Some may find this a minor thing to quibble about, but it takes on new importance with Donald Trump’s targeting of immigrants. Melania Trump would have been caught in this net back when she overstayed her visa to become a citizen. It is the height of hypocrisy that the First Lady is a naturalized citizen who illegally overstayed her visa, while Trumpkins rage about illegal immigrants, most of whom come in this way.
An AP investigation found she did not have proper work visas to work here. There was a press conference promised on this — in typical Trump fashion, never happened.
BERKELEY — A California state senator is calling on the White HOUSE to release documents related to Melania Trump's immigration, as part of a broader objection to President Donald Trump's immigration policies.
State Sen. Nancy Skinner of Berkeley, standing alongside Senate Pro Tem Kevin de Leon and Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon in the state Capitol last week, made the call as part of a protest against Trump’s executive order calling for limiting funds to “sanctuary cities.”
An AP investigation last November found Melania Trump lacked proper work visas when she was employed as a model after arriving in the U.S. from her native Slovenia more than two decades ago.
“No one in the Trump operation has released any of the documentation to indicate what was the circumstance, or whether she had full legal status,’’ Skinner told POLITICO California in an interview this week. “We only know they had a lawyer look at whatever papers she chose to give."
Skinner noted that Trump promised last August that his wife would hold a press conference on the matter before the election, but that never occurred. Skinner called the president's response "not adequate,’’ particularly in light of policies advocated by Trump that could put hundreds of thousands of undocumented people in California under the threat of deportation.
Other CA legislators are objecting, calling it “below the belt” and a “cheap, trolling tactic”. Sort of like the Birther conspiracy, which actually wasn’t true, except this one is.