Rep. Maxine Waters participates in a march in Los Angeles on Saturday, March 22, 2025. (Christina House/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
The first lady sponsored her parents, who were also from current-day Slovenia, for green cards and then citizenship after securing her own citizenship, the New York Times reported in 2018. Viktor and Amalija Knavs, the first lady's parents, officially became U.S. citizens in 2018. Amalija Knavs died in 2024, while her father Viktor Knavs has been spotted with the Trump family during public events in recent months, including sitting next to first son Barron Trump during the inauguration.
Viktor and Amalija Knavs, the parents of first lady Melania Trump, depart the White House on Nov. 26, 2019. (Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)
The Trump EO seeks to narrow the scope of birthright citizenship to ban individuals who were born to illegal immigrant parents, or those who were here legally but on temporary non-immigrant visas.
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The executive order is currently tied up in court, with Trump taking the case to the U.S. Supreme Court last week.
Rep. Maxine Waters speaks to a crowd during a rally outside of the Wilshire Federal Building in Westwood on Saturday, March 22, 2025. (Christina House/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
"We are here because we are not going to let Trump, we’re not going to let Elon Musk, his co-president, or anybody else take the United States Constitution down," Waters added in her address to the crowd on Saturday.
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Clips of Waters' comments on the first lady are spreading like wildfire on social media, including on TikTok and X, as conservative critics slam the left-wing California lawmaker.
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Fox News Digital reached out to Waters' office for additional comment on the matter Tuesday morning, but did not immediately receive a reply.
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