I stan for Rep. Jasmine Crockett and her questions about Melania Trump's path to U.S. citizenship [View all]

Jenice Armstrong

Four of President Donald Trump’s children were born to two different women, who both happened to be immigrants. The president’s own mother immigrated to this country from Scotland; his paternal grandparents came from Germany.

It’s essential to point this out because it not only underscores the hypocrisy of Trump’s deportation plan, but it also illustrates how diabolical it is that Trump is doing everything in his power to set up naturalization roadblocks for other immigrants.

Not only does the president want to rewrite the rules for birthright citizenship, but he wants to keep America’s refugee resettlement program suspended indefinitely. He makes exceptions for white South Africans to move here, but then tries to force out Haitians by taking away their temporary protection status.

Trump needs to be called out on his racist immigration policies. That’s why I stan, as the young folks say, for Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D., Texas), who is daring to question first lady Melania Trump’s path to U.S. citizenship.

She’s not the first to do so (the topic was all over the media during Trump’s first term), but Crockett’s comments made it part of the legislative record.

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/melania-trump-family-immigration-trajectory-20250703.html