Business mogul Donald Trump created quite a storm ever since he acquired the coveted space of the President of the United States Of America, two weeks ago.
From signing executive orders on building a wall to banning immigrants from seven majorly muslim dominated countries, Trump invited widespread protests and criticism against his divisive ideologies and actions and his firm stance against immigrants and refugees.
However, many pointed out the irony in Trump’s hardline immigration policies, observing a crucial fact- Melania Trump, the First Lady Of the USA is herself, an immigrant. Melania Trump moved to New York about 2 decades ago. Originally from Slovenia, she became a US citizen a year after marrying Trump in 2005. Criticizing Trump’s tough stance on immigration, a California State Senator requested the White House to release the First Lady’s immigration documents. The tables were turned but the irony hasn’t subsided.
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Trump’s Grandfather Friedrich Trump was born in the Bavarian town of Kallstadt. The Telegraph reports how grandfather Trump was asked to deport from Germany, his hometown, where he returned in 1901, after having built an empire in America as an immigrant.
Letters from the archive reveal how Fred begged the then Prince of Bavaria not to deport him, to no avail.
After the German authorities discovered that he had never served the military before emigrating, he was banned from reclaiming his citizenship. However, Fred pleaded to the ‘well loved, noble, wise and just’ monarch to make an exception and block his deportation.
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Trump’s first wife Ivana was an immigrant too. Born in Czechoslovakia, she didn’t become an American citizen until after 11 years post her marriage to Donald Trump in 1977.
Trump’s mother was also not an American native. Mary MacLeod was born in Scotland. It was in 1942, as the second world war raged in, that Mary was recognized as a naturalized citizen of the USA.
It would be safe to say that the US President has always been in close proximity to immigrants, being the grandson and son of immigrants himself, notwithstanding his near repulsion to other immigrants and refugees who he tries to eliminate from his country, all in an effort to ‘Make America great again’!
