{"id":372826,"date":"2018-08-10T11:24:08","date_gmt":"2018-08-10T10:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-trumps-in-laws-become-us-citizens-using-chain-migration\/"},"modified":"2018-08-10T11:24:08","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T10:24:08","slug":"presstv-trumps-in-laws-become-us-citizens-using-chain-migration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-trumps-in-laws-become-us-citizens-using-chain-migration\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Trump&#8217;s in-laws become US citizens using &#8216;chain migration&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The Slovenian-born parents of Melania Trump became US citizens at a naturalization ceremony in New York on Thursday, reportedly taking advantage of a family reunification program President Donald Trump has vehemently denounced.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s in-laws Viktor and Amalija Knavs took the oath of citizenship, their immigration lawyer Michael Wildes confirmed to AFP.<\/p>\n<p>Asked by The New York Times if they had obtained citizenship under a program derisively branded &#8220;chain migration&#8221; by the president, Wildes replied: &#8220;I suppose.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said chain migration, which allows naturalized US citizens to sponsor close relatives for permanent residency, was a &#8220;dirtier&#8221; way of characterizing what he called &#8220;a bedrock of our immigration process when it comes to family reunification.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump has taken a hardline on immigration policy, criticizing so-called chain migration.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican president has said such a system steals jobs from Americans and threatens national&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/08\/10\/570757\/Melania-Trump-parents-US-citizens\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Slovenian-born parents of Melania Trump became US citizens at a naturalization ceremony in New York on Thursday, reportedly taking advantage of a family reunification program President Donald Trump has vehemently denounced. Trump&#8217;s in-laws Viktor and Amalija Knavs took the oath of citizenship, their immigration lawyer Michael Wildes confirmed to AFP. Asked by The New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-372826","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}