Montini: Are Melania Trump’s parents here by way of ‘chain migration?’
EJ Montini
Among the reasons Congress can’t pass a bill that would provide a pathway to citizenship for young people currently protect by the DACA program are President Donald Trump’s demands for money to build a border wall and his insistence on changes in immigration law that would end what the president and other’s call “chain migration.”
Weird.
What about the in-laws, Mr. President?
The derogatory term refers to the practice by which immigrants bring in to the country members of their extended families. The president wants to limit the practice of sponsoring family members to only spouses and minor children.
Under those terms, it appears that the First Lady’s mom and dad, Viktor and Amalija Knavs, would be shipped back to Slovenia.
If Trump’s restrictions were in place Melania could not sponsor her parents. That most likely only could be done by a perspective employer. And that doesn't seem possible since her parents are retired people and in their 70s. (Like their son-in-law. Ba-dum ching!)
Closing the door after her folks get in?
The attorney for the Knavses told The Washington Post that the First Lady’s parents were living in the United States on green cards, but wouldn’t say how they got them.
Experts believe it is most likely by way of that “chain migration” the president wants to eliminate.
Closing America’s door to other families after his in-laws are safely inside.
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