Florida Sen. Marco Rubio is requesting that the Biden administration cancel visas for foreign nationals who support Hamas terrorists' attack on Israel.
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, a Republican, is asking President Biden to rescind visas for foreign nationals who defend or support Hamas amid the terror group's largest attack on Israel in decades. More than 3,200 people have been killed in the war since Hamas launched its attack last week, leading to retaliatory action from Israeli forces. Thousands more have been wounded, and many others have been taken hostage by Hamas and raped, tortured and murdered. The U.S.
Rubio's release says some people responsible for organizing and participating in the demonstrations across the U.S. supporting Hamas are in the country on visas.
The Harvard Palestine Solidarity Groups, comprised of about 30 Harvard student groups, wrote in a statement shortly after the attack, 'We, the undersigned student organizations, hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence.' The statement was later deleted after several of the groups withdrew their names amid backlash and after some CEOs demanded the university release the names of the students who signed the statement.
Hamas was designated as a foreign terrorist organization in 1997 by the State Department’s Bureau of Counterterrorism. Other GOP lawmakers calling for the U.S. to not accept refugees from Gaza include Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Arizona Rep. Andy Biggs. 'I don't know what Biden's gonna do, but we cannot accept people from Gaza into this country as refugees,' DeSantis said during a campaign stop in Iowa. 'I am not going to do that.
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