While people of color struggle for immigration, US President Donald Trump’s wealthy, white relatives walk through the door, says Myles Hoenig, an American political analyst and activist.
Hoenig, a former Green Party candidate for Congress, made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Friday while commenting on a report which says the Slovenian-born parents of Melania Trump became US citizens at a naturalization ceremony in New York on Thursday, taking advantage of a family reunification program Trump has vehemently denounced.
Trump’s in-laws Viktor and Amalija Knavs took the oath of citizenship, their immigration lawyer Michael Wildes confirmed to AFP.
Asked by The New York Times if they had obtained citizenship under a program derisively branded “chain migration” by the president, Wildes replied: “I suppose.”
“There are many ways of looking at the story of Melania Trump’s parents receiving US citizenship through the chain…