In the Knavses’ case, Mrs. Trump, who became a citizen in 2006 after obtaining a green card, would have sponsored them. “It would be odd if she sponsored her parents and didn’t want to talk about that because it’s a fairly routine thing,” said Hiroshi Motomura, a law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, who specializes in immigration law. Questions about their immigration status were raised in recent months as the administration emphasized stricter immigration reform. Mr. Trump has also criticized the diversity lottery, which allows admission to immigrants from countries that do not send many people to the United States. “Under the current broken system, a single immigrant can bring in virtually unlimited numbers of distant relatives,” he said.

Source: New York Times February 22, 2018 01:30 UTC