Visa sanctions placed on four countries that refuse to take back deported citizens

Washington Times:
The Trump administration has triggered visa sanctions against four countries that have refused to take back citizens the U.S. is trying to deport — tapping a little-used but very effective tool for forcing compliance.

Officials at Homeland Security and the State Department confirmed the move Tuesday but declined to name the four countries.

Sources who tracked the deliberations in recent weeks, however, said the countries were Cambodia, Eritrea, Guinea and Sierra Leone.

Triggering the sanctions fulfills a campaign promise by President Trump, who had chided the Obama administration for not doing more to force countries to take back their deportees.

Once in office, Mr. Trump had ordered his government to use a provision in law that allows him to slap sanctions on countries that thwart deportation efforts. Homeland Security triggered the law by sending letters to the State Department this week, and now State must halt issuance of visas to some or all of those countries’ citizens.
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Countries’ refusal to take back their deportees has led to tragic results. In one high-profile case, Haiti refused repatriation of Jean Jacques, a man who’d served time for attempted murder. Unable to hold him beyond 180 days, thanks to a 2001 Supreme Court ruling, federal agents released Jacques — and within months he murdered a young woman in Connecticut in a drug dispute with her boyfriend.

Another illegal immigrant, Thong Vang, was released from prison in 2014 after serving time for rape convictions, but his home country of Laos refused to take him back. He ended up back in a California prison last year and shot two guards, police said.
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There are other countries who may join them on the visa suspension list.  Two of the biggest problem countries are China and Cuba.

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