An aspiring model from Slovenia, the future wife of Donald Trump came to the United States on a tourist visa, but never worked illegally, according to a lawyer hired to review her immigration records. But Trump has declined to release those records.
Trump has made illegal immigration a central issue of his campaign, vowing to deport people living in the U.S. illegally. Melanija’s immigration status became an issue when the New York Post published nude photos taken during a New York photo shoot in 1995 — she came here on a tourist visa, and worked illegally, before obtaining an H1-B work visa in 1996.
In an attempt to end the controversy, Melanija hired Michael Wildes, who has done work for Trump’s modeling agency and the Miss Universe pageant, to review her records. She released a letter from him on Twitter.
Wildes dutifully wrote that allegations that she worked illegally “are not supported by the record and are therefore completely without merit.”
In her own interviews, Melanija has given a somewhat different account of her visa history.
There’s one easy way to settle the issue —release her file to show whether she had visitor visas or work visas and when.
Why won’t the Trump campaign simply show the American people the relevant immigration paperwork?
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-politics-melania-immigration-20160914-snap-story.html
