2025 In July The rumor distributed on the Internet said that a person or group of people asked US President Donald Trump to deport his wife Melania Trump, who was born in Slovenia and in 2006. In July Received US citizenship. Many users shared this rumor with the headline: “Donald Trump is now asking for his wife.”
For example, July 15 Tiktok user posted a short video (archived) advertising this rumor. This clip, with over 3.1 million views and 629,000 trusted, showed the headline: “Donald Trump is now asked to deport his wife. He says he will not because he is a family. The video does not specify who asked Melania Trump deportation.
This statement is also distributed in other videos on Facebook, Instagram (Archived), Tik (Archived) and X (Archive), including some vaguely commemorating “virus petition with thousands of signatures”. Some clips featured non -authentic images, as well as Deepfake images and artificial intelligence sound, allegedly depicting Donald Trump and Melania short responsive to rumor.
Based on the search for Bing, Duckduckgo, Google and Yahoo, the rumor did not rise with any government, judge, other official or legislative procedure or requested for a short request to deport his wife, but instead of how some videos were presented. From July 18 This petition started on January 24th. And was held on Moveon.org, a progressive policy site, showed more than 12,700 signatures aimed at 15,000. This goal has increased in recent weeks, indicating that its organizer has sought to constantly raise the desired number of signatures.
The title of Petition, who wrote the name of Barron Trump wrong – the only child the president had with Melania Trump – “Deport Melania, Melania Parents and Baron in the first round of deportations!” The Petition’s organizer presented several points, including the true desire of Trump’s administration to denaturalize some citizens, misleading Barron Trump’s pejorative term “anchor baby” and falsely claiming that the documents or legislation demand that the mother of the person’s mother born in the US, born in the US.
The petition also provided a refusal of responsibility at the top of the page, reading:
Moveon volunteers have reviewed this petition and found that it may either not reflect the progressive values of the Moveon members, or that Moveon members may disagree or support this petition. The Moveon will not be advertised by petitions, not just hosting it on our site.
Snopes contacted the White House Press Service and First Lady representative, asking if they wanted to share a statement by responding to the existence of the petition, including videos. The White House spokesman only replied, “It’s obviously fake,” no longer explaining what they called “fake”. We also contacted the Moveon.org email. By email to ask why they have shown a refusal disapproval of the petition and will update this story if we receive more information.
Trump focuses on the denaturalization of some citizens
The first part of the petition correctly paid attention to the goal of the Trump administration to deport some naturalized citizens. July 7 Miami Herald reported the priority of the administration’s plans for a certain case of denotivastralization:
The President has now pointed out to the Department of Justice to strengthen his resources in a major coping with naturalized citizens suspected of illegally acquiring US citizenship.
According to the latest memorandum, the department plans to focus not only on persons who may have lied for a crime or committed something unlawful during the naturalization process. However, the authorities also plan to focus on others who may have committed a crime after becoming citizens – usually untested legal border.
On the Justice Department’s website is the memorandum whose relevant section begins on page 3 titled “Determination of Dentalization Priorities”. In addition to persons who have “illegally acquired” naturalization or acquired naturalization, “hiding a fundamental fact or intentional misrepresentation”, the memorandum also mentions many different types of cases and crimes that meet the standardization of priority.
The statement of Barron Trump and Mother’s Mother
It is also stated in the petition by misrepresenting Barron Trump’s name “The Melania anchor Baby Baron should also be forced to leave because we know that his mother was born in another country. This is part of the criteria that Trump sets. Your mother’s mother must be born in the US, and we know that Melania’s mother was born elsewhere.“
This chapter noted Barron Trump with the pejorative term “Anchor Baby”. The Cambridge Dictionary describes (archived) an “anchor baby” as a “offensive term for a baby born in a country that is born there is a law of citizenship, but whose parents are not citizens and have no right to live there.” That the term is used to it accuse parents Use a tiny as a way to get nationality to yourself. “The use of a petition due to the term supposedly Melania Trump bore Barron to help herself accept US citizenship.
But as PBS reportedMelania Trump received her green card by determining her legal status of a permanent resident, in 2001-Fifer a year before Barron’s birth in 2006. March She became a citizen in 2006. In July Facts verification examines the subject related to this issue.
We have not found any formal documents or legislation that requires the person’s “mother’s mother” to be born in the US, from January, in a short executive order directed at some aspects of first-born citizenship-the 14th amendment to the “mother’s mother” who needs to be born in the country. Instead, the policy he offers is seeking Deny citizenship For babies born to parents living in the US illegally or temporarily:
Sec. 2. Politics. (a) The United States’ policy is that the presence of a person in the US was legitimate but temporary, and the person’s father was not a US citizen or a legitimate permanent resident at the time of the said person.
This policy, if the government accepted it before the birth of Barron, would not have influenced its automatic citizenship established in the 14th amendment.
When it comes to petition melania Trump’s birth theme parentsVictor and Amalia KnavsThe New York Times reported They received US citizenship through a family immigration program, sometimes called “chain migration”-Politics Donald Trump has repeatedly despised.
For further reading, Snopes has previously announced the claim that Melania Trump had not properly arrived in the US ECTEin visa.
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