One of Donald Trump’s immigration-related executive orders include one from Jan. 25, in which he said there would be a prioritization of the deportation of people who “engaged in fraud or willful misrepresentation in connection with any official matter or application before a governmental agency.”
And now, as Slate’s Ben Mathis-Lilley points out, under this executive order, the new First Lady herself would have been prioritized for deportation had Trump been president when she was in the United States in the ‘90s with a B1/B2 visitor visa. That’s because Melania Trump — whose last name was Knauss or Knaus in 1996 — did modeling work that she was paid for, according to the Associated Press, which would have been a violation of her visa terms.
"If the current executive order on interior enforcement and the related Homeland Security memoranda on interior enforcement had been in effect at that time, then she would have certainly been an enforcement priority," Hasan Shafiqullah, the deputy attorney in charge of the immigration law unit at the Legal Aid Society, told Slate.
For Mathis-Lilley’s full take, be sure to click over to Slate.
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