Scores of House Democrats are pressing the Trump administration to allow Palestinian children injured in the Israel-Hamas war to seek emergency medical care in the United States.
Earlier in the month, the State Department abruptly halted the issuance of visas for people from Gaza, including medical-humanitarian visas, citing a need to examine the process that allowed some of those visitors to enter the U.S. The official pause, as posted on the social platform X, came a day after the right-wing activist Laura Loomer attacked the humanitarian visas as a threat to national security.
In a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, more than 140 House Democrats said the policy change was ill-conceived. They’re calling on the administration to reverse course and end the visa pause for the sake of providing injured children with “the medical care they desperately need.”
“It is wrong to prevent children who are caught in the middle of this horrific conflict from receiving lifesaving medical care,” the lawmakers wrote in the Aug. 25 letter, which was spearheaded by Reps. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich) and Kim Schrier (D-Wash.).
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