A CNN political commentator thinks an investigation should be launched into the citizenship status of four of President Donald Trump’s five children.
Bakari Sellers spoke about the Trump administration’s deportation policies while on a panel on “CNN NewsNight with Abby Phillip.” The topic was the administration revoke the citizenship of naturalized Americans who commit crimes, per Fox News.
Discussion turned to a June 11 memo by the Justice Department. The memo told U.S. attorneys to “prioritize and maximally pursue denaturalization proceedings” in the name of addressing crime.
Sellers said that instead of not giving immigrants “the benefit of their humanity,” the focus should be on the legal status of Trump’s children.
“Look, if we want to have a conversation about who belongs where, when, how, and whether or not their citizenship status- and we want to look at everything, I mean, I would look at Donald Trump Jr.,” Sellers said. “I would look at all of Melania‘s kids, all of Ivana‘s kids. I mean, let‘s just have a full conversation over who belongs here, how did they get here, their citizenship status.”
“Let‘s just have a full discussion about all of it. Why is that not on the table right now? I mean, the only person here should be Tiffany Trump, if we‘re going to have this discussion,” he added.
Trump’s first wife, Ivana Trump, was born in the Czech Republic. The mother of Eric, Ivanka and Donald Jr. became a U.S citizen in 1988. Melania Trump, his third wife and current first lady, was born in Slovenia and is Barron’s mother. She became a U.S. citizen in 2006.
Marla Maples, Trump’s second wife and mother to Tiffany, was born in the U.S. as were all of Trump’s children.
Assistant Attorney General Brett Shumate wrote the memo and said denaturalization cases against “individuals who pose a potential danger to national security, including those with a nexus to terrorism, espionage, or the unlawful export from the United States of sensitive goods, technology, or information raising national security concerns” are a priority.
“The benefits of civil denaturalization include the government’s ability to revoke the citizenship of individuals who engaged in the commission of war crimes, extrajudicial killings, or other serious human rights abuses; to remove naturalized criminals, gang members, or, indeed, any individuals convicted of crimes who pose an ongoing threat to the United States; and to prevent convicted terrorists from returning to U.S. soil or traveling internationally on a U.S. passport,” Shumate wrote in the memo.
