Melania Trump's parents are legal permanent residents, raising questions about whether...

[DonViejo]

Source: The Washington Post



Melania Trump’s parents are legal permanent residents, raising questions about whether they relied on ‘chain migration’

By Carol D. Leonnig, David Nakamura and Nick Miroff February 21 at 12:39 PM

The parents of first lady Melania Trump have become legal permanent residents of the United States and are close to obtaining their citizenship, according to people familiar with their status, but their attorney declined to say how or when the couple gained their green cards.

Immigration experts said Viktor and Amalija Knavs very likely relied on a family reunification process that President Trump has derided as “chain migration” and proposed ending in such cases.

The Knavses, formerly of Slovenia, are living in the country on green cards, according to Michael Wildes, a New York-based immigration attorney who represents the first lady and her family.

“I can confirm that Mrs. Trump’s parents are both lawfully admitted to the United States as permanent residents,” he said. “The family, as they are not part of the administration, has asked that their privacy be respected so I will not comment further on this matter.”

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/melania-trumps-parents-are-legal-permanent-residents-raising-questions-about-whether-they-relied-on-chain-migration/2018/02/21/3b573df8-1687-11e8-8b08-027a6ccb38eb_story.html

[njhoneybadger]

1. Is there any freaking thing that he accuses other people of that isn't "PROJECTION"

[fierywoman]

9. I haven't seen anything!

[jmowreader]

2. Trumps agent handlers have an iffy immigration history?

Say it ain’t so, Joe!

[UpInArms]

3. I grow so weary of the daily hypocrisy

🤦🏽?♀️🤦🏽?♀️🤦🏽?♀️

[PatSeg]

4. When it is "white" immigrants,

it is called "family reunification". All others = "chain migration".

[dalton99a]

13. +1

[djacq]

5. Mrs Orange Clown is a perfect example of Family Unification

But her adulterous husband wants to close the door behind them.

[lagomorph777]

12. Given her own questionable (fraudulent?) status, the whole family could be deportable.

Wait... does that make Barron a Dreamer?

[alwaysinasnit]

6. Maybe it would be better to look at tRump's mother's latest entry into the US.

Per Snopes

https://www.snopes.com/donald-trumps-mother-illegal-immigrant/


By at least 1933, Macleod had officially declared her intent to live in the United States, as attested to in the manifest of a voyage that appeared to be a return trip to her childhood home, in which the box for “intended country of future residence” was listed as “foreign” (i.e., outside of the United Kingdom):

Based on the above excerpt, if Ms. Macleod entered the US on a visitor's visa with the intent to remain permanently here, then she likely would have committed visa fraud and would be considered inadmissible to adjust her legal status through marriage to a US citizen (tRump's father).

[Sancho]

7. So tRUmp's wife, mother, and in-laws all broke the immigration rules?

[alwaysinasnit]

8. Possible

At the very least there are likely some irregularities in their (tRump's family) immigration history, including I believe, that tRump's grandfather is linked to a forged citizenship certificate.

[FakeNoose]

11. I think this used to be common for young unmarried women

They hoped to find a husband in the US, but they wanted to keep the door open to return to their native country in case it didn't work out. Often women from Great Britain and "favored status" countries were allowed in and they weren't strictly held to the letter of the law.

As the times changed (leading up to WWII) and more refugees poured in from Europe, they got stricter about it. I shrug my shoulders on this one because it wasn't that unusual for the time. You'd think Cheeto would have a little more compassion for immigrants since his own mother had the same experience.

[Princess Turandot]

10. Her older sister is here as well...

... She's named Ines but little is known about her. (She reportedly has an apartment in another Trump building in NY.)

She's on the left in this photo from 2005, in which Mrs. Trump actually looks happy:

[Hermit-The-Prog]

14. TrumPutin once liked broken immigration

Former Models for Donald Trump’s Agency Say They Violated Immigration Rules and Worked Illegally

“It’s like modern-day slavery.”

James West Aug. 30, 2016

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/08/donald-trump-model-management-illegal-immigration/

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

15. But they're white

That makes it okay as far as the blotard is concerned

[Scarsdale]

16. They also belonged to the

Communist Party back home, is THAT alright? How do they afford to live at tRump Tower, and travel to Mar-A-Lago regularly? I hope Mueller has had their phones tapped. They certainly have done well for themselves by whoring out their daughter, eh?