President Donald Trump's parents-in-law have become US citizens in a private ceremony.Because chain migration is OK when they're Trump's family? When they're white folk?
Viktor and Amalija Knavs, Melania Trump's Slovenian-born parents, took the oath of citizenship in New York on Thursday, their lawyer confirmed.
He said the pair had been living in the US on green cards sponsored by Mrs Trump.
There's still some question as to how Trump finagled an "Einstein visa" for Melania, as a non-super model hardly met the criteria for an EB-1 visa.
But the rules were bendable when a member of the oligarchy wanted to sneak in his then-mistress.
The whole concept of "chain migration" is pretty much a myth, so the President opened a weird fake news can of worms that has, well, turned on him ("The worm has turned" is a phrase, right?).
ReplyDeleteEspecially when you're dealing with the countries from which we get immigrants (Mexico, the Philippines, India, etc), it takes nearly three decades to become a citizen when you have a child or aunt apply for you. It's based on entry date. When I was taking immigration law in 1999, the entry date to become a citizen if you were sponsored by a relative from Mexico was 1972.
This means that if you come here and give birth, the child wouldn't be able to apply for you to become a citizen until they turned 18, and then it would take an additional 27 years to get your citizenship.
Trump doesn't even understand what he's mad about and, as you point out here, he is a hypocrite to boot.