cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/35497898

August 31, 2025 ~4:20pm

The Trump administration has enacted a sweeping suspension of approvals of almost all types of visitor visas for Palestinian passport holders, according to American officials.

The new policy goes beyond the restrictions announced by U.S. officials recently on visitor visas for Palestinians from Gaza. Last week, the State Department also said it would not issue visas to Palestinian officials to attend the annual U.N. General Assembly in New York next month.

  • Mereo@piefed.ca
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    The United Nations no longer deserves to be hosted in the United States. As the country becomes more authoritarian, the country has lost that right. It’s time to move it elsewhere.

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      Should nevet been. The usa been terrible since the end of world war 2 bombing ton of countries and doing coups on many others

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      You’re idealizing. The beltway has been racist forever so much so that the government had to pay businesses to serve foreign diplomats.