Hillary’s conspiracy was on the right and Melania’s is on the left. Other than that, it’s the same argument.
Melania went further and bought into her husband’s argument that he couldn’t have harassed or assaulted a woman he deemed unattractive, even though such behavior is not about desire but power, control and hostility.
.. On the other hand, a political professional probably would not have encouraged Melania Trump to compare her husband to a small boy. “Sometimes I say I have two boys at home — I have my young son and I have my husband,” she said.
Weeks after campaign pledged answers, big questions about Melania Trump’s immigration status linger
Donald Trump’s immigration position is, at its heart, fairly simple. People in the country illegally will be subject to deportation if he is elected president, as he said in his speech this week in Arizona.
.. “Immigration law doesn’t exist for the purpose of keeping criminals out,” he said. “It exists to protect all aspects of American life — the work site, the welfare office, the education system and everything else.”
.. “The act of marrying a legal permanent resident of the United States doesn’t in and of itself do anything,” Leopold said.
.. A green card isn’t guaranteed to the new spouse, but it makes them eligible to begin the process.
.. that the coming in and going out, to anybody who’s been around this stuff, suggests that she was on a visitor visa, which doesn’t permit work,” he said. If Melania Trump came in on a visitor visa and began working over a short period of time, the government would assume that she entered the country fraudulently. If she told a customs official she was entering the United States as a visitor but was planning to work, that’s a material misrepresentation.
.. To get a work-related immigrant visa, Leopold added, Trump’s prospective employer would have had to prove that Trump filled a job duty that no American could fill — to show, in other words, that no other model in New York City would have done that shoot. Unless, of course, she had special skills — or a special degree.
.. You may remember that shortly before questions about Trump’s status arose, she suddenly took down her personal website. That change followedrevelations that Trump claimed to have a degree that biographers from Slovenia discovered she didn’t... We don’t know why Melania Trump claimed to have that degree — but having such degrees could bolster an argument for a work visa. If she told an employer she had degrees she didn’t to obtain a visa (and the employer wasn’t the wiser), Melania Trump is culpable… when you apply for citizenship, one of the questions they ask you is if have you ever sought to obtain immigration benefits from fraud. If you don’t ‘fess up and answer ‘yes’ if you’ve done that, now you have bad moral character and you’re ineligible for citizenship.” In the worst case, this could lead to denaturalization — loss of citizenship... In an interview with Univision, a former attorney for the Trump Organization said that Melania Trump obtained her green card in 2001 “based on marriage.” But she married Donald Trump in 2005 and has said that she wasn’t married previously.
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First I need to write out a pardon for Melania for her immigration violations before she has to clamber over the new wall in her stilettos. Who would have ever thought the problem with a nude photo portfolio of the next first lady would be a question about whether she had the right visa or not?
Gaps in Melania Trump’s immigration story raise questions
Instead, Trump’s description of her periodic renewals in Europe are more consistent with someone traveling on a B-1 Temporary Business Visitor or B-2 Tourist Visa, which typically last only up to six months and do not permit employment.
If someone were to enter the United States on one of those visas with the intention of working, it could constitute visa fraud
.. In order to avoid being sent back to Slovenia, she may have had to lie about the purpose of her trip.”
Visa fraud would call into question a green card application and subsequent citizenship application, said immigration lawyers — thus raising questions about Melania Trump’s legal status, even today, despite her marriage to a U.S. citizen.
.. Her personal website was taken down last month in the wake of reports that its biography section falsely credited her with earning a college degree.
.. Požar said he learned of these first jobs in America from two fashion agents, one in Italy and the other in Vienna, and that such trips abroad were common for Eastern European models but not “technically” legal.
.. To carry out the 1995 New York photo shoot legally, Trump would have required a working visa, likely an H-1B
.. Even Melania’s use of the H-1B program would stand in contrast to her husband’s position today. Trump, who has made his opposition to illegal immigration the centerpiece of his campaign, has also vowed to crack down on the use of H1-B visas as president. In March, he said he would “end forever the use of the H-1B as a cheap labor program, and institute an absolute requirement to hire American workers first for every visa and immigration program. No exceptions.”