Melania's parents chain migrants?

[Joe]

It certainly seems like that way now that Melania's parents are now living in the US. Since Trumps demands that the US ban the parents of those here legally be banned from staying in the US Melania's parents status is now coming under scrutiny.

As for her parents, Viktor Knavs is a former member of the Yugoslav Communist Party who worked as the chauffeur for the mayor of his home town, Sevnica, and eventually became a successful car salesman. He was born in 1944, making him two years older than the president. Amilija Knavs was a pattern maker at a textile factory. They are now said to be retired.

According to various news reports, the Knavses have been living in the United States at least a year. Since Melania Trump moved into the White House, some reports have suggested they live there. Other reports have said they split their time between the Washington, D.C. area, Mar-a-Lago, Trump Tower and Bedminster, N.J. They apparently help take care of Barron Trump, the president’s 11-year-old child.

“The hyperinvolved Slovenian grandparents currently live with their daughter and grandson in the Trump Tower penthouse and spend most weekends with the Trumps at Mar-a-Lago, or at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey,” Politico reported in June.

The White House initially refused to comment on their immigration status. “I don’t comment on her parents, as they live private lives and are not part of the administration,” said Stephanie Grisham, spokeswoman for the first lady.

This is an interesting part.

They could be here on an IR-5 visa, meaning they are legal permanent residents because they are the parents of a U.S. citizen. Kevin Johnson, dean of the UC Davis Law School, believes this is the most likely option, even though the administration’s immigration proposal would limit family visas to spouses and minor children of U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents, ending “extended-family chain migration.”

“If I were advising Trump, Melania’s parents would be admitted as immigrants as the immediate relative of a United States citizen if they were planning on moving here permanently, especially given the fact that there is talk to eliminate this basis for immigration,” said Matthew L. Kolken, a Buffalo immigration attorney.

So are Melanias parents here now to head off a possible trump plan that would have them banned?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...elania-trumps-parents/?utm_term=.97e6d6f899a3

 

[panamaican]

Maybe Trump's plan to end chain migration is just a way to avoid his in-laws?

 

[Frank23]

Maybe Trump's plan to end chain migration is just a way to avoid his in-laws?

That would be funny.

 

[Bloodworth]

Totally different culture. Chain migration was fine up until recently.
Totally different people want to get in now

 

[weed]

Chain migration

is that how you got into our country?

 

[Joe]

update on it. Not only are they chain migrants but well on their way to be citizens

 

[Bloodworth]

is that how you got into our country?

Had ships sent. Had to pay and go through Ellis island where they were immunized.
Names engraved in stone .

 

[Seano]

It certainly seems like that way now that Melania's parents are now living in the US. Since Trumps demands that the US ban the parents of those here legally be banned from staying in the US Melania's parents status is now coming under scrutiny.

This is an interesting part.

So are Melanias parents here now to head off a possible trump plan that would have them banned?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...elania-trumps-parents/?utm_term=.97e6d6f899a3

The article says they don't really know what their legal situation is.

Sounds like "Dreamers" to me. Let em stay.

 

[Quequeg]

Everything is ok for Trump and family, for the rest of us, not so much

 

[Seano]

update on it. Not only are they chain migrants but well on their way to be citizens

So, in other words, they are doing it perfectly legally?
This is one of those times when people don't know who to be mad at.

 

[weed]

Had ships sent. Had to pay and go through Ellis island where they were immunized.
Names engraved in stone .

I'm not following?

 

[Joe]

Trump was on fox news bashing the same program melanias parents used to get in

Trump also discussed his progress with immigration legislation, saying that although Democrats have agreed to support a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, he “needs more” in order to finalze a comprehensive immigration plan.

“We need something to do with chain migration, we need something to do with visa lottery ... We want people to come in through merit,” he said.

 

[Striker Fox]

update on it. Not only are they chain migrants but well on their way to be citizens

They look like trouble imo.

And I'll bet Trump hasn't even vetted them.

 

[Madmick]

It certainly seems like that way now that Melania's parents are now living in the US. Since Trumps demands that the US ban the parents of those here legally be banned from staying in the US Melania's parents status is now coming under scrutiny.

This is an interesting part.

So are Melanias parents here now to head off a possible trump plan that would have them banned?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...elania-trumps-parents/?utm_term=.97e6d6f899a3

Either way, chain migration is bullshit, and not at all what the forefathers intended.

Leave it to Trump to play the selfish hypocrite again.

 

[Diamond Jim]

update on it. Not only are they chain migrants but well on their way to be citizens

They look like bad hombres.

 

[nac386]

So, in other words, they are doing it perfectly legally?
This is one of those times when people don't know who to be mad at.

I think you can figure it out.

 

[ShoelessRye]

The article says they don't really know what their legal situation is.

Sounds like "Dreamers" to me. Let em stay.

So you think they were brought to America as children?

 

[nac386]

Totally different culture. Chain migration was fine up until recently.
Totally different people want to get in now

Tell us about the wonderful culture in Slovenia, and compare it to whatever undesirable culture you are referencing here.

 

[Bloodworth]

Tell us about the wonderful culture in Slovenia, and compare it to whatever undesirable culture you are referencing here.

Does Slovenia have religions freedom, gay rights , women's rights, practice one women marriage , not multiple?

How the food and women?

 

[Bargey]

seems legal and not costing the taxpayer any extra money. Quite weird that this is an actual story.