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Trump Administration Position on Supreme Court Case Suggests Melania Trump Could Be Deported
By Ben Mathis-Lilley
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard a case involving a Serbian woman who was deported after it turned out she'd misrepresented a fact about her husband during the process of becoming an American citizen. The Trump administration argued to the court that not only was the woman in question's deportation defensible, but that any inaccuracy on official paperwork, even regarding the most trivial and "immaterial" issues, can justify deportation and the revocation of citizenship. It's a position that even conservative chief justice John Roberts found to be an extreme one. Via the New York Times:
The form that people seeking American citizenship must complete, he added, asks whether the applicant had ever committed a criminal offense, however minor, even if there was no arrest.
If I answer that question no, 20 years after I was naturalized as a citizen, you can knock on my door and say, Guess what, youre not an American citizen after all? Chief Justice Roberts asked.
Robert A. Parker, a Justice Department lawyer, said the offense had to be disclosed. Chief Justice Roberts seemed shocked. Oh, come on, he said.
What's particularly interesting about the Trump administration supporting such an argument is that Melania Trump appears to have committed just such an omission on her own naturalization paperwork. In 2016, a lawyer representing Melaniaa native of Slovenia who was naturalized in 2006attested that he had reviewed her immigration documents and found no evidence that she had ever violated U.S. law. Later that year, however, the Associated Press uncovered records showing that she had in fact done paid modeling work for several weeks while she was staying in the U.S. in 1996 on a visitor visa, which would have been a violation of that visa's terms. If, as her lawyer's statement would appear to imply, Melania did not subsequently disclose this violation on other immigration documents, the Trump administration's current position would thus suggest shethe First Lady of the United Statesis subject to deportation.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/04/27/trump_supreme_court_deportation_citizenship_argument_might_cover_melania.html
Phoenix61
(17,006 posts)meow2u3
(24,766 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)crazycatlady
(4,492 posts)Lotusflower70
(3,077 posts)That's hilarious but unlikely because the rules don't apply to the Chumps.
riversedge
(70,259 posts)malaise
(269,096 posts)Never forget he and his wife adopted two children from Ireland. Down the line they could lose their citizen in the Con's world
n2doc
(47,953 posts)Pluvious
(4,314 posts)The longer you stare at her charming smile,
it begins to morph...
Try it for yourself !
struggle4progress
(118,316 posts)mopinko
(70,150 posts)my understanding is that she got in as a professional person, a designer, whatever. but she didnt have a degree.
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)lapislzi
(5,762 posts)On the one hand, she's no dummy, and knew what she was getting into. She bet her chips on a loathsome toad and got what she paid for. On the other hand, it is likely that she is paying for it in ways she may not have expected. Being married to him must be a special hell all on its own. That does not, and will not ever, excuse her complicity.
As I'm not in the judging business, all I can do is sigh and watch things play out.
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)marriage with a serial adulterer.
He is her highest paying client, for sure, and I'm also sure that it is a particular hell to be legally owned by that john.