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US revokes all South Sudan visas over failure to repatriate citizens
- bigbacaloa 2y ago[dead]
- yieldcrv 2y agogoing after undocumented people by going after documented people
- like_any_other 2y agoBut 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 2y agoUndocumented in this context typically means they lack the necessary visas or documents to legally be present or work in the U.S
- like_any_other 2y agoThat's rather ridiculous terminology, isn't it? It's not about the documents, but about the permission the documents represent. It's like calling theft "undocumented retrieval of items", because I lack the documents to prove those items are mine - even when documents do exist, that prove those items aren't mine.
- evanb 2y agoIt’s a synecdoche.
- potato3732842 2y agoThe terminology came about because people didn't like them being called "illegals".
- yieldcrv 2y agoAre you sure? There is a subset of illegal immigrants that walked across the border and talked to nobody. No asylum waiver with a border patrol person, nothing. That group is entirely unknown and undocumented to the Federal government. I dont think its a reference to any other kind of immigrant.
- Gibbon1 2y agoWhat do we call this? Oh right group punishment.
- londons_explore 2y agoI 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?
- vkou 2y agoWould 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.
- jgyter 2y ago[flagged]
- 4ndrewl 2y agoNot 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 2y agoI'm sure most Americans can figure out South Sudan is just south of North Sudan. Ditto for East/West Virginia.
- ChocolateGod 2y agoI doubt most Americans can point to Sudan on a map.
- Freedom2 2y ago"Why do I need to know where any other countries in the world are, the United States is the best anyway!"
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- londons_explore 2y agoIs 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 2y agoIf China wants to I can envision a future in which Shanghai and Shenzhen have vibrant expat communities. It's not rocket science.
- amarcheschi 2y agoIt's not even that far fetched, given some places such as hk are already full of expats
- ethbr1 2y agoI'm not sure Hong Kong is the model China would use if they wanted expats.
- amarcheschi 2y agoFair take
- TMWNN 2y 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-america-recover-but-not-to-mexico/ 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-remittances-mexicos-gdp https://www.as-coa.org/articles/weekly-chart-oil-and-remitta...>—and 10-17% (!) of the economies of the other three countries.
- 000ooo000 2y agoStruggling to see how this bears any relevance to tech
- watwut 2y agoAbout as much as all the pro homeschooling articles we have been reading here for months.
- addicted 2y agoA 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 2y agoThis wave of fascism has been at least in part paid for and cheerlead by SV.
- egorfine 2y agoWait 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-administration-apologizes-ukrainian-refugees https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/05/trump-admini...
- UncleMeat 2y agoThe 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_sai 2y agoIt 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 2y agoSo, 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.
- deepfriedchokes 2y agoDefinitely need to start a “Deport Musk” movement.
- sega_sai 2y agousually 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...)
- vkou 2y agoOf course he can. But he won't. Because a core pillar of this movement is that rules are for other people.