{"id":9938,"date":"2017-03-14T10:21:12","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T17:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=9938"},"modified":"2021-07-26T10:26:38","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T17:26:38","slug":"9938-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/9938-2\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

From an Angry Reader:<\/h3>\n
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Read your column on immigration published in the 2\/24\/2017 Morning Call (Lehigh Valley, PA) and was wondering – you seemed to indicate that falsification of government affidavits should be grounds for deportation.\u00a0 Since it appears that Melanie Trump was employed in violation of her visa in the mid 1990’s, and lied about it on her naturalization application, would you support deporting her, or do you favor a different standard for the rich?<\/p>\n

http:\/\/bigstory.ap.org\/article\/37dc7aef0ce44077930b7436be7bfd0d\/trumps-wife-modeled-us-prior-getting-work-visa<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0Thomas Schreiber<\/p>\n

\u00a0Victor Davis Hanson’s Reply:<\/h3>\n

Dear Angry Reader Thomas Schreiber,<\/p>\n

\u00a0I am not aware that news accounts of Ms. Trump\u2019s immigration status of years past were any more accurate than were charges that she worked for an escort service\u2014smears that led to an ongoing lawsuit against the Daily Mail.<\/p>\n

\u00a0No one has successfully accused Ms. Trump of entering the US illegally or committing document falsification\u2014as you insinuate.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Rather the election-cycle rumors were that she entered the US on a tourist visa (and and subsequently resided on a work visa and then a green card) and worked before her work visa was processed.<\/p>\n

\u00a0In contrast, she insists she was scouting job opportunities while on a tourist visa and subsequently went to work only when she obtained a work visa and then a green card.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The dispute involves a 7-week period in the transition between a tourist and a work visa. The AP story did not substantiate your accusations, given that it is based on anonymous sources that supposedly provided ledgers dating back more than 20 years ago\u2014and which remained unnamed. The accusations appeared, of course, just days before the November election.<\/p>\n

\u00a0In sum, Ms. Trump\u2019s has not been accused of falsification of documents; and there is as yet no evidence that she jumped the gun by 7 weeks by working rather than just investigating work before the transition to her work visa. To compare this charge with falsification of documents or filing false affidavits is ridiculous. And Melania Knauss was not \u201crich\u201d when she entered the United States two decades ago as you also falsely allege.<\/p>\n

\u00a0If you remain worried about equality under the law, I suggest reexamining Hillary Clinton\u2019s exemption after destroying email, illegally using a private server for State Department business, and granting concessions to large donors to the Clinton Foundation; they are better examples of the rich receiving preferential treatment than rumors about one Melanie Knauss working rather than interviewing for work a few weeks before her legal work visa was finalized.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Sincerely, Victor Hanson<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From an Angry Reader: Read your column on immigration published in the 2\/24\/2017 Morning Call (Lehigh Valley, PA) and was wondering – you seemed to indicate that falsification of government affidavits should be grounds for deportation.\u00a0 Since it appears that Melanie Trump was employed in violation of her visa in the mid 1990’s, and lied […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2Ai","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11925,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/angry-reader-7-30-2019\/","url_meta":{"origin":9938,"position":0},"title":"Angry Reader 7-30-2019","author":"victorhanson","date":"August 3, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"From An Angry Reader: Dont worry , no silly greetings for you. 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