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UCmeNdc

(9,600 posts)
Thu Aug 4, 2016, 12:48 PM Aug 2016

Melania Trump strongly denies reports she broke immigration laws — but questions remain

More Lying by Donald Trump,

Playing the system........

The type of visa situation she is describing does not square with the Trump campaign’s assertion that she came to the U.S. on an HB-1 visa.

On Twitter, she posted a statement that said, in part, “In recent days there has been a lot of inaccurate reporting and misinformation concerning my immigration status back in 1996. Let me set the record straight: I have at all times been in full compliance with the immigration laws of this country. Period.”

She was responding to reports that modeling sessions she did when she arrived in the U.S. may have violated the terms of her short-term visa, which prohibited her from doing paid work during her stay.

The Trump campaign’s official story on Melania’s immigration to the U.S. says that she arrived here in 1996. However, a recently-unearthed trove of nude photos she posed for was shot in 1995. A biography of the former model by two Slovenian journalists backs up that contention, saying that she arrived in 1995.

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/melania-trump-strongly-denies-reports-she-broke-immigration-laws-but-questions-remain/

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Doodley

(9,107 posts)
3. Trump has employed illegal workers, an illegal wife, makes merchandise overseas, yet the whole
Thu Aug 4, 2016, 01:09 PM
Aug 2016

platform of his campaign is in opposition to all those things. When are his supporters going to open their eyes?

napkinz

(17,199 posts)
6. commentator on MSNBC says she may have committed a felony
Sat Aug 6, 2016, 10:28 AM
Aug 2016

Joy Reid discussing the issue now with a panel

KewlKat

(5,624 posts)
7. Morning Joy did a great job on this and
Sat Aug 6, 2016, 10:38 AM
Aug 2016

the story is NOT going away. Rumor last night was that Mrs Trump got the working visa due to "marriage" in 2001. Politico guest said other news agencies have multiple journalists working on this story.

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