Posted on 01/12/2018 10:47:51 AM PST by mikelets456
Here's what Donald Trump has to say about low-wage immigrants on his website: "The influx of foreign workers holds down salaries, keeps unemployment high… We need to control the admission of new low-earning workers."
00:00 00:00 What Trump doesn't say, however, is that his own mother would once have fit into that category. When Mary Anne Macleod, who later gave birth to The Donald, first emigrated to the U.S. from Scotland at age 18, she came with only $50 in her possession and a job as a domestic servant.
The new details about Macleod's journey to the U.S. were brought to light by the Scottish newspaper The National this weekend, and are confirmed by public records from Ellis Island. They suggest that the story Trump has told about his mother in the past—that she came over to the U.S. on vacation and fell in love with Fred Trump, Donald's real-estate magnate father—isn't quite true.
(Excerpt) Read more at splinternews.com ...
Scotland wasn’t a barely literate backwater. One cannot claim that Scotland and Upper Volta are the same.
SHE HAD A JOB !
Impeachable offense?
Yawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwn!!!!!!!!!
Can we trace Obama’s family history?
Do we even know who his father was?
Also note she was a LEGAL immigrant. Geez.
Coming through Ellis Island *IS* “control”, presstitutes!
Irrelevant, just like everyone whining left wing argument. It has no bearing whatsoever on the current situation.
OMG. That DRUMPF can't keep getting away with it. IMPEACH, IMPEACH!
She spoke English and as far as we know, didn’t arrive in the USA and immediately go on the dole in all directions. She also came here legally and didn’t jump the line or game the system.
She had a job.
The President should have claimed his great grandmother was Cherokee.
$50 ??? That was three months wages in the day ...
Donald Trump is a Macleod: There can be only ONE!
Trump should celebrate his Western Civ, US Constitutionally consistent, immigrant Mother.
Stolen from an American.
I’d say that makes Trump’s position that much more impressive.
$50.00 in 1930 had the same buying power as $701.84 in 2017
This is nothing but old news. The history of Trump’s mother has been printed time and time again over the years......
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