As Democrats once again target Melania Trump, cracks are starting to show in the facade of the party's immigrant-friendly image.
California Democrat Maxine Waters (D) launched a recent baseless attack on Melania's citizenship, suggesting she obtained it through "undocumented" parents.
Some Democrats have similarly invoked Elon Musk's South African heritage to draw a fanciful connection between apartheid and Trump's "fascism," Fox News noted.
It goes without saying that these attacks are not just hateful, but incoherent and stupid.
Waters, speaking at a recent protest against Musk's DOGE initiative, accused First Lady Melania Trump of obtaining citizenship through "undocumented" parents.
"We don't know whether or not her parents were documented. And maybe we better just take a look," Waters said.
While Waters was trying to make a point about President Trump's efforts to end birthright citizenship, Melania was not born on U.S. soil. She became a naturalized citizen in 2006.
"When he [Trump] talks about birthright, and he's going to undo the fact that the Constitution allows those who are born here, even if the parents are undocumented, they have a right to stay in America. If he wants to start looking so closely to find those who were born here and their parents were undocumented, maybe he ought to first look at Melania," Waters said.
Meanwhile, Musk has been at the center of controversy in the early weeks of Trump's second term.
It would be an understatement to say that Musk's role as head of DOGE has led to some hyperbolic outbursts (as well as thuggish violence.) While Democrats accuse Trump and Musk of advancing an autocratic agenda, some have gone a step further by invoking South Africa's history of apartheid.
"I think that’s a leftover from Elon Musk’s South African heritage, and maybe he’s falling too far back on the apartheid system of government that was a fascist form of government," said Rep. Gerry Connolly D (Va.) said in February.
"Here in the United States, Mr. Musk," he added, "we have three branches of government, each of them separate but coequal, and, ultimately, the judicial branch is the deciding factor when there is a dispute between the other two branches of government. That’s how our system works here."
Democrats are offering a reminder that their openness to immigration only extends to their perceived political allies. While they have embraced mass immigration as a strategy to get votes, they have no problem finding specific people of foreign extraction to hate.
