If Donald Trump wants to kick out illegal immigrants, he’ll have to start with his own wife
Last night Donald Trump decided to ruin the lives of eight hundred thousand innocent Americans who merely committed the “crime” of having been brought here as children by their parents. He’s previously endorsed a plan to place overall limits on immigration as well. He wants to build a wall to stop imaginary “Mexican rapists” from entering the country. But if Trump wants to begin kicking illegal immigrants out of the country, he’ll have to start with Melania.
Shortly before election day it was revealed that when Melania Trump first entered the United States, she illegally performed modeling work in violation of the U.S. visa program (link). The timing of the story, and Donald Trump’s shockingly illegitimate election “victory” a few days later, prevented the scandal from ever coming front and center. But the cold hard reality is that Melania came to the United States illegally, began working illegally, and just sort of stayed here, eventually becoming a U.S. citizen. But by her husband’s definition, she’s technically an illegal immigrant who needs to be sent home.
Melania Trump hasn’t committed any crimes since that time. She’s not guilty of any of the xenophobic stereotypes that Donald Trump has routinely and falsely hurled at immigrants during his time in politics. No one on any side of the political divide truly believes that someone like Melania should be deported simply because she came to the U.S. and began working here in undocumented fashion twenty years ago. In fact, aside from the part where she married a career criminal like Donald Trump, her story is more or less how immigration – documented or undocumented – is supposed to work.
Yet Donald Trump continues to demonize and torture immigrants, simply because he’s a sadist who enjoys pandering to racists. Considering he married an immigrant who came here and began working illegally, he’s also a hypocrite. Before he deports the DREAMers, let him deport Melania first.
