Marco Rubio invoked founding principles, asserting rights come from God and all life is sacred. As secretary of state, he justified pausing temporary medical visas for a small number of Palestinian children from Gaza, mostly amputees and burn victims, who were to receive specialized urgent care funded by private donors through HEAL Palestine. The pause followed claims of evidence that some organizations involved in acquiring those visas have links to Hamas. The department described the pause as pending a full and thorough assessment. The pause will likely prevent many injured children from receiving care in the United States; Laura Loomer claims credit for prompting the action.
Rubio, now secretary of state, sat on Face the Nation on August 17 and attempted to justify his department's decision over the weekend to stop giving temporary medical visas to a small number of Palestinian children from Gaza (mostly amputees and burn victims) coming into the States to receive specialized and urgent care paid for by the generosity of private donors-that is, free to the U.S. taxpayer-primarily through one non-profit organization called HEAL Palestine.
Rubio said he had "evidence that some of the organizations bragging about, and involved in, acquiring these visas have strong links to terrorist groups like Hamas." "And so we are not going to be in partnership with groups that are friendly with Hamas. So we need to-we're going to pause those visas" pending a full and thorough assessment of them, he added.
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