GOP Rep. Marlin Stutzman told Fox News Digital that the recent Signal leak debacle was ‘obviously’ a mistake, but he expressed confidence in the Trump administration's national security officials and said he trusts the president to determine whether any consequences should be handed down.
"Yes, obviously, we don't want those things to happen," Stutzman. R-Ind., told Fox News from inside the Capitol. "We all know that President Trump is America First. He supports our military, he supports security – I mean, he is the law and order president, so he's going to make sure that he takes care of this… he's going to be the one to make this decision and I support whatever decision he makes."
Stutzman's comments came amid a reported attempt by Democratic Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar to introduce articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, national security advisor Michael Waltz and CIA Director John Ratcliffe, each of whom were involved in the Signal chat leak.
Trump confirmed Thursday aboard Air Force One that multiple employees within the National Security Council were fired, but did add that it was not many. So far, no consequences have been handed down to Hegseth, Waltz or Ratcliffe, three of the highest-ranking officials who allegedly participated in the leaked Signal chat.
Republicans have said there was no classified material shared or discussed in the leaked Signal chat, but Democrats have insisted the manner in which sensitive information was handled was still "reckless," potentially illegal and constituted the need for repercussions.
But Stutzman expressed confidence in the administration's national security officials and the president, noting that "so far" everyone involved has taken appropriate responsibility and "they're going to make sure that it doesn't happen again."
"I think they'll analyze every communication channel that they have," Stutzman said. "I think that they're going to be sure, especially this soon in the administration – this will be a top priority for them… we all know that there are folks all around the world trying to get into American leaders' conversations all the time, and so they're going to be just as diligent."
Left-wing movie director Oliver Stone slammed Democrats for weaponizing federal law enforcement and "lying" in their attempts to charge the president with Russian collusion during the 2016 election.
Stone, meanwhile, applauded President Donald Trump for taking steps to find out what really happened, adding that he is "absolutely" right that the federal government has been weaponized to attack political opponents.
Trump recently signed a new executive order directing the FBI to immediately declassify files concerning Crossfire Hurricane, the initial investigation launched in 2016 that sought information on whether members of the Trump campaign were colluding with the Russians to undermine the election. The president has also taken steps to go after the law firms involved in the scandal, including by suspending the security clearances for their attorneys and barring them from entering any federal buildings.
"Russiagate – we paid for it," Stone said. "I applaud [what Trump is doing], and I hate what they did with Russiagate, I really do. I think it's – again, the lying, the lying, the lying, and selling that to the American people."
When asked if he felt Trump was right about there being weaponization of the federal government against conservatives, Stone responded: "There was."
Stone, who has produced several documentaries supporting Russian narratives about Ukraine, added that the underlying premise behind Russiagate – that Russia is a nefarious actor – is wrong and "un-American."
"They are potentially our best partners, as are the Chinese. I mean, we have this mentality that they're the enemy," Stone said. "That's all been inculcated by propaganda. If you go out there to China, and you go out to Russia, you don't hear that kind of vituperative dialogue."
However, while Stone said he agreed with Trump's approach to taking on those involved with Russiagate, he did lament the president's attacks on pro-Palestinian protesters over alleged antisemitism.
"I don't like this new thing about censorship coming from Trump," said Stone. "Against the anti – what he calls ‘antisemitic news’ – I mean, I don't agree. I don't know where he's coming from, and it's not what he promised."
President Donald Trump unveiled his latest tariff plan last week on "Liberation Day," which the administration said will restore the American Dream and spark an economic boon for U.S. workers.
"American steel workers, auto workers, farmers and skilled craftsmen," Trump said from the White House Rose Garden last Wednesday afternoon in his announcement. "We have a lot of them here with us today. They really suffered, gravely. They watched in anguish as foreign leaders have stolen our jobs, foreign cheaters have ransacked our factories, and foreign scavengers have torn apart our once-beautiful American dream. We had an American dream that you don't hear so much about. You did four years ago, and you are now. But you don't too often."
"Now it's our turn to prosper, and in so doing, use trillions and trillions of dollars to reduce our taxes and pay down our national debt," he continued. "And it will all happen very quickly. With today's action, we are finally going to be able to make America great again, greater than ever before. Jobs and factories will come roaring back into our country, and you see it happening already. We will supercharge our domestic industrial base."
The Trump administration’s tariff plan leveled a baseline tariff of 10% on all imports to the U.S., while customized tariffs were set for countries that have higher tariffs in place on American goods. The baseline tariffs of 10% took effect on Saturday, while the other tariffs will take effect on April 9.
Trump pointed to the European Union during his announcement, and explained the U.S. will charge the EU a 20% tariff, compared to its39%tariffs on the U.S. Japan will see24% tariffs, compared to the 46% the country charges the U.S., while China will be hit with a34% tariff, compared to the 67% it charges the U.S.
The customized tariffs, Trump explained, would not be full reciprocal tariffs, as his administration was "very kind" and leveled tariffs that are roughly half of what a particular nation was charging the U.S. on tariffs.
"For nations that treat us badly, we will calculate the combined rate of all their tariffs, nonmonetary barriers and other forms of cheating," Trump said Wednesday.
"And because we are being very kind, we will charge them approximately half of what they are and have been charging us," he said. "So, the tariffs will be not a full reciprocal. I could have done that. Yes. But it would have been tough for a lot of countries."
Fox News Digital examined the full tariff list and spoke to experts about who stands to lose the most due to the tariffs, and who will likely benefit and tackle the new tariffs victoriously.
Fox News Digital spoke with Samir Kapadia, a managing principal at the lobbying and advisory firmthe Vogel Group, who explained Vietnam will likely lose the most business due to the upcoming tariffs.
"Vietnam has long been an amicable trade partner with the United States for a variety of sectors, whether that would be textiles and apparel or computers and consumer electronics, but there has been a gross inequity in the bilateral trade relationship. Vietnam simply doesn't have the economy or the resources to import from the United States and to… provide that reciprocity," Kapadia explained.
Vietnam charges the U.S. a 90% tariff on imported goods to the nation. The Trump administration last week announced the Southeast Asian country will face a 46% tariff on goods imported to the U.S.
Vietnam's industries are also deeply rooted in Chinese business investments, Kapadia said.
"To add insult to injury, they also have been a hot bed for Chinese investment. Since the imposition of the Section 301 tariffs under the first Trump administration, which were these large-scale tariffs on Chinese imports, you had a whole number of Chinese companies across a variety of industries in the consumer product segment basically invest, instead, in factories in Vietnam as a way to circumvent paying tariffs, so the Chinese would keep their market share, but just go and make it in another country," he explained.
Trump signed a memo under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 in 2018 under his first administration targeting Chinese goods for U.S. tariffs in response to Chinese theft of American intellectual property, Trump said at the time.
"This was by far the worst day for the Vietnamese government, in the sense, they're realizing that that door has now closed. A 46% tariff – Vietnam is not an attractive country to import from. The numbers won't work," Kapadia said of the new rounds of tariffs targeting Vietnam.
The Asian nation has already felt the pinch, and called on Trump to delay the tariffs from taking effect this weekend.
Vietnam's leader To Lam wrote a letter to Trump on Saturday, the New York Times reported, asking him to delay the imposition of the tariffs for at least 45 days and for the pair of world leaders to meet in Washington, D.C., in May "to jointly come to an agreement on this important matter, for the benefit of both our peoples and to contribute to peace, stability and development in the region and the world."
The "biggest losers" from Trump's Wednesday announcement are "without question" China and Vietnam, Kapadia said.
China was hit with a 34% tariff as part of Trump's announcement last week, which is in addition to previous tariffs leveled on the nation. Kappadia said the newest upcoming tariff and the "high-band" tariffs of 45% on some Chinese goods puts the country's tariff barrier at about 75% to 80%, which Kapadia predicted could grow to 150% by the end of 2025.
"That's because there's just a lot of ongoing challenges with China that have not begun to kind of roll-out or get resolved, and ultimately the United States is going to have to continue to pressure U.S. companies to invest more in the United States, and the only way to do that is to continue to put pressure on China," Kapadia said.
The trade expert continued that other nations, particularly European export sectors, could also see fallout from the tariff plan in regard to luxury products or household purchases, but that it's too early to predict where the chips will fall with Europe.
"I think that that might resolve itself over time, depending upon how the Europeans behave. From what we've seen, just early next week, we're going to have some dignitaries and officials from Europe come and visit the president to negotiate on a potential resolution. All in the meanwhile, they are threatening a retaliatory 20% tariff to kind of make this tit-for-tat based on the reciprocal tariff announcement, but we know from the president that all that's going to do is turn the 20% that we put on Europe to 40%," he said.
Kapadia pointed to India and Japan as the two nations that will benefit from Trump's tariff plan last week.
"We have seen both the Japanese head of state and the Indian head of state come to Washington and provide the president with opportunities where they would then reduce their own tariff barriers," he said.
"Just a week before this announcement, Prime Minister Modi came out and provided a whole list to the government… that says, 'Here are all the things that I'm going to reduce, in terms of tariffs of U.S. exports to India' And so I think that's going to continue. And I think that they're going to make headway at getting toward more equitable trade between the two countries," he added.
Trump unveiled a 27% tariff on India on "Liberation Day" and a 24% tariff on Japan.
"I think that they're going to make headway at getting toward more equitable trade between the two countries, whether that's India and the U.S. or Japan and the U.S., and honestly serves to the U.S.' benefit to rectify some of those tariff barriers with India," he said. "It is the largest democratic country in the world, and they are strategic ally for geopolitical reasons and a number of other considerations. And so they're going to be a country that I think we have to watch and really see how they negotiate their way through this new tariff regime."
Kapadia pointed to a handful of U.S. companies that operate in India, such as Lego, Apple and Goldman Sachs, and predicted companies that have made large-scale investments in India will likely stay there, while they will likely move other overseas operations in nations facing even higher tariffs, such as Vietnam, to India.
"You name it, a whole slew of U.S. companies have made concerted, large-scale investments in India. I think that they're going to stick to them. I think they're going to grow there. And if you look at the difference, just on our arbitrage basis, 46% versus 26% – that's a big Delta. So if you're Apple, and you're making Apple technology, Apple-related products in Vietnam, and you're importing at 46%, or you're making it in India at 26%, you're obviously going to double down on your India effort," he said.
Kapadia continued that Trump's latest tariff policies target corporate America, which opens the doors to which industries will move back to U.S. soil to avoid the tariffs. He pointed to "critical industries" such as semiconductor manufacturing, critical minerals, aluminum and steel manufacturing delivering large-scale investments in the U.S. both this year and next year, to increase capacity and production "out of necessity." He noted that Trump's customized reciprocal tariffs are not stackable with existing tariffs on certain industry imports, such as steel and aluminum.
"That's going to be the opportunity for the jobs to be created, for the investment to happen. Whereas on the multilateral kind of, 'Hey, here's our new kind of blended rate for these 60 odd countries,' that's just going to be finding more equity with a foreign direct investment from those countries," he said.
In America's Rust Belt, which stretches from Illinois to upstate New York, critical industries are ramping up production under the second Trump administration and locals are excited after decades of old industrial towns economically suffering, Ohio Republican Rep. Michael Rulli told Fox News Digital in an exclusive Zoom interview.
"They did a study by the Census Bureau in 1949, and they looked at the top 20 most influential cities that were prosperous in the United States. And I want you to think about some of these names on this [list]. They're names like Buffalo, Detroit, Cleveland, Youngstown, Allentown, Pittsburgh. That isn't the case anymore. For the 50 years after that, we saw both political parties celebrate putting jobs across in other countries," Rulli said.
Rulli reflected on 1977's "Black Monday" in Youngstown, Ohio, when steel manufacturer Campbell Works of Youngstown Sheet and Tube shuttered its doors and left thousands of workers unemployed in a chilling move that is still felt in the area today.
"We have Vallourec up in Youngstown, Ohio, that's making all the pipe that you use for fracking. And that's really exciting," Rulli said. "When you put energy first, it ties in with the whole Ohio six. We're gonna start building power plants, cracker plants. We're going to put America back on the map with energy. And it's all happening with this agenda that's going right in front of your eyes. And it starts with tariffs. Remember, we have to have a starting place for 'Art of the Deal.' And the president has put that bar very high. We have every ability to negotiate fair trade deals with these other countries right now."
The Ohio congressman said he toured Mingo Junction, Ohio, home to a JSW steel plant, and saw how the steel industry is coming back to life in the area after decades of dormancy.
"Two weeks ago, I spent several hours touring the entire steel mill and how incredible it was in Mingo Junction, Ohio, actually the birthplace of my grandma. So it was like sort of a full circle. We're bringing back steel in America. How about that? And they're re-looking at it. They're being very specific. It's almost like a boutique steel making process and they're expanding. It's really a great triumph," he said.
With jobs, Rulli argued, crime and addiction woes that have plagued the nation in recent years will fall, while generations of families that previously worked in the steel industry can carry on the tradition,
"This is Art of the Deal. In the 1950s, America was at its highest point ever. And what we've done since then is pretty much gutted the working-class, blue-collar. And I think the people in my district realized this, you know, when we see some of these tariffs that are put on the United States, that they put 60, 70, 80% tariffs on us, and we send our product to them with no tariffs. I think this is the greatest, basically, reconfiguration of trade that has ever happened in American history. And it's very exciting, especially if you go by the America First agenda," he said.
Fox News Digital's Diana Stancy contributed to this report.
House Republicans will finally begin this week with a full conference for the first time this year.
Newly minted representatives Randy Fine, R-Fla., and Jimmy Patronis, R-Fla., won special elections in the Sunshine State's 6th and 1st congressional districts, respectively, Tuesday night.
It's going to give some much-needed wiggle room to Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., who has been wrestling with a one- to two-vote margin since the 119th Congress began at the beginning of January.
In separate interviews with Fox News Digital this week, both lawmakers signaled they would be team players focused on advancing President Donald Trump's agenda, likely welcome news for House GOP leaders as they navigate a conference that's been deeply fractured on key issues like government spending.
"We do not need the team to fight within itself. Everyone's got to keep their eye on the prize," Fine said. "How do we make Speaker Johnson successful? And when we do that, how do we make President Trump successful? My focus is helping the team be successful. That will help my constituents. That will help Florida. That will help the country."
Patronis told Fox News Digital some of his top priorities would be the military and veterans and advancing Trump's policies on government efficiency, the border crisis and fentanyl trafficking.
The military is particularly important to Patronis, who until recently was the chief financial officer of Florida. The 1st Congressional District, which had been represented by former Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., maintains a heavy military presence in multiple branches of the armed forces.
Patronis pledged his office would be "doing everything we can" to help the military installations continue to "protect our nation."
On veterans' care, the new Florida congressman lauded Trump's first administration for backing reforms aimed at enabling veterans to seek care outside of VA hospitals but said it was "mothballed" under the Biden administration.
"It's really allowed those vets to seek services in their own community instead of traveling out of state," he said, pledging to work to get it back on track.
While he did not mention the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) specifically, Patronis signaled he aligned with its goals of transparency in federal spending.
"I'm a big believer that the citizens of the state of Florida spend their money better, a heck of a lot better, than Washington, D.C., does," Patronis said. "I like being a watchdog. … I like to ensure that that transparency is the norm, that we have, you know, a public that is informed and aware how their tax dollars are being used."
Fine, when asked about his agenda items, deferred largely to the president.
"The big agenda item for me is gonna make sure we get President Trump's agenda passed. Look, it's a narrow majority, and you have to support the team captain," Fine said.
He pointed out that Florida's Republican majority grew significantly during his tenure in both houses of the state legislature.
"It didn't get there overnight. It's because Republicans showed that we knew how to govern, and we hit singles and doubles and triples every day. And the voters rewarded us," Fine said. "The goal needs to be go from a five-vote majority to a 15, to a 25, to a 35, and you do that by governing and putting points on the board every day."
Both Republicans made clear, however, that their principles would follow them from the Sunshine State to the nation's capital.
Patronis said he was looking at starting work on insurance reform, a critical issue in Florida, a state that regularly deals with natural disasters.
"When you've got high insurance rates, when you've got inflation the way it is, home ownership is more of a dream than a reality," he said. "We rolled out several solutions when I was CFO."
Among the initiatives he mentioned was legislation to create a tax-free savings account to help homeowners during national disasters, a bill that was introduced by Rep. Laurel Lee, R-Fla., a fellow delegation member.
Fine maintained to Fox News Digital that he "can't give carte blanche" guarantees to House GOP leaders but said he foresaw few if any future points of contention.
"I was the only Republican Jew in the Florida legislature for eight years. I got this crazy nickname, the 'Hebrew hammer,' which I finally decided to embrace," Fine said. "If, God forbid, they were going to do something that stood in the way of [fighting antisemitism], that would be an example where my principals would override, and I wouldn't be able to be with the team."
Billionaire Elon Musk says he hopes the U.S. and Europe can develop their economic relationship toward eliminating the need for tariffs.
Musk made the statement during a video interview with Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini on Saturday.The billionaire says he has advised President Donald Trump to bolster the relationship with European countries.
"At the end of the day, I hope it's agreed that both Europe and the United States should move ideally, in my view, to a zero-tariff situation, effectively creating a free trade zone between Europe and North America," Musk said.
He went on to say he would like to see greater freedom of movement between Europe and the U.S. as well.
"If people wish to work in Europe or wish to work in North America, they should be allowed to do so in my view," Musk said, adding that this "has certainly been my advice to the president."
Musk's statement comes less than a week after Trump unveiled sweeping tariffs against virtually every major country on earth.
The initial 10% "baseline" tariff took effect at U.S. seaports, airports and customs warehouses on Thursday. Higher taxes on goods from 57 larger trading partners are set to start later this week.
European Union imports will face a 20% tariff, while Chinese goods will be hit with a 34% tariff, bringing Trump's total new taxes on China up to 54%.
World leaders in Europe and elsewhere have vowed to retaliate against the tariffs. China, hit harder than any other nation, promised to "take countermeasures to safeguard its own rights and interests" last week.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says Europeans "feel let down by our oldest ally."
"Uncertainty will spiral and trigger the rise of further protectionism. The consequences will be dire for millions of people around the globe," she said.
Fox News' Landon Mion and Reuters contributed to this report.
A district court judge awarded $6.6 million combined to four whistleblowers who sued Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on claims he fired them in retaliation for reporting him to the FBI.
Blake Brickman, David Maxwell, Mark Penley and Ryan Vassar notified Paxton and his office on Oct. 1, 2020, that they had reported him to the FBI for allegedly abusing his office. The four were all fired by mid-November.
Travis County Judge Catherine Mauzy ruled Friday that by a "preponderance of the evidence," the whistleblowers proved liability, damages and attorney's fees in their complaint against the attorney general's office.
The judgment says the former aides made their reports to federal law enforcement "in good faith" and that Paxton's office did not dispute any claims or damages in the lawsuit.
"Because the Office of the Attorney General violated the Texas Whistleblower Act by firing and otherwise retaliating against the plaintiff for in good faith reporting violations of law by Ken Paxton and OAG, the court hereby renders judgment for plaintiffs," Mauzy wrote in her judgment.
The court found that the four former aides of the attorney general were fired in retaliation for reporting allegations that he was using his office to accept bribes from Austin real estate developer and political donor Nate Paul, who employed a woman with whom Paxton was having an extramarital affair.
Paxton has denied allegations that he accepted bribes or misused his office to help Paul.
"It should shock all Texans that their chief law enforcement officer, Ken Paxton, admitted to violating the law, but that is exactly what happened in this case," Tom Nesbitt, an attorney representing Brickman, and TJ Turner, an attorney representing Maxwell, said in a joint statement.
Paxton said in a statement that the judge's ruling is "ridiculous" and "not based on the facts or the law." He said his office plans to appeal the ruling.
The attorney general was probed by federal authorities after eight employees reported his office to the FBI in 2020 for bribery allegations. He agreed to settle the lawsuit for $3.3 million that would be paid by the legislature, but the state House rejected his request and conducted its own investigation.
In November, the state Supreme Court overturned a lower-court ruling that would have required Paxton to testify in the lawsuit.
The U.S. Justice Department declined to pursue its investigation into Paxton in the final weeks of the Biden administration, according to The Associated Press.
The Trump administration has placed a Justice Department (DOJ) lawyer on leave for not "zealously advocating" its position in the case involving a Salvadoran man living in Maryland who was mistakenly deported last month.
Attorney General Pam Bondi's office placed Erez Reuveni, who argued for the government, in Friday’s hearing in which a judge ruled Maryland father Kilmar Abrego Garcia must be returned to the U.S. by Monday, on indefinite paid leave, Fox News has learned.
"At my direction, every Department of Justice attorney is required to zealously advocate on behalf of the United States," Bondi told the New York Times in a statement. "Any attorney who fails to abide by this direction will face consequences."
Fox News Digital has reached out to the DOJ for comment.
Reuveni on Friday admitted that Garcia’s deportation was a mistake, according to the New York Times.
On Saturday, the Trump administration argued in an emergency appeal that U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis can’t force the administration to return Garcia to the U.S.
Xinis on Friday ruled that the government must make arrangements to have Garcia back in the U.S. before Monday at midnight.
The Saturday emergency appeal seeks to temporarily stay Xinis’ decision until the government has time to properly appeal the ruling.
"Late Friday afternoon, a federal district judge ordered the United States to force El Salvador to send one of its citizens – a member of MS-13, no less – back to the United States by midnight on Monday. If there was ever a case for an emergency stay pending appeal, this would be it," the government wrote in the emergency appeal reviewed by Fox News Digital.
The government also argued that it "does not have control over" Garcia now that he is in El Salvador.
"Nevertheless, the court’s injunction commands that Defendants accomplish, somehow, Abrego Garcia’s return to the United States in give or take one business day," the appeal said, calling it "indefensible."
The filing said that the "lacked the power" to require the government "on the clock, to try to force a foreign country to take a discrete action."
It added, "Abrego Garcia has been found to be a member of a designated Foreign 3 Terrorist Organization, MS-13. Given that status, he has no legal right or basis to be in the United States at all."
Xinis on Friday said that the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's March 15th expulsion of Garcia violated the Administrative Procedures Act, since it occurred without a judicial proceeding.
The Trump administration has acknowledged Garcia's removal was an "administrative error," but has also defended it, alleging that Garcia has ties to MS-13.
"This individual is an illegal criminal who broke our nation’s immigration laws. He is a leader in the brutal MS-13 gang, and he is involved in human trafficking," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a briefing on Tuesday.
"And now MS-13 is a designated foreign terrorist organization. Foreign terrorists have no legal protections in the United States of America. And this administration is going to continue to deport foreign terrorists and illegal criminals from our nation’s interior," she added.
An immigration judge five years ago said Garcia, who came to the U.S. illegally in 2011 and asked for asylum, could not be deported to his home country, over concerns he would become a victim of local El Salvador gang members.
His request for asylum was denied, but he was given protection from deportation and ICE didn't appeal the decision.
Garcia's wife, Jennifer Vasquez Sura, who is a U.S. citizen, has vigorously campaigned for his return.
Garcia had been working as a sheet metal apprentice in Maryland and was arrested in an IKEA parking lot on March 12 while his 5-year-old son was in the car.
His lawyers have argued the man had a Department of Homeland Security permit to work in the country, and strongly deny any gang affiliations. They also say that the government has given little evidence to back up its claim.
There was no indication how the government would comply, since he is incarcerated in an El Salvador prison under that government's custody.
Fox News' Cameron Arcand and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Saturday announced the U.S. will revoke visas held by South Sudanese passport holders will be revoked, and no others will be issued, effective immediately.
Rubio attributed the change to "the failure of South Sudan's transitional government to accept the return of its repatriated citizens in a timely manner," according to a statement posted on X.
The U.S. Department of State on Saturday wrote in a statement that it is time for the Transitional Government of South Sudan to "stop taking advantage" of the U.S.
"Enforcing our nation’s immigration laws is critically important to the national security and public safety of the United States," according to the statement. "Every country must accept the return of its citizens in a timely manner when another country, including the United States, seeks to remove them. "
The department said it "will be prepared to review these actions when South Sudan is in full cooperation."
The East African country is currently on the verge of civil war, with escalating armed conflict, mass displacement and severe food insecurity.
The U.S. Embassy in Khartoum suspended its operations, to include visa, passport, and other routine consular services, on April 22, 2023.
The move comes after the Trump administration in February ended a deportation shield for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans in the U.S.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said it would revoke the statuses of more than 300,000 nationals protected by Temporary Protected Status (TPS).
The Trump administration has deported more than 100,000 illegal migrants since taking office, according to a New York Post report citing a DHS official.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation for the Republic of South Sudan did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.
United Nations South Sudan declined Fox News Digital's request for comment.
Fox News Digital's Adam Shaw contributed to this report.
