AP: Trump's wife modeled in US prior to getting work visa

[RandySF]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Melania Trump was paid for 10 modeling jobs in the United States worth $20,056 that occurred in the seven weeks before she had legal permission to work in the country, according to detailed accounting ledgers, contracts and related documents from 20 years ago provided to The Associated Press.

The details of Mrs. Trump's early paid modeling work in the U.S. emerged in the final days of a bitter presidential campaign in which her husband, Donald Trump, has taken a hard line on immigration laws and those who violate them. Trump has proposed broader use of the government's E-verify system allowing employers to check whether job applicants are authorized to work. He has noted that federal law prohibits illegally paying immigrants.

Mrs. Trump, who received a green card in March 2001 and became a U.S. citizen in 2006, has always maintained that she arrived in the country legally and never violated the terms of her immigration status. During the presidential campaign, she has cited her story to defend her husband's hard line on immigration.

The wife of the GOP presidential nominee, who sometimes worked as a model under just her first name, has said through an attorney that she first came to the U.S. from Slovenia on Aug. 27, 1996, on a B1/B2 visitor visa and then obtained an H-1B work visa on Oct. 18, 1996.


https://apnews.com/37dc7aef0ce44077930b7436be7bfd0d

[MyNameIsKhan]

1. Surprise Surprise wow, this will hit main stream right away....

[TrekLuver]

2. It will because it's from the AP?

[MyNameIsKhan]

4. No... Immigration is major policy platform of Trump and his own wife broke laws

[tarheelsunc]

10. She's what the deplorables will see as a "good" immigrant though. eom

[MyNameIsKhan]

12. Well, deplorable are ready to vote for sexual predator so they will vote for his illegal immigrant

wife... but how can we have illegal immigrant as first lady?

[TrekLuver]

11. Unless there is some new info in here this has already been discussed and it

didn't go anywhere.

[alcibiades_mystery]

3. Who cares?

This is piddling.

[MyNameIsKhan]

6. I think this will hit mainstream... lets see tomorrow and HRC surrogates will be talking about his

You are willfully breaking USA immigration laws, Campaign must address this.

[bluestateguy]

15. I think the AP is pretty mainstream

How MUCH play it gets is something else.

[shenmue]

5. Buh bye

[tarheelsunc]

9. I thought someone discovered this many months ago and it gained no traction? eom

[MyNameIsKhan]

13. There was no proof but now AP has ledgers that she was paid 20k on B1/B2 visa...

Both visa does not allow to work or make money.

[texasleo]

14. LOCK HER UP

[wishstar]

16. Just more confirmation she lies with impunity just like her husband

[NoGoodNamesLeft]

17. Technically, she could be deported...

"The wife of the GOP presidential nominee, who sometimes worked as a model under just her first name, has said through an attorney that she first came to the U.S. from Slovenia on Aug. 27, 1996, on a B1/B2 visitor visa and then obtained an H-1B work visa on Oct. 18, 1996.

The documents obtained by the AP show she was paid for 10 modeling assignments between Sept. 10 and Oct. 15, during a time when her visa allowed her generally to be in the U.S. and look for work but not perform paid work in the country. The documents examined by the AP indicate that the modeling assignments would have been outside the bounds of her visa.

It is highly unlikely that the discovery will affect the citizenship status of Mrs. Trump. The government can seek to revoke the U.S. citizenship of immigrants after the fact in cases when it determines a person willfully misrepresented or concealed facts relevant to his naturalization. But the government effectively does this in only the most egregious cases, such as instances involving terrorism or war crimes."

[MyNameIsKhan]

24. but she willfully lied on green card and N-400, she is in perjury...

[0rganism]

18. a month ago, this would have meant something

now it's just another bit of evidence for Trumpolini's well-established lying and hypocrisy, about which no one gives 2 shits anymore

[Awsi Dooger]

23. Exactly

It is meaningless now

[Grassy Knoll]

19. Lawrence O D Covering It On MSNBC...

[Tom Rivers]

20. lock her up. deport melania.

guilty or not guilty?

[CajunBlazer]

21. K&R

[TrekLuver]

22. To all you Debbie Downers...the point is that yeah it may not matter with switching votes but

it matters with getting his name being talked about negatively again in the press. Hopefully this and the Spewliani story will be focal points this weekend and not emails....what emails? I haven't heard much about emails today!!

[Foggyhill]

26. This ties back to the modelling agency story too

Were the exact same allegation existed

I always wondered why nobody tied those two stories together and investigated weather both cases were in fact the law being broken

While this makes little difference for the deplorable, it makes a big difference for the media narrative

Especially if trump knew about i, which is highly probable

[radius777]

27. the modeling agency story imo was the big story

that im surprised was never dumped out there, as it showed clear abuse of women, worker exploitation, and breaking of immigration laws.

as you said, the melania immigration story ties into somehow, just the evidence hasn't turned up... yet. the dailymail was sued by Trump for hinting at such connections.

and it wont change the deplorables vote, but it does change the media narratives and reveals the Trumps for their own lawbreaking hypocrisy.