Immigrants Welcome First Lady!

Her words to Washington: Reach across the Aisle, Solve Problems

On her trip to Texas, the First Lady of the United States reportedly “visited three classrooms.”  In each one she asked the children “where they came from, what were their ages, how long had they been at the center, and what were their favorite subjects.” 

The students had signed and posted a large replica of the United States flag reading “Welcome, First Lady!”  Graciously, the Slovenia-born U.S. First Lady signed the flag and returned it as her gift to the students.

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t is my hope,” Melania Trump said, “that Members of Congress will finally reach across the aisle and work together to solve this problem with common sense immigration reform that secures our borders and keeps families together.”

She said spending time with the children “reinforces the fact that these kids are in this situation as a direct result of adult actions.”

In meetings with “staff and federal health and border patrol officials,” the First Lady reportedly asked “how often (children) communicate with their families” and “how she could help ‘these children to reunite with their families as quickly as possible.’”

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.S. First Lady Melania Trump (briefly)

Born Melanija Knavs in Novo Mesto, raised in Sevnica in the Yugoslav Republic of Slovenia; became a permanent U.S. resident in 2001 and a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2006.

Besides a modeling career, Melania Trump has studied design, photography, architecture and design. English is Melania Knauss Trump’s third language. She also speaks Slovene, her native language, and Serbo-Croatian. Among the charities she has supported are the Martha Graham Dance Company, the Boys Club of New York, the American Red Cross, and the Police Athletic League.

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irst Lady’s birthplace

Novo Mesto is a city on a bend of the Krka River in the City Municipality of Novo Mesto in southeastern Slovenia near the border with Croatia; Sevnica, a town on the left bank of the Sava River in central Slovenia, old town lying beneath Sevnica Castle.

At the crossroads of main European cultural and trade routes, the central European country of Slovenia (Republic of Slovenia) borders Italy (west), Austria (north), Hungary (northeast), Croatia (southeast), and the Adriatic Sea (southwest).

Sources

Providence Journal “First Lady visits migrant children housed in Texas” by Darlene Superville   Catherine Lucey in Washington The Associated Press June 21, 2018 http://www.providencejournal.com/news/20180621/first-lady-visits-migrant-children-housed-in-texas

Star Tribune Associated Press McAllen, Texas “First lady visits migrant children housed in Texas” by Darlene Superville— “Melania Trump visited with migrant children Thursday during a brief stop at a Texas facility housing some of the youth separated from their parents as [the Trump administration] prosecutes adults who enter the U.S. illegally from Mexico”  June 21, 2018 http://www.startribune.com/first-lady-visits-migrant-children-at-texas-detention-center/486166351/

Wikipedia

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

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

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

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

Insight Beyond Today’s News, CLB