Donald Trump's Immigrant Mother And Wives

Donald Trump, who has a lot to say against immigrants, has been in relationships with immigrants throughout his life, according to cnn.

"My mother was born in Scotland, in the Hebrides, in Stornoway, so that's serious Scotland. And she was a great woman," Trump said in a 2010 documentary. "Whenever anything was on about, ceremonial about the Queen she could sit at the television and just watch it. She had great respect for the Queen and for everything (she) represents"

His earlier wife came to America in 1930, an 18-year-old Mary MacLeod who hailed from Glasgow and married Fred Trump, who was the son of German immigrants.

"My grandfather Frederick Trump came to the United States in 1885. He joined the great gold rush and instead of gold he decided to open up some hotels in Alaska. He did fantastically well. He loved this country, likewise my father and now me," Trump said in a taped message for a German-American pride parade a few years ago.

However, he has been trying to project himself of late as a sone of the soil, a nativist, rather than the son and grandson of immigrants.

Last year, he addressed a meeting of conservative activists, explaining clearly that the 11 million undocumented immigrants in the US would never vote for Republicans.

"You'd better be smart and you'd better be tough," Trump said. "They're taking your jobs, and you'd better be careful."

His current wife, Melania Trump, also moved into New York 20 years ago. She is a Slovenian born model who has her own jewelry and "caviar-cream skincare lines". In 2005, she married him in a gown that cost $100,000. It was only in the following year that she became a citizen---one decade after her arrival.

"She went through a long process to become a citizen. It was very tough," Trump told CNN recently, adding that Melania agrees with his immigration position. "When she got it, she was very proud of it. She came from Europe, and she was very, very proud of it. And she thinks it's a beautiful process when it works."

His first wife, Ivana, was also an immigrant who had come from Czechoslovakia, and got wedded to an Austrian ski instructor so that she could leave her communist country. She married Trump in 1977, but got her American citizenship only after another 11 years.

Trumps's immigration plan seems to be asking foreign workers to leave the way open for the domestically unemployed.

"You have a border, you have a country, and if you don't have a border what are we?" Trump asked before answering himself. "Just a -- just a nothing. A nothing."

So far, he has celebrated his immigrant roots, but on his campaign, he makes no bones about his loyalties. "We're building a wall. It's going to be a wall that is not -- nobody's going through my wall," Trump has said. "Trump builds walls. I build walls."