Thread: Melania Trump: 'I followed the law' as immigrant

PALEEZE - let us not be picayunish. Would you rather cruz be the nominee and lose to a democrat??
Count your blessings that Mr Trump has engaged himself in this journey.

She is 46yrs old, her father (whatever his beliefs are or were considering the times) has nothing to do with her beliefs. She has stated she would be a traditional 1st lady aka Jackie Kennedy & Betty Ford. Slovenia was part of Yugoslavia - the cold war is over. She was a high fashion model & is contributory to many charitable events. And she became a citizen LEGALLY.

Plus Reuters can't confirm this rumor that her father was a communist. They tried and failed. Her father was a salesman for a car dealership, then was promoted manager, and after the country's independence, he owned his own company, so he sure doesn't sound like a Communist. Her mother was a fashion designer, a business, and Melania studied architecture and then became a model with a agency, so none of them sound like Communists. I haven't read anything about her parents religion or lack thereof. But if she wants to be a traditional First Lady like Jackie Kennedy and Betty Ford, those are two very excellent First Ladies with excellent examples to follow. Personally, I would like to see the First Ladies spend more time in the White House with all the tours and people coming in, planning and hosting more wonderful events for Americans to enjoy and benefit from, and less time traveling the world at our expense.

I am glad everyone has made up their mind, but until I place my vote I am still going to continue to ask questions.

Originally Posted by MontereySherry

I am glad everyone has made up their mind, but until I place my vote I am still going to continue to ask questions.

I'm with you. If Cruz and Trump both have skin in the game when the primaries reach NC, I'm not sure who I'll vote for. Trump has me on trade, Cruz has me on social issues, and they're are both fairly even on immigration and border security (couldn't' squeeze a gnats butt between their differences). The problem I have with Trump that keeps Cruz in the game is his comments regarding an expedited return of the good illegals, a merit-based system that would allow some illegals to remain, and his comment about illegals needing a path. Those are amnesty comments and he has yet to walk them back! Cruz has come out and publicly stated that no deported illegal will return on his watch and he's proposed nothing that could even be remotely tied to amnesty.

For some like you and I, MontereySherry, our decision may not come until we're standing in line to vote and we shouldn't allow anyone to tell us there is anything wrong with that.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with that at all. You take all the time you need. If Sherry is in Calfornia, she has until June to decide.

I've heard more reliable rumors that Cruz's father was a Marxist. Rubio's father was not a political refugee from Cuba, what about him?

Originally Posted by pkskyali

I've heard more reliable rumors that Cruz's father was a Marxist. Rubio's father was not a political refugee from Cuba, what about him?

ActuallyCruz was not a political refugee from Cuba, he was an illegal alien from Cuba who bribed a Batista official for a student visa to attend the University of Texas long before we had a political refugee program from Cuba, even before Castro took over Cuba. Cruz's father roamed our country then Canada then back to the US for decades without ever becoming a US citizen. I'm not sure how this happens for a Cuban who chose to become a Canadian citizen in the 1970's during the Vietnam War.

According to Cruz, as a teenager, he "didn't know Castro was a Communist".[12][13][14] Cruz has stated in interviews that he fled Cuba at age 18 in 1957, after an attorney for the family bribed a Batista official to grant him an exit permit.[1][15][2] Cruz said he left with $100 sewn into his underwear before the Battle of Santa Clara, in which the revolution toppled Batista on January 1, 1959.

Cruz's father left Cuba 2 years before the revolution toppled Batista.

After Cruz graduated from the University of Texas in 1961, he was granted political asylum in the United States following the expiration of his student visa.[1] He became a Canadian citizen during his residence in Canada, returning to the United States with his family in the mid-'70s. Eleanor and Rafael Cruz divorced in 1997.[33] He renounced his Canadian citizenship and in 2005 became a naturalized U.S. citizen.[1][36]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafael_Bienvenido_Cruz

What takes someone from 1957 to 2005 to decide to become a US citizen? Were we too capitalist? Were we too free? Were we too tolerant? Were we too militaristic? What was the problem? Did he always want passports to other countries keeping one foot out of the door? Maybe 2 citizenships, Cuba and Canada?

Ted Cruz was raised by a father who took 48 years to decide to become a citizen of the United States, a nation that gave him a great education at the University of Texas, a nation that gave him a great job in the oil industry, a nation that gave him asylum after-the-fact, converting a student visa that derived from a fraud and a bribe into political asylum.

My opinion, the Cruz family has one interest, their own.