This is intentionally cruel, John.
The U.S. Department of State just halted all visitor visas for people from Gaza, which have been overwhelmingly medical-humanitarian visas used by child amputees and other sick or injured Palestinians seeking care in the United States.
This is just the latest move Donald Trump and his Secretary of State Marco Rubio have taken to continue enabling Israel’s genocide of Palestinians while silencing and persecuting anyone trying to help stop it and save lives.
After attacking humanitarian organizations, student activists, and human rights advocates, they’re now denying sick and wounded children access to life-saving medical treatment.
And it comes after MAGA influencer Laura Loomer spread the racist, Islamophobic lie that Palestinian refugees are coming into the United States and threatening national security.
Why are our immigration and humanitarian policies being dictated by a right-wing activist who has self-described herself as a "pro-white nationalist" and a "proud Islamophobe"?
The Palestine Children’s Relief Fund says this policy will “have a devastating and irreversible impact.” We must speak out and demand that the State Department reverse it.
In solidarity,
Justice Democrats