http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/melania-trump-broke-u-s-immigration-laws-article-1.2738334Melania Trump may have once been an undocumented worker who illegally made a living in this country — one of the very issues her immigrant-bashing husband has made a cornerstone of his hypocritical presidential campaign.
After the publication of a series of racy photos earlier this week of Trump’s wife dating back to 1995 — the year before she’s repeatedly said she entered the U.S. — doubt has been cast over how the Slovenian-born former model would have been able to legally work in this country.
In addition to Trump’s most outrageous proposals of building a wall along the southern border with Mexico and banning Muslims from entering the U.S., Trump has also said he would enhance penalties for people who overstay their visas.
In another anti-immigrant proposal, Trump would also completely eliminate the very program — an umbrella of visas known as H-1B, which essentially allows temporary employment for foreign workers for certain occupations — his wife may have used to enter the country as model in the first place.
“The H-1B program is neither high-skilled nor immigration: these are temporary foreign workers, imported from abroad, for the explicit purpose of substituting for American workers at lower pay,” Trump said in a March 3 statement still posted to his campaign website.
“I remain totally committed to eliminating rampant, widespread H-1B abuse. I will end forever the use of the H-1B as a cheap labor program, and institute an absolute requirement to hire American workers for every visa and immigration program. No exceptions.”
Melania Trump has repeatedly said she first came to the United States in 1996 as a tourist on a short-term visa — a year after these newly-released photos were taken. The document wouldn’t have allowed her to legally work in the United States as a model.
If Melania Trump's immigrant-bashing husband was elected and had his way in enacting measures to kick out illegal immigrants, the Slavic seductress, whose own immigration history is unclear, may have never had a shot to live out her American dream.
In a Harper’s Bazaar profile of the potential First Lady published earlier this year, Melania Trump said she had to return to Slovenia every few months to renew her visa.
Experts said visas of that nature would not have allowed her to work in the U.S. legally.
Melania Trump’s comments likely described a B-1 Temporary Business Visitor visa or a B-2 Tourist visa, experts said, which both only last up to six months and would not have allowed the ex-model to work legally in this country.
The answer of how Melania entered the U.S. and whether she overstayed her visa would be easily answered if her husband’s presidential campaign simply released her immigration records.
On Thursday, the campaign replied to such a request from the Daily News with a glib, one-line remark.
“No further comment to Melania’s statement,” campaign spokeswoman Hope Hicks said, referring to a broad statement Melania herself had tweeted out earlier in the day after questions over her immigration status were again raised.
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