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napkinz

(17,199 posts)
Sat Nov 5, 2016, 09:54 AM Nov 2016

Hello, MSM! "Donald Trump has taken a hard line on immigration laws and those who violate them"

OK, MSM, you falsely reported last week that the FBI had REOPENED its investigation into Hillary's emails. It was a feeding frenzy.

Are you now going to report on Melania's violation of immigration law and EXPOSE TRUMP'S HYPOCRISY on this issue? Are you going to hound him and his campaign with questions the way you hounded Hillary? Where are the Breaking News banners?

The Story ...

Melania Trump Worked ILLEGALLY In the United States Without A Work Visa

WASHINGTON (AP) — Melania Trump was paid for 10 modeling jobs in the United States worth $20,056 that occurred in the seven weeks before she had legal permission to work in the country, according to detailed accounting ledgers, contracts and related documents from 20 years ago provided to The Associated Press.

The details of Mrs. Trump's early paid modeling work in the U.S. emerged in the final days of a bitter presidential campaign in which her husband, Donald Trump, has taken a hard line on immigration laws and those who violate them. Trump has proposed broader use of the government's E-verify system allowing employers to check whether job applicants are authorized to work. He has noted that federal law prohibits illegally paying immigrants.

Mrs. Trump, who received a green card in March 2001 and became a U.S. citizen in 2006, has always maintained that she arrived in the country legally and never violated the terms of her immigration status. During the presidential campaign, she has cited her story to defend her husband's hard line on immigration.

The wife of the GOP presidential nominee, who sometimes worked as a model under just her first name, has said through an attorney that she first came to the U.S. from Slovenia on Aug. 27, 1996, on a B1/B2 visitor visa and then obtained an H-1B work visa on Oct. 18, 1996.

The documents obtained by the AP show she was paid for 10 modeling assignments between Sept. 10 and Oct. 15, during a time when her visa allowed her generally to be in the U.S. and look for work but not perform paid work in the country. The documents examined by the AP indicate that the modeling assignments would have been outside the bounds of her visa.

read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/melania-trump-modeling-visa-jobs-230774

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Hello, MSM! "Donald Trump has taken a hard line on immigration laws and those who violate them" (Original Post) napkinz Nov 2016 OP
That, and also... Amonester Nov 2016 #1
posted by kpete in GD: "Mrs. Trump: Perhaps it is time to revise and extend?" napkinz Nov 2016 #2
I love it that people are getting on this.. thank you, napkinz! Cha Nov 2016 #3
Joy Reid is about to cover the story. napkinz Nov 2016 #4
Jose Antonio Vargas calls it "the height of hypocrisy" napkinz Nov 2016 #5
kick napkinz Nov 2016 #6
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