If you’ve come to the United States from a foreign country and you’ve been blabbing anywhere and everywhere that the state of Israel is committing acts of genocide against Palestine and you hail Hamas as freedom-fighting heroes, you should promptly be sent back home.
That’s the point Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) made when he sent a letter to the State Department asking it to do a review and work out details that would lead to revoking the visas of those supporting Hamas terrorist activity. When the State Department responded to the letter, a whole month later, it actually confessed to possessing the authority to do just that.
“As you are aware, the Secretary of State designated Hamas as a Foreign Terrorist Organization under section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act on October 8, 1997,” the State Department said in its response to Rubio. “Our first priority when adjudicating visa applications is to ensure applicants do not pose a security risk to the United States. Every prospective traveler to the United States undergoes extensive security screening. This screening draws on information from the full range of U.S. government agencies,…
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