The failed-state virus is affecting innocent people. This is because many Sierra Leoneans living in America will not make the journey to Sierra Leone to spend and enjoy the Christmas holiday in Sierra Leone. It is to happen because of the ongoing immigration brouhaha unfolding in the United States. (Photo: Kristi Noem, Secretary of Homeland Security).

President Donald Trump has recently ordered the Department of Homeland Security DHS to tighten the immigration screws on 19 countries around the world, including Sierra Leone, countries that the US government has dubbed as failed states.

This odd situation has forced many Sierra Leoneans in the US to think twice about visiting Sierra Leone this December for fear of the latest immigration problems that have the propensity to affect their journeys. Sources say many compatriots have already cancelled their trips to Freetown.

The Trump administration is determined to go ahead with immigration exercises to punish people they referred to as ‘aliens’. These problems for Sierra Leoneans in the US applying for Green Cards, or those about to upgrade their status to citizenship and others with US visas have escalated. (Photo: Maada Bio, posed with corrupt Electoral Commission chair Mohamed Konneh, left).

The best advice for the affected Sierra Leone residents in the States is not to travel out of the US this time. The adviser made it clear that they should not make holiday journeys out of the US at the moment because the probability is high that they will not be allowed to return to America.

The adviser added: “Please cancel your travel if you have made one, as you may not be allowed to re-enter America if you do so.” This stern warning has come at the right time to force many compatriots to change their holiday schedules to Sierra Leone or other countries outside the US.

Moreover, it has been advised that friends and loved ones in America and even in Sierra Leone must stop using the social media platforms because the US government is closely monitoring Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, TikTok, and others to track down Sierra Leoneans with visa issues.

The social media warning is important to prevent a self-destruct, especially, those who often use and post derogatory comments against the United States or worse against President Trump. The people affected by the US immigration issues have been advised to stop using social media for now, as the US is monitoring them. (Photo: President-Elect Dr Samura Kamara).

Meanwhile, workers at the US Embassy in Freetown who have visas in their passports have been dealt a hammer blow. Their visas have been revoked. If the US could do this to its own workers, it can do it to anyone else in the 19 blacklisted countries. This is bad news for Maada Bio and good news for electoral justice campaigners.

These are terrible times for Sierra Leoneans with US visas and those with Green Card applications. All these problems by the American government are caused by the undemocratic nature of Sierra Leone under the tyrant called Julius Maada Bio.

Sierra Leone is today a narco-state where the drug trade has grown from strength to strength and, sadly, has become the hub for drug lords and transhipment of illicit drugs like cocaine, Kush and tramadol, etc. Drug sales are now the norm rather than the exception.

The US government is unhappy with Maada Bio for promoting human rights violations and betrayal of democracy, among other issues. The tough economic, financial and travel embargoes of the US administration against Sierra Leone show that the US wants democracy restored in Sierra Leone without delay.

Presently, the 85 Tripartite recommendations are being implemented, albeit slowly, as they are being foot-dragged by Maada Bio’s illegal SLPP regime, which stole the June 24, 2023, elections from the real winner, Dr Samura Kamara, leader of the APC.

The people of Sierra Leone are obviously delighted that the US government has blacklisted Maada Bio and the other evil forces in the APC leadership and others who have connived to destroy Sierra Leone democratically, economically and politically.

The failed-state virus has affected many innocent people. Even those who normally support the broad daylight robbery of the 2023 elections are feeling the US Visa pinch. The only solution to free Sierra Leone from this mayhem is to complete the political transition, i.e. restore the President-elect, Dr Samura Kamara.

In a related development, it has been suggested in diplomatic circles that the United Kingdom UK and the European Union EU will follow suit by imposing stricter travel bans and visa bans on Sierra Leone. This is geared towards pressurising Maada Bio to hand over power peacefully.