California Rep. Maxine Waters said President Trump should think about deporting his foreign-born wife first lady Melania Trump during a rant about the president’s immigration policies. 

Waters went after the first lady at a Los Angeles rally protesting DOGE cuts, where she referenced Trump’s executive order attempting to end birthright citizenship, which confers citizenship status on people born here. 

‘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,’ she said, personalizing the political attack.

‘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,’ she said.

Here comments referenced a series of actions by the Trump administration to try to remove people who came here illegally or who don’t have legal status anymore.  

‘We don’t know whether or not her parents were documented. And maybe we better just take a look,’ said Waters, who was among the first House Democrats calling to impeach Trump during his first term. 

Melania, whose maiden name is Knauss, is a Slovenia-born model who emigrated to the U.S. and became a naturalized citizen.

Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters railed against Trump administration immigration policies and even said Trump should ‘look at Melania’ if he wants to find people whose parents were undocumented. In fact, Melania sponsored her parents for U.S. citizenship after migrating here from Slovenia

Her parents, Viktor and Amalija Knavs, both became citizens in 2018 while Trump was in office after Melania sponsored them for green cards.

Amalija died last year, while Viktor Knavs has been spotted traveling with the Trumps.

The Trump administration has been seeking to implement Trump’s call for mass deportations, while defendants have been suing to protest some of their efforts.

Attorneys representing some of the Venezuelan men deported and sent to a notorious El Salvadoran prison claim their clients are not gang members and were denied a process to prove it. Trump and House Republican loyalists have been attacking the judge overseeing the case.

First lady Melania Trump is a naturalized U.S. citizen who was born in Slovenia

Her parents, Viktor and Amalija Knavs, both became citizens in 2018 while Trump was in office after Melania sponsored them for green cards. Amalija died last year

Melania’s sister Ines became a permanent U.S. resident after an intervention by her sister

Columbia University student Unseo Chung, 21, who came to the country from South Korea at age 7 faces potential deportation after her ICE arrest. She was arrested at a Barnard College protest and is a lawful permanent resident.

It was revealed Monday that Trump’s sister Maryanne Trump Barry authored the judicial opinion that a 1952 law being used to deport former Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil, another protester, was unconstitutional. 

Trump signed the order purporting to end birthright citizenship on his first day back in office. 

‘The executive order works to clarify the 14th Amendment, which 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,’ it said.

The order sought to remove the application of citizenship to those born of people who came here illegally, or were here on temporary visas at the time their children were born. It seeks to restrict citizenship to those born of a U.S. citizen or legal permanent resident.

Federal courts issued orders to pause the order, and Trump’s lawyers asked the Supreme Court to intervene. 

The post-Civil War 14th Amendment states that ‘all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof’ are Americans. 

Melania’s successful efforts to bring her parents to the country did coincide with her husband’s attacks on what he called ‘chain migration’ – where people come here for the purpose of offering citizenship to an extended family.

Melania’s sister Ines became a permanent U.S. resident after an intervention by her sister, according to the book The Art of Her Deal: The Untold Story of Melania Trump, by Mary Jordan.

‘CHAIN MIGRATION must end now! Some people come in, and they bring their whole family with them, who can be truly evil. NOT ACCEPTABLE!’ Trump posted on Twitter in 2017. ‘We want to get rid of chain migration,’ Trump said at the White House at the time.