{"id":1704,"date":"2025-08-19T16:43:43","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T16:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.logicalware.net\/?p=1704"},"modified":"2025-08-19T19:18:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T19:18:45","slug":"greene-rips-state-department-move-to-halt-visitor-visas-for-people-from-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.logicalware.net\/index.php\/2025\/08\/19\/greene-rips-state-department-move-to-halt-visitor-visas-for-people-from-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"Greene rips State Department move to halt visitor visas for people from Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Tuesday ripped the State Department for halting visitor visas<\/a> for people from Gaza.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to be the America that allows war torn children to come here for life-saving surgeries and the America that never releases a foreign child sex predator that our great LEO\u2019s caught,\u201d Greene wrote in a post on social platform X<\/a>, referring to Tom Artiom Alexandrovich, an official in Israel\u2019s National Cyber Directorate who was arrested Monday<\/a> in connection to a Las Vegas child sex trafficking sting.<\/p>\n

“Would it be antisemitic to drag [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu\u2019s Cyber Executive Director back and prosecute this pos to the full extent of the law and at the same time let Palestinian kids who had their limbs and bodies blown apart receive surgeries in America?” she added.<\/p>\n

Among the groups halted from obtaining U.S. visas last Saturday were those seeking temporary medical-humanitarian visas for children. <\/p>\n

Greene, in recent weeks, has joined a chorus<\/a> of other lawmakers who have railed against<\/a> the Trump administration and Israel over the humanitarian conditions in Gaza.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not saying bring in refugees or use tax payer dollars, not at all, but when did America\u2019s heart grow so cold to refuse innocent children privately funded surgeries and then they return home after they recover?\u201d she added in her Tuesday social media post. <\/p>\n

\u201cWouldn\u2019t we allow Israeli children if they were the ones needing surgery? Or war torn children from any other country?\u201d she continued. <\/p>\n

Secretary of State Marco Rubio defended the Trump administration\u2019s decision to halt visa processing<\/a> for visitors from Gaza during a Sunday appearance on CBS News\u2019s \u201cFace the Nation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFirst of all, it\u2019s not just kids,\u201d Rubio said. \u201cIt\u2019s a bunch of adults that are accompanying them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSecond, we had outreach from multiple congressional offices asking questions about it, and so we\u2019re going to reevaluate how those visas are being granted,\u201d he continued. \u201cNot just to the children, but how those visas are being granted to the people who are accompanying them and, by the way, to some of the organizations that are facilitating it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rubio suggested some of the visitors had ties to Hamas.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd so we are not going to be in partnership with groups that are friendly with Hamas. So we need to \u2014 we\u2019re going to pause those visas,\u201d pending further review, he told host Margaret Brennan.<\/p>\n

But Greene pushed back on the administration’s movie, invoking religious rhetoric.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know God does not discriminate in his love for children. Why would we?\u201d she asked on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Tuesday ripped the State Department for halting visitor visas for people from Gaza. \u201cWe need to be the America that allows war torn children<\/p>\n

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