THE INSIDER: How model immigrants do it
Melania Trump — a small-time girl with big-time dreams who made it to the Big Apple and bagged herself a billionaire
The Insider has it on good authority that California state senator Nancy Skinner has asked the White House to release US first lady Melania Trump’s immigration documents. It is common cause that Melania arrived in the US in 1996 to pursue a modelling career. However, it is now alleged that the terms of her visa allowed her to look for work but did not grant permission for her to be paid for any work she landed. Yet it seems she did at least 10 paid modelling gigs while an "illegal". It is no secret that US President Donald Trump has a deep-seated mistrust and dislike of all people who aren’t born in the US, especially Mexicans. The exception, of course, was his mother (born in Scotland). Oh, and his first wife Ivana, who was born in Czechoslovakia. And Melania, who was born in Slovenia. Most obviously, however, Skinner’s request is a response to Trump’s relentless "birther" campaign against former president Barack Obama, who Trump insisted was born in Kenya and — horror of horrors —...
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