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WASHINGTON - One day after conservative activist Laura Loomer shared videos on social media showing children from Gaza arriving in the U.S. for medical treatment and questioning how they obtained visas, the State Department announced it was suspending all visitor visas for Gazans pending a review.
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The State Department said Saturday the visas would be stopped while it looks into how "a small number of temporary medical-humanitarian visas" were issued in recent days. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Sunday told "Face the Nation" on CBS that the action came after "outreach from multiple congressional offices asking questions about it."
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Rubio said there were "just a small number" of the visas issued to children in need of medical aid but that