CNN Commentator Suggests Probing Trump Children’s Immigration Status

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…

Sandra Rhodes·Jul 3, 2025·3 min read

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CNN Commentator Suggests Probing Trump Children’s Immigration Status — IJR

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.