Focus on Melania First, He Should – One America News Network
OAN Staff Brooke Mallory
1:56 PM – Tuesday, March 25, 2025
During a recent anti-DOGE demonstration in Los Angeles, Democratic Representative Maxine Waters from California implied that President Donald Trump should take a closer look at his wife, First Lady Melania Trump, regarding her immigration status.
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“When he [Trump] talks about birthright, and he’s going to undo the fact that the Constitution allows those who are born here, even if the parents are undocumented, they have a right to stay in America. If he wants to start looking so closely to find those who were born here and their parents were undocumented, maybe he ought to first look at Melania,” said Waters at the Los Angeles rally, as seen in various social media videos.
“We don’t know whether or not her parents were documented. And maybe we better just take a look,” she continued.
Melania Trump was born in Slovenia and became a U.S. citizen in 2006. She is the second first lady to have been born outside the United States, following Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, the wife of President John Quincy Adams, who was born in London in 1775.
Furthermore, Melania is the first U.S. first lady to undergo naturalization.
After securing her own citizenship, Melania sponsored her parents, Viktor and Amalija Knavs, who were also originally from Slovenia, for green cards and subsequently citizenship — as reported in a 2018 New York Times article. The Knavs obtained U.S. citizenship in 2018.
Viktor Knavs has been seen at public events with the Trump family recently, including sitting with their son Barron Trump during the inauguration, while Amalija Knavs passed away in 2024.
Waters referenced an executive order that President Trump signed on his first day in office, which seeks to eliminate birthright citizenship.
“The Trump EO aims to restrict birthright citizenship to prohibit individuals born to illegal immigrant parents or those in the U.S. on temporary non-immigrant visas,” reported Fox News.
Recently, Trump brought this matter to the U.S. Supreme Court, and the executive order is under review.
Waters made her comments during the protest in Los Angeles, where activists gathered to express their opposition to the Trump administration and the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) attempts to curtail waste, overspending, and fraud within the federal government.
As part of the event, demonstrators marched towards the VA hospital located on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles, according to the Los Angeles Times.
“We are here because we are not going to allow Trump, or Elon Musk, his co-president, or anyone else to dismantle the United States Constitution,” Waters stated as she addressed the crowd.
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