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Mon Dec 26, 2016, 11:22 PM Dec 2016

Why he's called DRUMPF: Immigration so big in his life (mother, grandparents, 2/3 wives)

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http://fusion.net/story/305825/mary-anne-macleod-trump-immigration-scotland/
[font size=5]These Ellis Island documents reveal a surprising truth about Donald Trump’s immigrant mother[/font]


Here’s what Donald Trump has to say about low-wage immigrants on his website: “The influx of foreign workers holds down salaries, keeps unemployment high… We need to control the admission of new low-earning workers.”

What Trump doesn’t say, however, is that his own mother would once have fit into that category. When Mary Anne Macleod, who later gave birth to The Donald, first emigrated to the U.S. from Scotland at age 18, she came with only $50 in her possession and a job as a domestic servant. ....

According to the Ellis Island records, she went back to Scotland four years later in June 1934 and returned three months after that, when she was 22. She married Fred Trump in 1936.

Trump has previously said his mother only came to the U.S. “on holiday,” and didn’t intend to emigrate until she met her future husband. But the fact that the Ellis Island documents say she wanted to stay permanently suggests otherwise. His campaign didn’t respond to a request for comment about the records or The National‘s reporting in Scotland. ....

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