WaPo: Melania’s Mother Arrived Via “Chain Migration”

The Washington Post reports:

Melania Trump sponsored her mother to immigrate to the United States through a family-based process that former president Donald Trump aggressively sought to end, according to federal immigration records released Monday.

The records detail for the first time the full path that the former first lady’s mother, Amalija Knavs, followed from Slovenia to the United States — and how the Trump administration’s policies would have made that far more difficult for others. Knavs died in January at age 78.

Melania Trump used a legal pathway that her husband and his top advisers had repeatedly disparaged as “chain migration,” the right of U.S. citizens to bring their parents to the United States. During his presidency, Trump endorsed a bill called the RAISE Act that would have limited priority sponsorship to the spouses and minor children of U.S. citizens, taking parents off the fast-track list.

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Melania Trump sponsored her mother to immigrate to the United States through a family-based process that former president Donald Trump aggressively sought to end, according to federal immigration records released Monday. https://t.co/t9gbLd0EJl

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