SHOCKING REVEAL!!!Could Melania Trump be deported under proposed laws? CHECK 👇👇👇

SHOCKING REVEAL!!!Could Melania Trump be deported under proposed laws? CHECK 👇👇👇

A California congresswoman has implied that Melania Trump could face deportation under the president’s new immigration orders.

In a speech this week at a Los Angeles rally, Maxine Waters, a Democrat, said: “When he [Trump] talks about birthright, and he’s going to undo the fact that the Constitution allows those who are born here, even if the parents are undocumented, they have a right to stay in America. If he wants to start looking so closely to find those who were born here and their parents were undocumented, maybe he ought to first look at Melania.”

Waters, who is serving her 17th term in the US House of Representatives, added: “We don’t know whether or not her parents were documented. And maybe we better just take a look.”

The 86-year-old’s speech was in reference to the executive order signed by Trump on his first day in office, which seeks to end automatic citizenship rights for nearly anyone born on US territory. It would essentially deny citizenship to the children of people who are in the US illegally or on temporary visas, but it has faced legal challenges thus far.

Maxine Waters serves California’s 43rd congressional district
During the rally, held to oppose the Trump administration and the Department for Government Efficiency’s (Doge) slashes to the federal government, protesters marched to the Veterans Affairs hospital on Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles Times reported. The Department of Veteran Affairs has faced significant cuts since the start of the year.

Melania Trump is the first US First Lady to be a naturalized citizen and the second to be born outside of the US – after Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, the wife of John Quincy Adams, who was born in London. The First Lady first came to the US in 1996 and obtained citizenship on a visa meant for immigrants with “extraordinary ability”, according to the Washington Post.

She applied for the visa in 2000 and was approved in 2001 – becoming one of five people from Slovenia to secure the visa that year.

She later was able to sponsor her parents, Viktor and Amalija Knavs who permanently relocated to the US after their daughter’s marriage to Trump and the birth of her son, Barron. Amalija died last year at the age of 78.

Last week, Waters condemned the cuts to the Department of Education, which involved Trump signing an executive order to instruct the Education Secretary to take the steps needed to close the department “to the maximum extent appropriate and permitted by law”. In response to the news, Waters said: “Once again, Donald Trump has issued another reckless and appalling executive order.”

She added: “This blatantly unconstitutional executive order is just another piece of evidence that Trump has absolutely no respect for the Constitution, which he took an oath to preserve, protect, and defend when he was sworn in as president.”

Many have questioned if she actually could be deported, but this is almost impossible, despite any alleged hypocrisy on Trump’s part.

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