Melania Trump Could Face Deportation, Maxine Waters Suggests

[BumRushDaShow]

Last edited Wed Mar 26, 2025, 10:54 AM - Edit history (1)

Source: Newsweek

Published Mar 26, 2025 at 5:27 AM EDT


Congresswoman Maxine Waters suggested that Donald Trump should consider deporting his wife, Melania Trump, while criticizing his administration's immigration policies.

Why It Matters

The president has vowed to remove millions of migrants without legal status from the United States as part of his mass deportation program.

What to Know

The California Democrat made the remarks about Melania Trump while expressing her opposition to cuts to federal programs by the president's adviser Elon Musk, who heads the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

"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," Waters said at a rally in Los Angeles.

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/melania-trump-deportation-maxine-waters-immigration-doge-cuts-2050557

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[Omnipresent]

1. Bye bye Mel!

[Irish_Dem]

2. Why did a hooker and porn model get a visa? An Einstein visa no less.

Did Melania lie on her visa like Musk?

Is she here illegally?

[hadEnuf]

3. Good for Waters. This is how you do it. Keep hammering them on their absurd hypocrisy.

No holds barred.

[snowybirdie]

4. Rather start with Musk Melon

He's an immigrant who entered this country under false premises. Used a student visa and never attended school.

[raccoon]

5. That would be a consummation devoutly to be wished.

[Bengus81]

6. If everyone could get Citizenship as fast as Mrs. Trophy then there wouldn't be a problem

with illegals,there wouldn't be any.

[twodogsbarking]

7. Bye Melaaaaaahniaaaaaa.

[TommieMommy]

8. Good one 👍👍

[Ms. Toad]

10. The quoted comment from Waters makes no logical sense

And the link is to a reparations for rioters article.

As to Waters remarks, Melania's continued presence in the country has zero to do with birthright citizenship. She got here through a "genius" visa.

[BumRushDaShow]

12. Thanks for the heads up. Fixed.

I have the tabs for the news sites right next to each in my browser!

I have about 3 dozen news sites in tabs.

[Ms. Toad]

16. Only 3 dozen?

I've already got 20, and I just turned my computer on for the day.

[BumRushDaShow]

18. That's just "news site" tabs

I have close to 450 tabs open in a window with "sections" for my weather monitoring/weather models, recipe stuff, gardening stuff, computer hardware stuff, and some miscellaneous DU stuff.

[Ms. Toad]

19. OK. You win.

I usually only have one window open, and when the tabs get so small that I can't tell what's on them I clean house.

[BumRushDaShow]

20. It can be a nightmare when I have to upgrade (either Firefox and/or windoze)

But I do a lot of "hobby" researching and reading in between DU stuff. But that means I'm swinging back and forth along the row of tabs (I keep them in a single row versus the option to group them in multiple rows so I have a big enough window to read the pages).

I have my preferences modded so it looks closer to to the old-style Firefox "folder tabs" (I hate the plain square-top tabs) and the tabs scroll off the end of the row but I can go forward/back along that row to get to either end.

[dickthegrouch]

33. Pro tip for multiple open tabs

Use the task manager or process explorer to kill your browser before upgrading it.
The browser will tell you that it was terminated abruptly and ask if you want to restore your pages.

[BumRushDaShow]

34. With Firefox, I can just kill the window and when I reopen it after an upgrade

it gives me the option to "Restore previous session" and all the tabs are there.

My "issue" was more with my saving certain "versions" of pages because a restore means the browser automatically grabs the latest version from the server when I click on the tab to see it's current view (although it refuses to grab the lateest when I do a regular "refresh", where it forces me to do a SHIFT-REFRESH to get the latest - I guess their way to speed stuff up ).

[Cirsium]

24. Not here

It is still too cold to start opening the windows.

Seriously, though, what a ridiculous comment by Waters and what a crap article.

[BumRushDaShow]

30. It's called "trolling".

And at her age, she can say any damn thing she wants.

[Cirsium]

31. Sure

Agreed.

[travelingthrulife]

13. That is the point she was making. If Trump is so hot to go after citizens by birthright

he should first look at his foreign-born wife's probably illegal entry into this country.

[Ms. Toad]

15. But she expressly tied it to birthright citizenship,

and to parents who were undocumented at the time their children were born in the US. Which has no application at all to Melania.

Absent more of what she said (which I followed the link to try to find . . . but it led elsewhere), what she said makes no logical sense.

[travelingthrulife]

22. Seems clear to me.

[Cirsium]

25. What she said

"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."

Melania was not born here to undocumented parents.

[FBaggins]

11. Why do we keep seeing this nonsense?

She wasn’t “born here of undocumented parents”

[BumRushDaShow]

14. It's the "game" that Republicans continually play

and forces Democrats to keep going on a defensive when they do it. So sometimes doing that "two can play this game" thing will help to cancel their crap out.

Later in the article it noted that she quipped -

Waters said at the rally in Los Angeles: "We don't know whether or not her parents were documented. And maybe we better just take a look."

It ends up that the article had to explain Melania's circumstances - which in normal times, is par for the course - but under her racist-ass husband, would be considered something "illegal", and a "deportable offense".

If you don't go on the offensive, you will ALWAYS fail with the bully.

[Ms. Toad]

28. Whether her parents were born here or documented is completely irrelevant

That is not why she has citizenship.

Going on the offensive does not require making up/spouting nonsense.

[BumRushDaShow]

35. It's "trolling"

It's because 45 is doing all this cherry-picking and pretzel-twisting of who is a citizen or not. WE know what the rules are supposed to be but he is intentionally muddying the waters with nonsense and his MAGat media are helping to magnify it.

45's mother was OFF THE BOAT from Scotland and was NOT even a citizen when his older brother was born. Some of the loons have made a fuss about "anchor babies" DESPITE at least one parent being a citizen (as was 45's case with his father being the citizen, as an "anchor baby" of his grandparents, neither of whom were citizens or born here).

The whole bizarre issue even goes back to the "birther" nonsense with Obama and that lead to all the crap about John McCain who was NOT "born in the United States" but on a base, where again, people had to explain what the deal is with that ( "military brats" in his case, born in Panama). It also points to Ted Cruz who literally was NOT born on U.S. soil and was also a dual citizen - and thanks to the GOP bullshit and people calling it out - forced him to eat crow and actually renounce his Canadian citizenship (his father was from Cuba and his mother was a U.S. citizen living in Canada where he was born).

"Turnabout" is fair play.

[Ms. Toad]

37. All of those examples are related to birthright citizenship.

Melania's citizenship has zero to do with where she was born or who her parents were, so it makes zero sense in a conversation about birthright citizenship to ask where she or her parents were born.

It's not turnabout. It just makes us look dumb.

[BumRushDaShow]

38. The whole point is

45 and his ass MAGaloons have been "mudding the waters" with made-up "criteria" for "citizenship". As I said, we *know* what the rules are but the zombies will believe anything and everything 45 says and right now, ACTUAL CITIZENS are being rounded up by ICE and/or are being attacked by RW extremists, include a bunch who are "posing as ICE agents" to harass and scare citizens in certain communities.

It IS "turnabout" because it emphasizes their idiocy and leaves them few options to refute it or attack it, and if they DO, it forces them to go closer back to "the truth".

It's what happens when they pretzel-twist things "for the moment" without any thought of future consequences.

[Ms. Toad]

39. It doesn't emphasize their idiocy. It only makes us look just as idiotic. n/t

[BumRushDaShow]

40. It most certainly does

because again - people "know" the truth (and many are living it within their families).

You have to call out their idiocy in every manner possible.

We are continually excoriated for being "too elite" and "too intellectual" and "too this" or "too that". You put it where those goats can get it, make them pay attention, and force them to refute it. Most of the rest of the public is NOT paying attention to this level "politics". It's mostly political junkies like those who post on a site like this.

[Ms. Toad]

41. So I suppose if everyone else ran off a cliff, you would recommend we follow?

Emulating idiots, just because that's how they do things, is not something I have any interest in supporting.

You can be down to earth and still be honest and logical.

[BumRushDaShow]

42. "Words" are not the "actions" that you insist they are

As I said before, it's called "trolling". If you can't separate "trolling" (and mocking) from "real life", there isn't much I can do to help.

[Ms. Toad]

43. Trolling and mocking is not effective unless it is based in reality. n/t

[BumRushDaShow]

44. That's not the definition of either

troll
2 of 3
verb
trolled; trolling; trolls

transitive verb

(snip)

2a
: to antagonize (others) online by deliberately posting inflammatory, irrelevant, or offensive comments or other disruptive content
… trolls engage in the most outrageous and offensive behaviors possible—all the better to troll you with.—
Whitney Phillips

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/troll#:~:text=troll%20nightclubs-,2,better%20to%20troll%20you%20with.

mock
1 of 4
verb

mocked; mocking; mocks

transitive verb

1: to treat with contempt or ridicule : deride
he has been mocked as a mama's boy—
C. P. Pierce

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mock

These are "tools in the toolbox" when you have people who won't engage intellectually.

[Kali]

46. maybe they mean Barron is the anchor baby and mel is the "illegal"

I don't really care, just a possibility. it really is about the xenophobia and bigotry.

[Ms. Toad]

47. That doesn't fit with the context of the comment.

You're right about the motive.

I just get annoyed when we play nonsensical games, and justify it because the other side is doing the same thing.

There are ways to convey messages that everyday people can relate to without engaging in gish-gallop or dishonesty - and we should be pursuing them.

[republianmushroom]

17. What goes around, comes around.

[BigDemVoter]

21. She SHOULD be. . . .

She came in under an "Einstein Visa." My ASS. . . .

[Cirsium]

23. Newsweek

"It's highly unlikely that the Trump administration would revoke the citizenship of the president's wife and deport her."

Do you think?

[CTyankee]

27. Maybe she should be investigated after Trump's 2nd term is over. Would serve her right and give them both nightmares

unless it would be a constant reminder of those two criminals.

[FakeNoose]

26. Democrats are resorting to "tit-for-tat" politics

I guess that's all we have now.

[jmowreader]

29. He might actually do it

It would save him from having to fulfill the conditions in their prenup if he wants to get rid of her. I’m pretty sure her lawyers got her half his assets and none of his debt if they divorce.

[Martin68]

32. Melania and Musk. Watch Dump's head explode.

[sellitman]

36. Don-Old might like this idea.

He wouldn't have to pay her alimony when they eventually divorce.

It could save him Millions.

[AmericaUnderSiege]

45. Russia Boy doesn't care about his wife, or anyone else for that matter.

But since he's denied the birthright citizenship that's in the Constitution (like pretty much all of the rest of it), might as well say he himself should be deported. He for sure serves another country and hates this one.