So, the Associated Press has verified that Melania Trump entered the country in 1996 on a visa that did not permit her to work. She then immediately went to work, taking modeling jobs from actual U.S. citizens and foreigners who had actual work visas. This is precisely what her husband has been railing against.
I don’t personally care that she came here to work. It appears from the records that a modeling agency paid for a car service to pick her up at the airport. That’s great as far I am concerned. She had a plan. She had a job lined up. She quickly obtained a work visa. She’s a citizen now. I don’t see a problem, except for that wee thing about this being “a nation of laws.” I mean, either we have borders or we don’t, am I right?
And, I mean, there’s all kinds of criminals who came here from Eastern Europe after the Cold War ended. Some, I am sure, were good people. But it’s not like Slovenia was sending us their best, if you know what I mean. They didn’t send the nice married couple down the street.
You get the point. Trump has blasted Mexicans and Mexico but he hasn’t said a word about Slovenians and Slovenia. Why is that?
Let’s go back into the Wayback Machine all the way to August 9th:
At a rally Tuesday evening in North Carolina, Trump said his wife, Melania, came into the country legally.
“She has got it so documented,” Trump said, adding she will hold a news conference over the next few weeks to address the issue.
“They said, ‘Melania Trump may have come into our country illegally’ and ‘how would that be for Donald Trump?’” Trump said of the media, after questions arose about when and how Melania Trump received her green card.
“Here’s the only problem, she came in totally legally,” he continued.
“I said to her: ‘No no, let is simmer for a little while. Let them go wild, let it simmer, and then let’s have a little news conference.’”
Trump spox Hope Hicks confirms @MELANIATRUMP will hold news conference on immigration questions. No timing details https://t.co/qGqDIbHRQf
— Jeremy Diamond (@JDiamond1) August 9, 2016
That news conference never happened, perhaps because they would have only compounded the problem by elaborating on their lies.
I don’t want to pick on Melania. I really don’t. But the bottom line is that she’s married to a guy who thinks it’s an absolute outrage and a threat to law and order and national security for people to enter the country under false pretenses, work illegally, and then gain citizenship for themselves or their children. By that logic, she should self-deport before she’s rounded up by one of Trump’s ICE deportation officers.
She looks passably white though, so I don’t think this will happen.