When Melania Trump worked illegally in the United States
In 1996, the wife of the Republican candidate for the White House earned $ 20,000 when she was not allowed to work in the country.
Immigration is Donald Trump's favorite subject. The American billionaire intends in particular to build a wall between the United States and Mexico to prevent illegal immigration if he is elected president. In the meantime, his wife Melania, a Slovenian immigrant who arrived on American soil in 1996, is caught up in her past. The Associated Press reveals that the former model obtained a "B-1 / B-2" tourist visa on August 16, 1996, when she was 26 years old. Visa which did not give him the right to work in the United States. Yet Melania Knavs, now Trump, received $ 20,056 for ten modeling contracts between August 16 and October 18, 1996, when she was finally issued her "H-1B" work visa.
Melania Trump has, among other things, worked for Metropolitan International Management, a modeling agency with which Paolo Zampolli, the man who recruited the future Mrs. Trump, collaborated. Contacted by Associated Press, Paolo Zampolli claims that he was not aware of Melania Knavs' status at the time, in this case of her tourist visa. " Honestly, I do not know. It was 20 years ago. The contract was real. These two months of work without a permit constitute a violation of the rights in force on immigration across the Atlantic.
The American dream of a Slovenian model
This history of illegal work is brought to light as Melania Trump claimed on September 14 that she arrived in the United States "following the legal process". She had, for the occasion, shared on her Twitter account a letter from her lawyer specializing in immigration law. The latter denied several articles in the American press which argued that Melania Trump had worked illegally on American soil in 1995. “Contrary to what several articles claim, Mrs. Trump never worked in the United States in 1995, since ' she was not in the United States in 1995. ”He then assured that Melania Knavs set foot on American soil for the first time on August 27, 1996, which the new revelations of Associated Press refute by advancing the date of August 16 . The former model did not work illegally in the United States in 1995 ... it was in 1996.
Two days before the US presidential election - and after several scandals related to Donald Trump's behavior with women - Melania Trump is called to the rescue by the Republican candidate's campaign team. In a speech at a meeting in Philadelphia on November 3, the wannabe First Lady pulled out the card of the European model who attempted the American dream. “As a young entrepreneur, I wanted to make my dream come true and go to a place where freedom and opportunity would be available to me,” she explained. “So I came here. Living and working in America was really lucky, but I wanted more. I wanted to become American. This has been done since 2006, five years after obtaining his permanent resident card (green card) in the United States, and one year after marrying the businessman, now a candidate for the White House .
