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Melania Trump’s immigration lawyer calls president’s attacks on ‘chain migration’ ‘unconscionable’

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Melania parents Viktor and Amalija Knavs (left) and their attorney Michael Wildes.

8/11/18
First lady Melania Trump’s immigration attorney is criticizing the president’s hostility toward “chain migration” — a process by which U.S. citizens or permanent residents can sponsor family members to come to the country — and said the attacks are “unconscionable.” “This is a tradition that happens in all rank and all files of life, whether you’re president of the United States — and this is the first naturalized first lady that we have — or people who eventually navigate through the waters into America,” Michael Wildes told CNN on Friday. Wildes, a high-profile attorney who has worked for numerous celebrities on immigration cases, represented the first lady’s parents, who became naturalized citizens Thursday. Viktor and Amalija Knavs left their native Slovenia and had been living in the United States as permanent residents. Citing legal experts, The Washington Post reported in February that the Knavses very likely came to the United States through family reunification, with their daughter sponsoring their green-card applications. Wildes confirmed as much during the interview with CNN’s Erin Burnett on “OutFront,” saying the first lady hired him “with the intentions of bringing her family here like everybody else would.” It’s the same process of legal immigration that President Trump has derided as “chain migration” and which he has called to end.

Trump has claimed that chain migration has resulted in national security threats, even though studies have shown that immigrants, both legal and undocumented, are less likely to commit crimes than native-born Americans. In several speeches and interviews over the past months, Trump has called chain migration “terrible” and a “disaster.” He has also claimed, falsely as The Post’s Fact Checker found, that the process allowed a terror suspect to bring two dozen relatives to the country. “You bring one person in, you end up with 32 people,” he said at one news conference. Responding to the president’s comments, clips of which were played in succession during the interview, Wildes denounced claims that chain migration allows people to simply bring in any relative to the United States. “Let me take off one hat as the first lady’s immigration lawyer and her family and put on my own personal hat. It’s unconscionable to scare people into believing that. You cannot bring nephews, you cannot bring nieces or uncles, you can’t bring 32 people here, and some of the quotas are backed up for 10 or 15 years from particular countries,” Wildes said, adding that the proper term is family reunification.

Trumps family can do it without a peep from him, but for everyone else it is “terrible” and a “disaster.” Yet another poignant example of Trump hyperbole and hypocrisy.

Related: Immigration lawyer of Melania Trump's parents pushes back against Trump immigration proposal
 
Melania Trump’s immigration lawyer calls president’s attacks on ‘chain migration’ ‘unconscionable’

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Melania parents Viktor and Amalija Knavs (left) and their attorney Michael Wildes.



Trumps family can do it without a peep from him, but for everyone else it is “terrible” and a “disaster.” Yet another poignant example of Trump hyperbole and hypocrisy.

Related: Immigration lawyer of Melania Trump's parents pushes back against Trump immigration proposal

BS, this is no different then say arguing that a tax break should not exist while taking that tax break like everyone else does....there is no moral duty to harm oneself on purpose while arguing that America has made a mistake...in fact I argue that we have a duty to ourselves to not do that.

Trump agrees with me, he has said so more than a few times.
 
This whole notion of chain migration actually is a beautiful bedrock of immigration law and policy called family reunification," Wildes said, noting he was speaking about his personal beliefs and not on behalf of the first lady or her family as their lawyer.
"Imagine this, people will work harder and love more, and do more for America knowing that their loved ones, their immediate relatives, their parents, their children ... to say you can bring one relative and not another relative ... I can understand that some of them may be in jeopardy, and you may want to retool an antiquated immigration system. It looks weird to have a lottery system. But chain migration? No. Family reunification."

Limiting which relatives can come to the US in this process is a wise decision. If the person is not an immediate relative, then it needs to be merit based only. At least he doesn't support the lottery system.
 
Melania Trump’s immigration lawyer calls president’s attacks on ‘chain migration’ ‘unconscionable’

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Melania parents Viktor and Amalija Knavs (left) and their attorney Michael Wildes.



Trumps family can do it without a peep from him, but for everyone else it is “terrible” and a “disaster.” Yet another poignant example of Trump hyperbole and hypocrisy.

Related: Immigration lawyer of Melania Trump's parents pushes back against Trump immigration proposal

Does melania’s father look like trump’s age or is it just me?


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Does melania’s father look like trump’s age or is it just me?

Viktor is 73 years old. Amaljia is 71. When they met in Sevnica in 1966.....

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They just might move into the White House. They have been living in Trump Tower and Mar-a-Lago.
 
George Soros donated 25 million to democrats in the 2016 election. Liberal donor Tom Steyer donated $31 million in 2016. New York hedge funder Don Sussman $13.2 million to various democrat campaigns and committees, Liberal media moguls Saban and Fred Eychaner both donated $11.1 million each.

All this while leftist candidates bleat on about campaign finance reform and limiting private donations in political campaigns.

But...THATS different than Trump wanting to end chain migration but following the existing law and having his wifes family become citizens after they have lived here for...what...5 years? 10?
 
Those people against “chain -migration” cannot show any evidence that such a process of immigration is of any threat. As statistics have shown time and again, these immigrants have a lower crime rate than native-born citizens. Those who debate in favor of Trump’s false claims thus lose that debate for lack of evidence to support such an assertion.

BTW, are any of you who are against chain-migration also against immigration in whole, or lowering immigration by 50%, like Trump wants? If so, why?
 
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