The Trump administration announced Saturday that it was halting visitor visas for people from Gaza, including those used for children to receive urgent medical treatment in the United States.
The State Department said in a statement posted on X that it was stopping all visitor visas while it conducts “a full and thorough review of the process and procedures” used to approve “a small number of temporary medical-humanitarian visas in recent days.”
The department did not immediately respond to questions on how long its review is expected to take or how many visitor visas it has issued recently.
The move comes after far-right activist Laura Loomer criticized the visa program in recent days, describing it as a “national security threat” in a social media post.
On Friday, Loomer shared a vid