A day after conservative activist Laura Loomer posted videos on social media of children from Gaza arriving in the U.S. for medical treatment and questioning how they got visas, the State Department said it was halting all visitor visas for people from Gaza pending a review.

Laura Loomer, the far-right provocateur and conspiracy theorist who has described herself as a “proud Islamophobe,” has proven to have particular sway with President Donald Trump. The latest example came on Saturday,

Loomer misrepresented the children, including amputees arriving to get prosthetic legs, as “Islamic invaders from an Islamic terror hot zone”

Loomer seized on a Trump administration policy shift after the State Dept suspended visitor visas for people from Gaza following her one-day online crusade. The post Laura Loomer Takes Victory Lap for State Department’s Gaza Visa Policy Freeze — After Leading MAGA Pile-On first appeared on Mediaite.

Trump ultra-loyalist and far-right activist Laura Loomer is popping the virtual champagne on social media as she claims credit for a snap State Department decision to freeze visitor visas for Palestinians from Gaza.

The Trump administration is putting at least a temporary stop to visa entries from Gaza after a number of Palestinian children injured in the Israel-Hamas war were allowed to enter