Is 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.
> 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-a...>. Another $10 billion to Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras. The US provides 78% of all remittances to Latin America, and 98% to Mexico.
it's not so simple because many countries make lots of money from remittances of people working abroad in wealthy countries. setting up industry takes time; in the meantime they've lost a huge source of income.
It 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.
So, 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.
usually 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...)
I 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?
But 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.
That'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.
Are 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.
The 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.
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.