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BumRushDaShow

(129,047 posts) Mon Mar 25, 2024, 08:15 PM Mar 25

Records confirm Trump's mother-in-law came to U.S. through process he derided

Source: Washington Post

March 25, 2024 at 7:58 p.m. EDT

Melania Trump sponsored her mother to immigrate to the United States through a family-based process that former president Donald Trump aggressively sought to end, according to federal immigration records released Monday.

The records detail for the first time the full path that the former first lady’s mother, Amalija Knavs, followed from Slovenia to the United States — and how the Trump administration’s policies would have made that far more difficult for others. Knavs died in January at age 78.

Donald Trump is the likely Republican candidate for president in the 2024 race against President Biden, a Democrat. The Trump campaign declined to comment through a spokeswoman. Melania Trump used a legal pathway that her husband and his top advisers had repeatedly disparaged as “chain migration,” the right of U.S. citizens to bring their parents to the United States.

Federal law since 1965 has said U.S. citizens may apply to bring minor children and parents to join them in the United States without having to wait a long time for a visa. Citizens may sponsor siblings and adult children, but they typically wait longer for visas. During his presidency, Donald Trump endorsed a bill called the RAISE Act that would have limited priority sponsorship to the spouses and minor children of U.S. citizens, taking parents off the fast-track list.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2024/03/25/trump-melania-parents-chain-migration/

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Records confirm Trump's mother-in-law came to U.S. through process he derided (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Mar 25 OP

Time for another campaign ad! Blue Owl Mar 25 #1

Figures Rebl2 Mar 25 #2

The hypocrisy is mind blowing. BigmanPigman Mar 26 #3

yeah, my first thought was a very sarcastic "well if people find out he's a hypocrit they might not vote for him" prodigitalson Mar 26 #10

Anyone surprised? elleng Mar 26 #4

your link has a paywall SouthBayDem Mar 26 #5

I think yours is a gift link BumRushDaShow Mar 26 #9

Old news NanaCat Mar 26 #6

It would have been nice Pototan Mar 26 #7

45 called it chain migration! LittleGirl Mar 26 #8

That's How My GF's Family Came Here Deep State Witch Mar 26 #11

Blue Owl

(50,383 posts)

1. Time for another campaign ad!

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Mon Mar 25, 2024, 08:26 PM

Mar 25

"...If tRump's own immigration policies were in place 60 years ago, he would have never been an American citizen or its 45th president...."

Then again that might be a selling point for the policy....

Rebl2

(13,514 posts)

2. Figures

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Mon Mar 25, 2024, 08:38 PM

Mar 25

BigmanPigman

(51,594 posts)

3. The hypocrisy is mind blowing.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Tue Mar 26, 2024, 01:15 AM

Mar 26

And his cult sucks it in with glee. The purposely ignorant morons will never wake up. They are permanently brainwashed at this point. There is no hope for them.

prodigitalson

(2,422 posts)

10. yeah, my first thought was a very sarcastic "well if people find out he's a hypocrit they might not vote for him"

Reply to BigmanPigman (Reply #3)

Tue Mar 26, 2024, 02:44 PM

Mar 26

there are people who will vote for him no matter what because cult....this election is about turning out our voters and getting the suburban white women who essentially are the only American swing voters left. and they were republicans before tfg

elleng

(130,918 posts)

4. Anyone surprised?

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Tue Mar 26, 2024, 01:28 AM

Mar 26

SouthBayDem

(32,025 posts)

5. your link has a paywall

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Tue Mar 26, 2024, 01:57 AM

Mar 26

Here's an actual non paywalled link.

BumRushDaShow

(129,047 posts)

9. I think yours is a gift link

Reply to SouthBayDem (Reply #5)

Tue Mar 26, 2024, 06:42 AM

Mar 26

The "share without using gift article" link offered within the article is the same as the OP link - https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2024/03/25/trump-melania-parents-chain-migration/

(I am subbed to them and they occasionally do the "free" articles)

NanaCat

(1,135 posts)

6. Old news

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Tue Mar 26, 2024, 03:00 AM

Mar 26

People have known for years that the Slovenian Gold Digger used 'chain migration' to get her parents in the country; all we have now is the full documentation about it.

She also made sure to pop out an anchor brat, in case the (OMFG LOL) 'Einstein' visa didn't pan out.

And speaking of the anchor brat: Gloves off with that one, because the anchor brat is an adult now. Turned 18 last week. Funny, I didn't see any acknowledgment of that from his negligent father.

Pototan

(1,129 posts)

7. It would have been nice

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Tue Mar 26, 2024, 03:29 AM

Mar 26

to expose this info before she died.

Not much use now. We'll look like the assholes.

LittleGirl

(8,287 posts)

8. 45 called it chain migration!

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Tue Mar 26, 2024, 06:16 AM

Mar 26

What a hypocrite! My hubby is an immigrant citizen now and when 45 called it that horrific chain migration, I got pissed. I posted on FB how I brought my spouse to the states and how the true name is Family Reunification!

Deep State Witch

(10,427 posts)

11. That's How My GF's Family Came Here

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Tue Mar 26, 2024, 06:10 PM

Mar 26

One of his half-sisters was already in the States after WWI. She sponsored my GF and two of her siblings. One of the brothers stayed in Romania, and was eventually conscripted by the Nazis into WWII.

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