Trump says he is ending deportation protections for Somalis in Minnesota
President Trump on Friday said he is ending deportation protections for Somali immigrants in Minnesota.
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President Trump on Friday said he is ending deportation protections for Somali immigrants in Minnesota.
The termination marks a significant shift in U.S. policy toward South Sudan, a country that U.N. experts warn could be sliding "back toward another deadly war."
CBS News exclusively learned that the Department of Homeland Security is planning to end Temporary Protected Status for South Sudanese nationals. The move would end more than a decade of protection that allowed thousands of displaced South Sudanese nationals to live and work in the U.S. CBS News homeland security correspondent Nicole Sganga reports.
At least 14 soldiers were killed in South Sudan after a suspected "love triangle" dispute led to a shootout, the army said.
The man, a Mexican identified as Jesus Munoz-Gutierrez, was among a group of eight who had been in South Sudan government custody since their deportation.
Assistant Department of Homeland Security Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said the deportation flight carrying the deportees landed in South Sudan just before midnight EST on Friday.
A judge ordered the Trump administration to maintain custody of the migrants, whose lawyers say they were on a flight bound for violence-plagued South Sudan.
A federal judge said the Trump administration violated a court order when it deported eight convicted criminals to South Sudan. CBS News immigration and politics reporter Camilo Montoya-Galvez has the details.
A federal judge is weighing in after the U.S. apparently prepared to send a group of migrants to South Sudan. It is not clear where the plane is or where the migrants are. CBS News' Nicole Sganga reports.
The aerial bombing on Saturday in South Sudan killed at least seven and caused significant damage to the hospital's pharmacy, destroying all medical supplies.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the U.S. decided to revoke all visas for South Sudanese citizens because the country's government failed to accept the return of its citizens being removed from the U.S. in a "timely matter."
It was the first such measure singling out all passport holders from a particular country since President Trump returned to the White House.
The travel advisory level for South Sudan remains at Level 4, which means Americans should not travel to the African country.
The world's youngest country, South Sudan, has faced wars, a hunger crisis, kidnappings, rapes and unprecedented flooding. As CBS News' Leah Mishkin reports, the country's basketball team hopes to give their nation "a beacon of hope" as they make their Olympic debut in Paris.
Craig Austin Lang faces a maximum penalty of life in prison after an "international crime spree."
39 civilians, including all members of 5 families and most of some others, were killed in just one day, a human rights activist from the area told CBS News.
Neighboring South Sudan says the two sides have accepted a plan to enter peace talks that includes a week-long ceasefire.
What was supposed to be a 24-hour ceasefire Tuesday in Sudan lasted just minutes before residents say they heard gunfire and explosions. Fighting between the country's army and a paramilitary group has killed more than 180 civilians and injured nearly 2,000 more since Saturday. CBS News international correspondent Debora Patta has more.
Pope Francis arrived in South Sudan on Friday after his visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo. South Sudan has faced a decade of civil war and years of poverty. CBS News foreign correspondent Chris Livesay reports from Juba, South Sudan, with the latest on the pope's mission.
Several African countries are on the brink of famine as millions face starvation. CBS News foreign correspondent Debora Patta recently traveled to South Sudan to get a closer look at the situation there and to investigate what's causing these catastrophic conditions.
Young female children in South Sudan are being forced out of school and into marriage as young as 14. The World Food Program has stopped its school feeding scheme in the wake of funding cuts and the family of a daughter entering into marriage will be paid in cows as a dowry. Debora Patta speaks with a child bride on her wedding day and her Father who negotiated the price of 80 under-nourished cows.
"I know I'm young," Nyekuoth Manyuan told CBS News. "But the food's been taken away, and I want my family to survive."
CBS News foreign correspondent Debora Patta reports from South Sudan, where millions were already starving before the war in Ukraine triggered global price hikes.
The World Food Programme announced last month that it can no longer provide humanitarian aid to many people in South Sudan. The East-African country has also been ravaged by flood and drought, leaving millions in devastating conditions. Deborah Patta reports.
Flooding and famine already had millions in South Sudan clinging to survival. CBS News sees how the war on another continent is cutting their only lifeline.
The U.S. military's early September strike on an alleged Venezuelan drug boat has drawn new scrutiny as the White House confirmed that the vessel was struck twice.
School choice advocate Erika Donalds called the publicly funded schools a "national model" and defended millions paid to vendors she was tied to.
The White House said President Trump's October MRI analyzed his cardiovascular system and abdomen.
Michael and Susan Dell said they will spend $6.25 million to fund Invest America accounts for U.S. children.
Trump claims efforts in Honduras to "change the results" of an election in which he's backed the party of an ex-president convicted of trafficking cocaine to the U.S.
Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe remains in serious condition after last week's shooting in Washington, D.C., but West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey said Monday that the National Guard member is showing "a positive sign."
The Trump administration is looking into whether Minnesota tax money found its way to al Shabaab, an al Qaeda affiliate based in Somalia, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said.
House Democrats allege Patel has used the FBI's Gulfstream jet for a "date night" in Tennessee and an outing with friends in Texas.
The shooting raised questions about whether the government missed any red flags about the alleged attacker, 29-year-old Afghan national Rahmanullah Lakanwal.