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I am taking actions to revoke all visas held by South Sudanese passport holders and to restrict any further issuance to prevent entry into the United States, effective immediately,...
X.com ^ | 4:46 PM · Apr 5, 2025 | Secretary Marco Rubio✓ @SecRubio

Posted on 04/05/2025 4:46:38 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

... due to the failure of South Sudan's transitional government to accept the return of its repatriated citizens in a timely manner.


(Excerpt) Read more at x.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: southsudan

1 posted on 04/05/2025 4:46:38 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Well played!

CC


2 posted on 04/05/2025 4:49:15 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Great news.

I had some doubts whether Rubio was up to the job of Sec. of State. But I’ll have to admit I have been pleasantly surprised.


3 posted on 04/05/2025 4:54:31 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn (“Giving money & power to government is like giving whiskey & car keys to teenage boys” P.J. O’Rourke)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Good


4 posted on 04/05/2025 4:57:36 PM PDT by Nifster ( I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Excellent. Start cancelling the “refugee” status of more and more of those groups brought here illegally by Obama and Biden (Obama3rd). Some will voluntarily leave and some will wait until they are picked up by cops or ICE.


5 posted on 04/05/2025 4:59:06 PM PDT by CFW
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To: CFW

Trump has his back.


6 posted on 04/05/2025 4:59:47 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

My son in law goes to South Sudan 2-3 times a year as a missionary. All planned future trips have been cancelled due to the unrest.


7 posted on 04/05/2025 5:06:27 PM PDT by cyclotic (Don’t be part of the problem. Be the entire problem)
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To: SharpRightTurn
"I had some doubts whether Rubio was up to the job of Sec. of State. But I’ll have to admit I have been pleasantly surprised."

Ditto here.

8 posted on 04/05/2025 5:20:05 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

In the meantime, pack them all in the Sudanese embassy and diplomatic houses, especially the violent criminals.


9 posted on 04/05/2025 5:29:23 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Lots to discover in MN.
The Somali Trolly that goes to the Mall of America.


10 posted on 04/05/2025 5:47:47 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: Zathras

Somali Trolley.

Wow. I could have thought that was a joke but since you are on FR I believed you and looked it up.
Amazing. No wonder the Ilhan Omar support was so strong.

In 2015 there was a boycott against the Mall of America for not standing with Black Lives Matter like they wanted.


11 posted on 04/05/2025 6:00:10 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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Sexual Violence in Sudan April, 2025. From JusticInfo.net

“with the United Nations saying the RSF (paramilitary Rapid Support Forces) are “responsible for committing sexual violence on a large scale in areas under their control, including gang-rapes and abducting and detaining victims in conditions that amount to sexual slavery.””


Global Conflict Tracker. 2025.
As the civil war enters its third year, Sudan’s two warring factions remain locked in a deadly power struggle. Death toll estimates vary widely, with the former U.S. envoy for Sudan suggesting as many as one hundred and fifty thousand people have been killed since the conflict began on April 15, 2023. More than fourteen million have been displaced, giving rise to the worst displacement crisis in the world. Nearly three million displaced Sudanese have fled to unstable areas in Chad, Ethiopia, and South Sudan, overrunning refugee camps. The UN continues to plead for more support as more than thirty million need humanitarian assistance, and deteriorating food security risks are triggering the “world’s largest hunger crisis.”


12 posted on 04/05/2025 6:05:20 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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Good!


13 posted on 04/05/2025 6:08:22 PM PDT by Bigg Red (My long-time tagline has been removed and will be stored on my home page as it has proved true.)
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To: CFW
Start cancelling the “refugee” status of more and more of those groups

Start cancelling ALL visas from countries that don't cooperate!!

14 posted on 04/05/2025 6:09:21 PM PDT by ladyjane
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Lots to discover in MN. The Somali Trolly that goes to the Mall of America........and this.


Somali Democrat donors charged in Somali food fraud
By Anthony Gockowski -September 23, 2022
Minnesota we the people

pic-—Liban Yasin Alishire used money stolen from the federal Child Nutrition Programs to purchase resort in Kenya. Campaign finance records show the 42-year-old Somali donated $2,500 to campaign of Democrat AG Keith Ellison.


At least nine of the 48 Somalis accused of defrauding the government of $250 million meant to feed hungry children have donated to Democratic officeholders in Minnesota. The number is likely higher and Alpha News is working to confirm the identities of additional defendants.

Campaign finance records show 42-year-old Liban Yasin Alishire donated $2,500 in May of this year to the reelection campaign of Attorney General Keith Ellison. Alishire listed Hoodo Properties as his employer, which was a shell company he created to purchase luxury items and real estate with money he stole from the government, according to an indictment. “[A]s the list of those indicted in the federal fraud investigation into Feeding Our Future became public, we became aware of a donation to our campaign from one of the individuals charged. We immediately refunded the donation in full,” Ellison’s campaign said in a statement provided to Alpha News.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced charges against 48 Minnesotans Tuesday for allegedly defrauding the federal government’s Child Nutrition Programs of $250 million in a little over 20 months. “These [48] defendants engaged in a brazen scheme of staggering proportions,” U.S. Attorney Andy Luger said during a press conference announcing the charges.

At the center of the charges is Aimee Bock, the founder and executive director of Feeding Our Future, a nonprofit whose offices were raided in January. “Feeding Our Future” participated in the Summer Food Service Program and the Child and Adult Care Food Programs, both belonging to the US Dept of Agriculture’s Child Nutrition Programs.

These programs provide reimbursements for meals distributed to low-income children by food sites, like schools, nonprofits, restaurants, and more. Each food site must have a sponsor organization, in this case Feeding Our Future. The food sites submit reports on how many meals they are serving to the sponsor organization, which then submits the reports to the government for reimbursement.

In Minnesota, the federal reimbursements are wired to the sponsor organizations via the Department of Education, hence the recent criticism of this state agency. The sponsor organization then disburses the money among the food sites.

In some cases, the money flowed to the “fake meal sites” and then back to Somalis Feeding Our Future in the form of kickbacks, according to Luger. Somali Alishire was the president of an organization called Community Enhancement Services, located in the JigJiga Business Center in Minneapolis.

His company operated a food site under the sponsorship of Feeding Our Future, falsely claiming to serve as many as 2,700 meals a day, seven days a week, according to an indictment. In total, Community Enhancement Services falsely claimed to have served more than 800,000 meals to low-income children between February and October 2021, the indictment says.

Liban Yasin Alishire, right, pictured with Minnesota Sen. Omar Fateh, center and his Somali co-defendants received more than $1.6 million tax dollars in Child Nutrition Programs funds. He allegedly transferred this money to shell companies and used it to purchase property in Kenya, a truck, and a boat.

Alishire also paid more than $200,000 in kickbacks to a Feeding Our Future employee in exchange for Feeding Our Future’s sponsorship of his company’s “fraudulent participation” in the program, according to the indictment. Alishire operated a second fake food site with his co-defendants, which received $180,000 in reimbursements, the indictment says.

During his first court appearance Thursday, prosecutors said Alishire purchased a resort in Kenya using the stolen funds, KARE 11’s Lou Raguse reports. A judge ordered his release, despite concerns from the prosecution about him fleeing the country. At least three defendants have already left the country, according to Raguse.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, Minnesota Sen. Omar Fateh, and Minneapolis Council Member Jeremiah Ellison, the attorney general’s son, have all received donations from defendants in the case. Three of the defendants previously served in appointed positions in the Minneapolis city government. Omar, Fateh, and Frey have said in previous statements to the media that they’ve returned the donations. None of them replied to requests for comment.

Liban Yasin Alishire
Attorney General Keith Ellison: $2,500 (5/27/22)
Abdinasir Mahamed Abshir
Sen. Omar Fateh: $1,000 (6/6/21)
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey: $1,000 (7/27/21)
Minneapolis Council Member Jeremiah Ellison: $600 (12/20/21)
Asad Mohamed Abshir
Sen. Omar Fateh: $1,000 (6/6/21)
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey: $1,000 (7/27/21)
Abdihakim Ali Ahmed
Sen. Omar Fateh: $1,000 (6/6/2021)
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey: $1,000 (7/27/21)
U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar: $2,700 (3/31/2021)
Ahmed Abdullahi Ghedi
Sen. Omar Fateh: $1,000 (6/6/21)
Minneapolis Council Member Jeremiah Ellison: $600 (12/20/21)
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey: $1,000 (7/27/21)
U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar: $2,700 (2/23/21)
Salim Ahmed Said
Sen. Omar Fateh: $1,000 (6/6/21)
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey: $1,000 (7/27/21)
Minneapolis Council Member Jeremiah Ellison: $600 (12/20/21)
Abdulkadir Nur Salah
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey: $1,000 (7/26/21)
Minneapolis Council Member Jeremiah Ellison: $600 (12/20/21)
Abdikadir Ainanshe Mohamud, previously served on Mayor Frey’s community safety working group
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey: $1,000 (7/26/21)
Abdi Nur Salah, former aide to Mayor Frey
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey: $1,000 (7/27/21)


15 posted on 04/05/2025 6:34:44 PM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray...."Our Father, who art in heaven......")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Thank you, Mr. President!


16 posted on 04/05/2025 7:36:24 PM PDT by gildafarrell (You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Im really liking Rubio, turning out to be a no nonsense guy


17 posted on 04/06/2025 5:02:09 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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