Democrat Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) proposed a bizarre attack against President Donald Trump during a rant about Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
Waters melted down during a rant while protesting against DOGE’s efforts to end and expose waste and fraudulent abuse of taxpayer money on the federal government.
The congresswoman made the bizarre suggestion that Democrats seek to deport First Lady Melania Trump.
Waters suggested that the first lady somehow benefited from the practice of automatic birthright citizenship.
She made the claim in response to President Trump’s efforts to end the practice of birthright citizenship from being abused by illegal aliens.
Trump’s wife is a naturalized citizen who was born in Slovenia.
Nevertheless, Waters is pushing a narrative that the first lady may have been born to “undocumented parents.”
Melania Trump became a U.S. citizen in 2006.
She later sponsored her parents for citizenship, and they were naturalized in 2018.
Although Melania entered the U.S. through the legal process, that hasn’t stopped Trump’s critics on the Left from sometimes invoking her immigrant background to attack his policies against illegal immigration.
The attacks come despite Trump’s repeated assertion that his policies target illegal aliens, not legal immigrants.
“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,” Waters groaned.
“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.”
“We don’t know whether or not her parents were documented,” she added.
“And maybe we better just take a look.”
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The Trump administration has argued that the Fourteenth Amendment was never meant to grant automatic citizenship to the children of illegal aliens.
The relevant section of the Amendment states:
“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”
Critics of the current practice, including the Trump administration, argue that the key phrase “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” excludes those who fall under the jurisdiction of a foreign power, such as illegal aliens.
Trump signed an executive order to terminate birthright citizenship on his first day back in the White House.
Last week, Trump asked the Supreme Court to intervene in the consequential legal battle.
Waters is notorious for her inflammatory attacks on Trump.
She infamously encouraged mobs of people to harass his staff during his first presidential term as Democrats whipped up a furor over his border policies.
Trump, at the time, called her a “low IQ person.”
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