in southern Sudan due to the African nation’s refusal to accept its citizens who were removed from the United States.

Rubio added, in a statement on Saturday, that the United States will also prevent any citizens coming in southern Sudan, the latest country in the world, in the American entry ports.

He blamed “the failure of the transitional government in South Sudan to accept the return of its hostile citizens in a timely manner.”

The cornerstone of President Donald Trump’s immigration policy is to remove illegal immigrants from the United States, with the promise of “collective deportation”.

“It is time for South Sudan’s transition government to stop benefiting from the United States,” Rubio said.

“Every country must accept the return of its citizens in time when another country, including the United States, seeks to remove it,” he added.

It comes with the growth of fears that South Sudan may come back to the civil war.

On March 8, the United States has ordered all its non -emergency employees in southern Sudan to leave with the outbreak of regional fighting, threatening a fragile peace agreement in 2018.

Southern Sudanese in the United States have previously been granted the temporary protected situation (TPS), which allows them to stay in the United States for a specific period of time.

TPS for the southern Sudanese in the United States was scheduled to end on May 3.

South Sudan, the latest country in the world, gained independence in 2011 after its separation from Sudan.

But only two years later, in the wake of the rift between President Salva Kiir and Vice President Rick Mashr, tensions broke out to a civil war, where more than 400,000 people were killed.

The 2018 power-sharing agreement was suspended between the two of the fighting, but the main elements of the deal were not implemented-including a new constitution, election and reunification of armed groups into one army.

Intermittent violence between ethnic and local groups continued in parts of the country.

Since his return to office, the Trump administration has clashed with international governments to deport its citizens from the United States.

In January, Colombian President Gustavo Petro prevented two American military trips carrying migrants who were deported from landing in his country in South America.

Petro fell after Trump promised to put definitions and sanctions on Colombia.