US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced that the United States has immediately withdrawn visas issued to all passport holders in South Sudan because of the African nation, which refuses to accept its citizens who have been removed from the United States.
In a statement on Saturday, Rubio added that the United States would also block all arriving citizens of South Sudan, the world's smallest country, in the ports of entry into the United States.
He accused “the failure of the transitional government of South Sudan to accept the return of its repatriated citizens in a timely manner.”
President Donald Trump's immigration policy eliminates illegal migrants from the United States with the promise of “mass deportations”.
“It is time for the transitional government of South Sudan to stop taking advantage of the United States,” Rubio said.
“Every country must accept the return of its citizens in a timely manner when another country, including the United States, strives to eliminate them,” he added.
He comes when they are afraid that South Sudan can again descend into a civil war.
On March 8, the United States ordered all its employees not to be in South Sudan to leave as regional battles broke out, threatening a fragile peace deal agreed in 2018.
Earlier in South Sudan, the United States received a temporary protective status (TPS), which allows them to stay in the United States for a period of time.
TPS for South Sudan in the US had to expire by May 3.
South Sudan, the most nation in the world, gained independence in 2011 after separating from Sudan.
But only two years later, after a break between President Salva Kiir and Vice President Riek Machar, tensions erupted in a civil war that killed more than 400,000 people.
Agreement to share power in 2018 between the two stopped the fighting, but the key elements of the transaction were not applied-influencing a new constitution, elections and unification of armed groups in an army.
Sporadic violence between ethnic and local groups continues in parts of the country.
After returning to the position of Trump, the Trump administration was confronted with international governments over the deportations of its US citizens.
In January, Colombia President Gustavo Petroleum banned two US military flights carrying deported landing migrants in his country in South America.
Petro gave way after Trump promised to put in crippling tariffs and sanctions against Colombia.