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02 February 2026

UPDATE: Melania opens to just 12 people in Times Square's busiest theater: 'It's not gripping' & Slovenian Sphinx Flick Nixed! &The Melania Movie Is an American Obscenity 31JAN&1FEB26


ALWAYS...., wait, NEVER a lady hure melania drumpf / trump

SHE is a shallow, no class soft porn fotze  ( VIDEO & ARTICLE: MELANIA THE MOVIE ( A MAGAT CULT CLASSIC ) to be released 30JAN26 ) & ( CONVICTED FELON & IMMIGRANT & Melania Trump’s racy girl-on-girl photoshoot pics revealed (NSFW) 12DEZ25 & 2AUG16 ) One comment in this article is that she seemed uncomfortable in front of the cameras. Maybe she was uncomfortable because she was told she had to keep her clothes on....click the links above to see "more" of drumpf's / trump's fascist fotze trunt. The film also fails to address melania's illegal immigration status as she was doing "soft" porn when her visa expired, as a child of an illegal immigrant barron drumpf / trump should also be considered illegal per his father, and she also brought her parents into the country using chain immigration, also opposed by NO MY pres drumpf / trump. This latest from Raw Story and the New York Times and Mother Jones.....

Melania opens to just 12 people in Times Square's busiest theater: 'It's not gripping'

In her documentary's opening, First Lady Melania Trump declares: "Everybody wants to know" how she spends her time.

It turns out that's far from true, The Guardian found.

The newspaper sent a writer to watch Melania at the busiest movie theater in Times Square Friday, the day of its release. He joined just 12 people in the audience. And they were far from blown away.

The poor turnout was reflected at theaters across the world, prompting studio executives to revise opening weekend projections downward for the project commissioned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. The billionaire spent $35 million to make the movie, and another $30 million to market it.

An AMC theater near Times Square, at least half of the 12 viewers were there for professional review purposes. Few attendees watched the film for personal interest.

Chase, one of the few civilian viewers, explained his attendance: "I just think it's really interesting to see, like, inside the life of somebody so famous. She's a private person. So I think it's interesting just to kind of see, you know, how her life really is, at least to some extent," he told The Guardian.

The 24-year-old independent voter continued: "I thought it was very good. She really portrayed things that I think the public didn't know prior about her. I found it really interesting. I would have come to watch if it was Jill Biden, whoever. I think it's just interesting to see."

Social media users shared screenshots from ticketing websites displaying empty theater schedules in Boston, Charleston, and other major cities. The financial outcome appears problematic for Amazon, though critics surmise that proximity to presidential favor may provide intangible benefits to Bezos.

Financial investment alone proved insufficient to create compelling content. Melania Trump presents as an uncomfortable onscreen subject, visibly uneasy before cameras, The Guardian reported. The documentary dedicates substantial runtime to Melania trying on clothing, with other sequences featuring Mar-a-Lago croquet scenes resembling retirement community activities.

Democrat Jim Behrle, who attended the screening anticipating entertainment value, stated: "I didn't dislike it as much as I thought I would. There was some interesting stuff in it. There were some interesting characters, and some of the footage is shot really well."

He elaborated: "There's not a lot of rising action in the film at all. I mean, there's not a lot of conflict or anything like that, but seeing some of the behind-the-scenes stuff is pretty interesting."

Behrle attended partly due to his monthly theater subscription, which provides unlimited screenings for $29. Despite moderate surprise at his tolerance for the film, he expressed reluctance to recommend it to friends and family, concluding: "It's not a gripping film."

Slovenian Sphinx Flick Nixed!

Jan. 31, 2026

Opinion Columnist, reporting from Washington

The riddle of the Slovenian Sphinx has been solved. The perennial question about what Melania Trump is really like, behind her exquisite mannequin’s mask, has been answered by her new infomercial, “Melania.” It turns out there is no riddle, no enigma, no mystery, no dark anguish.

Melania is not Rapunzel in the tower, pining to be saved from the ogre imprisoning her. She is comfortable in the frosty vertical solitude of the tower, swaddled in luxury.

Some theaters showing “Melania” were so empty that wags suggested that undocumented immigrants should hide out there. Reviews are brutal: The Independent said the first lady came across as “a preening, scowling void of pure nothingness in this ghastly bit of propaganda.” The Guardian dismissed the movie as “gilded trash,” and Variety asked, “Why would Amazon spend $75 million on a movie this boring?” (I think we all know the answer to that.)

But the portrait of “The Portrait,” as Melania was nicknamed by Ivanka, is revealing because it doesn’t reveal anything. We don’t even learn whether Melania’s feet ache after hours of wearing stilettos. (I picture her as having Barbie feet that cannot flatten.)

We knew everything we needed to know about her in the wake of Jan. 6. In the memoir of Stephanie Grisham, Melania’s former aide and confidante, Grisham told a chilling story about the chilly first lady. When the rioters broke through the barricades outside the Capitol, Grisham sent Melania a text: “Do you want to tweet that peaceful protests are the right of every American, but there is no place for lawlessness and violence?” Melania texted back simply “No.” She was busy getting ready for a photo shoot of a rug she had chosen for the White House.

Melania knows her deal with the author of “The Art of the Deal.” She seems to have no problem with his authoritarian ways. (She is something of an authoritarian herself when it comes to tailoring her inaugural outfits, supervising every scintilla of cloth.)

The president, who once dreamed of being a Hollywood macher, casts his cabinet based on who looks right for each part. He cast Melania as the alluring, supportive and often-silent wife. She accepts that role, and isn’t, as her movie claims, reinventing the role of first lady. The East Wing, until Trump tore it down, was her drop-by.

Over the years, liberals have fantasized that she was a secret member of the #resistance; that she was a phantom at the White House because she couldn’t stand to be around her husband; that one day the Slovenian immigrant would, as conjugal saboteur, renounce Trump’s harsh policies on immigration, castigating his betrayal of her with Stormy Daniels while Melania was pregnant, and denouncing his crude talk about women’s private parts and looks.

But stop waiting. She chose Brett Ratner, a director driven out of Hollywood after sexual assault and misconduct claims, to be her hagiographer. (Trump pressed the Paramount heads for a fourth installment of Ratner’s “Rush Hour,” and the Ellisons obeyed.) Ratner dwells salaciously on her five-inch stilettos, long legs, comely ankles and cascade of frosted hair.

Melania is where she wants to be, in the bosom of a corrupt family that is prostituting the People’s House. Following up her shady ventures into NFTs and a meme coin, the first lady got a windfall from Jeff Bezos, who certainly wanted to curry favor with her husband. Bezos’ Amazon MGM studio made her movie, providing a whopping $40 million for the film and another $35 million for marketing. The Wall Street Journal reported that Melania’s cut of the $40 million was at least $28 million.

This is particularly gross given that Amazon is engaged in mass layoffs and Bezos seems intent on starving his Washington Post of money and talent. The split screen of Bezos and his spendthrift wife, Lauren Sánchez, frolicking everywhere — including Paris fashion week — while the tech mogul defiles the crown jewel nurtured by Ben Bradlee and Kay Graham, is sickening.

Speaking of sickening, in a 2002 email from the newly released Epstein files that The Times said is from a “Melania” and appears to be written to Ghislaine Maxwell, “Melania” praises a profile of Jeffrey Epstein in New York magazine and says of Ghislaine, “You look great on the picture.” Ghislaine calls “Melania” “Sweet pea” and “Melania” signs her email “Love.”

The “documentary” features a candlelight dinner the night before Trump’s second inauguration, where all the tech moguls who lavished him with money and gold gifts are partying at the National Building Museum — including Bezos, with Sánchez, and Elon Musk, with his date on his lap.

In a voice-over, Melania talks about her “creative vision” coming to life in the room “filled with the elegance and sophistication of our donors. They’re truly the driving force behind the campaign and its philosophy and the reason our victory is possible.”

Thanks, Bezos, Musk, Tim Cook, Sam Altman and Mark Zuckerberg!

Melania had editorial control over the movie, which covers the 20 days before the 2025 inauguration. There’s a scene where Melania is proud to have persuaded her husband to proclaim in his Inaugural Address that he’s going to be “a unifier.” She seems oblivious to the fact that his rhetoric and policies are designed to enrage and divide.

She and her son, Barron, do not want to get out of the limo during the inaugural parade, and she keens about political violence, again without acknowledging that her husband has been provoking violence since he and Melania rode down his golden escalator.

She has a warm chat about her immigrant roots with a designer who is an immigrant from Laos, ignoring that her husband has torn America apart by denigrating immigrants and unleashing a rabid force of ICE agents on American cities. (Now, Trump has restricted visas from 75 countries, including Laos.)

Melania, the movie star, lives up to the message on the infamous jacket she wore to a migrant child detention center: “I really don’t care. Do U?” It turns out she does care — for herself.


More from Maureen Dowd on Melania Trump

Maureen Dowd is an Opinion columnist for The Times. She won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for distinguished commentary. She is the author, most recently, of “Notorious.” @MaureenDowd • Facebook

A version of this article appears in print on Feb. 1, 2026, Section SR, Page 3 of the New York edition with the headline: Slovenian Sphinx’s Flick Nixed!

The Melania Movie Is an American Obscenity

Even in the Trumpian corner of New Jersey, where I chose to witness Melania, the $75 million Amazon-produced film about the first lady, I predicted that I would be watching alone. This is, after all, a historically bad time for theatrical releases, and initial forecasts for Melania‘s opening weekend had been dismal. Yet there they were, at least a dozen attendees at a 10 a.m. screening on a frigid Saturday morning. I appeared to be the only one who required breakfast wine for what was about to unfold.

What flashed across the screen over the next hour and 48 minutes can best be described as an interminable slog of airbrushed nothingness. After all, only so much entertainment can be wrung out of footage of a woman in snakeskin Louboutins traveling from Mar-a-Lago to New York and back again in the lead-up to the inauguration. And yet, for nearly two hours, the film turns on the premise that its subject is some kind of fashion genius, resulting in some of the most stultifying scenes I have ever seen committed to film. What other way is there to describe extended, drawn-out shows of Melania getting fitted for her inauguration wardrobe, only to be followed by scenes of her walking across gilded ballrooms in that very wardrobe? A few other pre-inauguration scenes follow, including a meeting between Melania and Brigitte Macron over Zoom. But they all appear brief, choreographed, and wooden. Throughout, Melania claims to have a leading role in the preparations for her husband’s inauguration, but there is scant evidence of actual decision-making by the first lady.

What an obscenity to hear this woman employ the language of shared humanity, as the Trump administration kills Americans and systematically kidnaps immigrants and their kids.

But Melania is more revelatory in its world-historical vapidness than it might seem. Consider that Melania appears to go out of her way to foreground her journey from Slovenian immigrant to American first lady, a story she says serves as “a reminder of why I respect this nation so deeply.” Similarly, the film gives rare space to the immigrants in Melania’s inner circle, including her chief interior designer, Tham Kannalikham, who opens up about her journey from Laos to now decorating the White House, as well as Melania’s father, who is seen beaming with pride in his American daughter. Absent in Viktor Knavs’ film debut is the context of the “chain migration” pathway through which he and his late wife became US citizens, the very same policy targeted by their son-in-law.


Melania Trump with her husband at the premiere of her doc.

Graeme Sloan/AP

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Even in the Trumpian corner of New Jersey, where I chose to witness Melania, the $75 million Amazon-produced film about the first lady, I predicted that I would be watching alone. This is, after all, a historically bad time for theatrical releases, and initial forecasts for Melania‘s opening weekend had been dismal. Yet there they were, at least a dozen attendees at a 10 a.m. screening on a frigid Saturday morning. I appeared to be the only one who required breakfast wine for what was about to unfold.

What flashed across the screen over the next hour and 48 minutes can best be described as an interminable slog of airbrushed nothingness. After all, only so much entertainment can be wrung out of footage of a woman in snakeskin Louboutins traveling from Mar-a-Lago to New York and back again in the lead-up to the inauguration. And yet, for nearly two hours, the film turns on the premise that its subject is some kind of fashion genius, resulting in some of the most stultifying scenes I have ever seen committed to film. What other way is there to describe extended, drawn-out shows of Melania getting fitted for her inauguration wardrobe, only to be followed by scenes of her walking across gilded ballrooms in that very wardrobe? A few other pre-inauguration scenes follow, including a meeting between Melania and Brigitte Macron over Zoom. But they all appear brief, choreographed, and wooden. Throughout, Melania claims to have a leading role in the preparations for her husband’s inauguration, but there is scant evidence of actual decision-making by the first lady.

What an obscenity to hear this woman employ the language of shared humanity, as the Trump administration kills Americans and systematically kidnaps immigrants and their kids.

But Melania is more revelatory in its world-historical vapidness than it might seem. Consider that Melania appears to go out of her way to foreground her journey from Slovenian immigrant to American first lady, a story she says serves as “a reminder of why I respect this nation so deeply.” Similarly, the film gives rare space to the immigrants in Melania’s inner circle, including her chief interior designer, Tham Kannalikham, who opens up about her journey from Laos to now decorating the White House, as well as Melania’s father, who is seen beaming with pride in his American daughter. Absent in Viktor Knavs’ film debut is the context of the “chain migration” pathway through which he and his late wife became US citizens, the very same policy targeted by their son-in-law.

“Everyone should do what they can to protect our individual rights,” Melania says at one point. “Never take them for granted, because in the end, no matter where we come from, we are bound by the same humanity.”

What an obscenity to hear this woman employ the language of shared humanity, as the Trump administration kills Americans and systematically kidnaps immigrants and their children. But as galling as they were, the remarks were instructive of both how Melania views her American story and the same anti-immigrant sentiments with which some, in order to prove that they belong here, yank the ladder up from newcomers seeking the same opportunities. Such immigrants, like Melania, cast themselves as the “good immigrant” who came here the “right way.” But the first lady appears to do this despite reports, including our own, that she may have initially been working here without a visa. In other words, she may have violated immigration law. Meanwhile, the immigrants Melania now surrounds herself with, like Tham, are props for that very narrative—with zero mention of her husband’s endless cruelty. But why would there be in a piece of abject propaganda—backed by one of the richest men in the world as he prepares to gut the Washington Post—that many crew members asked not to be credited on?

As a purely cinematic experience, Melania, a ghastly parade of fun-house mirror herstory, will certainly be relegated to the footnotes of her family’s deeper atrocities. I would have asked what my fellow attendees thought, but not even a plastic cup of wine could help wash down the film in its entirety. I left 15 minutes before the credits rolled in, incomplete as they were.

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29 January 2018

Do immigrants cost U.S. taxpayers $300 billion annually? & Donald Trump’s unsubstantiated claims about chain migration, NYC terror suspect 23&24JAN18


 CONTINUING their campaign to make America White again NOT MY pres drumpf/trump is spreading these falsehoods with the help of his fascist administration and supporters to keep the home fires of ignorance, bigotry, racism and xenophobia burning. From PolitiFact, and here is the link to PolitiFact's articles on immigration.......

Do immigrants cost U.S. taxpayers $300 billion annually?



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Donald Trump
President of the United States
"Current immigration policy imposes as much as $300 billion annually in net fiscal costs on U.S. taxpayers."
    President Donald Trump wants immigrants to come based on skills, not family ties, so he’s pushing to limit the number of relatives lawful permanent residents can petition to join them in the United States.

    A page on the White House website argues so-called "chain migration" is bad for the U.S. economy.
    "There is general agreement amongst immigration experts that low-skilled migrants create a net fiscal deficit, creating more in government expenditures than they pay in taxes. According to one study, current immigration policy imposes as much as $300 billion annually in net fiscal costs on U.S. taxpayers," said one of the graphics posted Dec. 15.
    Graphic posted on WhiteHouse.gov
    The economic impact of immigration is widely debated, but PolitiFact decided to take a closer look at the $300 billion figure.
    Trump’s team highlighted a September 2016 Washington Times story headlined: "Mass immigration costs government $296 billion a year, depresses wages." It reported on a study from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine on the economic and fiscal consequences of immigration.
    A consultant who contributed to the report told us that in 2013 the total fiscal burden -- average outlays minus average receipts multipled by 55.5 million individuals -- was $279 billion for the first generation of immigrants. But making a conclusion on that one figure is a mighty case of cherry-picking.
    Economic and fiscal consequences report
    The National Academies found that first-generation immigrants (who were born outside of the United States) cost governments more money than the native-born population. The costs are largely taken on by state and local governments that educate the immigrants’ children.
    But members of the second generation "are among the strongest economic and fiscal contributors in the U.S. population," the report said, with tax contributions greater than their parents and the native-born population.
    In the long term, the immigrant impact is "generally positive" at the federal level but remains negative at state and local levels, varying significantly across states.
    "To characterize that one number as the cost to current native-born taxpayers, is absolutely a case of cherry-picking one result out of a very detailed report," said Gretchen Donehower, an academic specialist at the University of California at Berkeley and consultant who contributed to the report.
    Donehower gave us three caveats to the White House’s message:
    The government runs on a deficit, so on average, taxpayers, including the native-born, benefit more than they pay in taxes. While members of the first, second, and third generations on average all cost more than they pay, we are all pushing a substantial amount of debt onto future generations — and immigrants and their descendants will also be "on the hook" for that debt.
    Some costs won’t go away even if immigrants do. If all of the first-generation immigrants suddenly left the country, the government wouldn’t immediately have its expense burden reduced by $279 billion. Calculations in the study included defense costs and interest on the existing public debt, which would not go down without the 55.5 million immigrants. If those costs were excluded, the total fiscal burden for the first generation and dependents would go down to $43 billion, and the per capita burden would be more for the native-born population than for the first-generation immigrants.
    The overall effect of immigration on economic growth was positive.Whatever costs immigrants might present now will be "paid back" by overall economic growth that will lead to more tax revenue on average for the government and less demand for need-based benefit programs. "The $279 billion calculation does not include any estimate of this effect and so is an upper bound on total fiscal impact," Donehower said.
    The study analyzed fiscal impacts using assumptions under different scenarios, which led to varying outcomes, said Chris Mackie, a study director with the Committee on National Statistics at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
    The $279 billion impact stems from the combination of worst-case assumptions, he said. Under other assumptions, the fiscal burden was $43 billion.
    The point is that these numbers are estimates and depend on various factors, including immigrants’ age, education and timeframe examined.
    The study also said the historical record suggests that the total net fiscal impact of immigrants across all levels of government has become more positive over time.
    "The evidence does not suggest that current immigrant flows cost native-born taxpayers money over the long-run nor does it provide support for the notion that lowering immigration quotas or stepping up enforcement of existing immigration laws would generate savings to existing taxpayers," said a post on Econofact co-authored by Donehower and Francine Blau, an economics professor at Cornell University who chaired the panel that released the report.
    The claim from the White House shows "a pretty misleading reading of the study," said Margaret Peters, an assistant professor of political science at the University of California-Los Angeles.
    "While the first generation does impose fiscal costs, those costs are more than made up for at the federal level by the second generation (the children of immigrants)," Peters said. "On the state level, it is true that immigrants impose more of a burden in large part because they have children who go to school and states don't always recoup the costs of schooling."
    David Dyssegaard Kallick, director of immigration research at the Fiscal Policy Institute, said, "This is just sophistry."
    Since the United States has been running a deficit for years, "by definition, all Americans have a bigger net cost than contribution — first-generation immigrants, second-generation immigrants, and those of us who have been here for three or more generations," he said. "That’s a failure of tax policy, not a story about immigrants."
    Our ruling
    The White House claimed that "current immigration policy imposes as much as $300 billion annually in net fiscal costs on U.S. taxpayers."
    A study from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine analyzed the fiscal impact of immigration under different scenarios. Under some assumptions, the fiscal burden was $279 billion, but $43 billion in other scenarios.
    The report also found that U.S.-born children with at least one foreign-born parent are among the strongest economic and fiscal contributors, thanks in part to the spending by local governments on their education.
    The statement is partially accurate but leaves out important details. We rate it Half True.

    About this statement:

    Published: Tuesday, January 23rd, 2018 at 11:00 a.m.
    Researched by: Miriam Valverde
    Edited by: Katie Sanders
    Subjects: Economy, Immigration

    Sources:

    White House, It’s Time To End Chain Migration, Dec. 15, 2017
    Email exchange, White House press office, Jan. 2, 2018
    National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Press release on study of immigration’s economic and fiscal impacts, Sept. 21, 2016
    Email interview, David Dyssegaard Kallick, director of immigration research at the Fiscal Policy Institute, Jan. 19, 2018
    Email interview, Chris Mackie, a study director with the Committee on National Statistics at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Jan. 10, 2018
    Email interview, Gretchen Donehower, an academic specialist at the University of California at Berkeley, Jan. 13, 2018
    Email interview, Margaret Peters, an assistant professor of political science at the University of California-Los Angeles, Jan. 11, 2018
    By Miriam Valverde 

    President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed that more than 20 people have migrated to the United States due to family ties to a terror attack suspect.
    A man drove a truck onto a bike lane and pedestrian walkway in Manhattan on Oct. 31, killing eight people and injuring 12 others. The suspect, Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov, is an Uzbek national whom Trump has singled out as a reason why "chain migration" and a visa lottery program should end.
    "This man that came in — or whatever you want to call him — brought in, with him, other people … He was the point of contact — the primary point of contact for — and this is preliminarily — 23 people that came in, or potentially came in with him. And that’s not acceptable. So we want to get rid of chain migration, and we’ve wanted to do that for a long time," Trump said Nov. 1.
    Trump offered a lower number as he discussed the terror suspect with the Wall Street Journal on Jan. 11: "So the lottery has to end, chain migration — he brought in, they say, 22 people through the chain. So we have 22 of his relatives, why?"
    Two days earlier during a meeting on immigration with bipartisan lawmakers, Trump said it was "22 to 24 people came in through him."
    We wondered if Trump was right: have at least 22 people come to the United States due to familial links to Saipov?
    Neither the White House nor the Department of Homeland Security provided information to substantiate Trump’s claims. A State Department spokesperson told us that visa records are confidential under immigration law, preventing comment on the details of individual visa cases.
    Experts told us Trump’s figures are improbable.
    Green card holders have limits on family sponsorship
    Saipov, from Uzbekistan, entered the United States in 2010 through the diversity visa lottery program, which admits up to 50,000 people per year from countries with low levels of immigration to the United States.
    Applicants for the diversity program are able to include in their application their spouse and unmarried children under 21 years old.
    That is not what happened with Saipov, who arrived in 2010. Multiple news outletsreported that Saipov got married in the United States in 2013 to a woman who already lived here, also an Uzbek national. Their three children were all born in the United States. The family lived in Paterson, N.J.
    "Unless Saipov had 22 unmarried, under-age-21 children at the time he came here, President Trump's statement that Saipov brought 22 people with him is clearly false," said Stephen H. Legomsky, an emeritus professor at the Washington University School of Law in St. Louis who served as chief counsel of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services from 2011 to 2013.
    Once in the United States, green card holders, such as Saipov, are only able to petition their spouse and unmarried children.
    We have not seen any reports of 29-year-old Saipov fathering more than 20 kids before he left Uzbekistan and petitioning for them to come to the United States since his arrival.
    Generally, is it possible for one green card holder to bring in 22 or more relatives?
    "It may be possible, but it’s very unlikely," said Julia Gelatt, a senior policy analyst at the Migration Policy Institute working with the U.S. Immigration Policy Program. "Theoretically, if someone had many foreign-born children, and those children had many children, they could sponsor one spouse, plus 21 children and grandchildren. The grandchildren would come as derivatives of their children."
    But that would be far above the average rate of family sponsorship, Gelatt said.
    A 2013 study found that overall, each new immigrant sponsored an average of 3.45 family members.
    As the New York Times and Washington Post’s Fact Checker have noted, if Saipov were a U.S. citizen (he's not) he could have petitioned his parents and three sisters to join him. There's no waiting period for parents, but brothers and sisters of adult U.S. citizens fall under a "fourth-preference" immigration category. As of Nov. 1, 2017, there were 2.3 million people in that category waiting for a visa, with a waiting period of over 13 years.
    The categories of family members that can be petitioned for admission are greater for U.S. citizens, who can additionally bring in parents, siblings, and married sons and daughters and their spouses and children. U.S. citizens can also petition a fiance(e) to come on a visa, and eventually file for a green card after marriage.
    Another immigrant accused of a separate attack, Akayed Ullah, "benefited from extended family chain migration" when he came to the United States from Bangladesh in 2011, DHS said. Ullah, accused of setting of a pipe bomb inside a New York City subway terminal, is also a green card holder.
    The department did not describe Saipov as having "extended family chain migration."
    Our ruling
    Trump said that "22 to 24 people" came into the United States due to family connection with the suspect in the October 2017 New York City terror attack.
    The Trump administration did not provide any information to support this repeated claim about Saipov.
    Green card holders, such as Saipov, can only petition for a spouse and unmarried children to come to the United States. Media reports indicate that Saipov married a woman who already lived in the United States and that their three children were born in the United States.
    Saipov could not have petitioned parents or siblings in his current immigration status.
    Without evidence to support it, we rate Trump's claim False.

    About this statement:

    Published: Wednesday, January 24th, 2018 at 12:00 p.m.
    Researched by: Miriam Valverde
    Edited by: Katie Sanders
    Subjects: Immigration

    Sources:

    Twitter, @realdonaldtrump tweet, Nov. 1, 2017
    The Wall Street Journal, Transcript of Donald Trump Interview With The Wall Street Journal, updated Jan. 14, 2018
    Email exchange, White House press office, Jan. 18, 2018
    Email exchange, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services press office, Jan. 18, 2018
    Email exchange, U.S. State Department press office, Jan. 23, 2018
    CNN Transcripts, Bipartisan Immigration Bill Roundtable, Jan. 9, 2018
    PolitiFact, "Is diversity visa program a 'Schumer beauty,' " as Donald Trump says?, Nov. 1, 2017
    Email interview, Stephen H. Legomsky, an emeritus professor at the Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, Jan. 23, 2018
    Email interview, Julia Gelatt, a senior policy analyst at the Migration Policy Institute working with the U.S. Immigration Policy Program, Jan. 23, 2018
    U.S. State Department, Instructions for the 2019 Diversity Immigrant Visa Program (Dv-2019), accessed Jan. 23, 2018
    Twitter, @spoxdhs tweet, Dec. 11, 2017
    National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine, Family Sponsorship and Late-Age Immigration in Aging America: Revised and Expanded Estimates of Chained Migration
    Cincinnati.com, NYC terror suspect Sayfullo Saipov briefly lived in Cincinnati suburb, registered a business here, published Oct. 31, 2017, updated Nov. 1, 2017
    U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, information on family petitioning for U.S. citizens