Trump admin poised to block visas for Palestinian terrorists appearing at conference in Detroit

(Free Beacon) The Trump administration is preparing to block visas for Palestinian terrorists slated to appear later this month at the People’s Conference for Palestine in Detroit, Michigan, which will feature a number of radical Palestinian activists, a senior State Department official told the Washington Free Beacon.

“Given the public invite lists seem to include a number of terrorist sympathizers, we are going through and ensuring all international speakers slated to attend the conference are being placed on a ‘look out’ status for visa applications, so we are alerted if a request is submitted and can ensure they are appropriately processed,” the senior official told the Free Beacon.

While the official would not identify which of the nearly 40 speakers would be assigned special “look out” status, some are Palestinians who have spent years behind bars in Israel for conspiring to kill Jews.

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