Maxine Watters wants to deport Melania, and that isn’t even the dumbest immigration take this week

The immigration debate took a detour off the tracks as arguments over tax returns were overshadowed by California Rep. Maxine Waters’ (D) concerns about Melania Trump’s status.

Late last week, a report was released by the Washington Post detailing that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was nearing an agreement with the IRS toward securing information on the identities and whereabouts of hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens.

While one CNN reporter worried at a potential loss of “billions of dollars in revenue” as many scratched their heads at his logic, Waters shared a true disconnect from rationale while pushing for an investigation of the First Lady’s parents’ status.

Appearing at the March for Our Constitution rally in Los Angeles on Saturday that focused heavily on Elon Musk’s influence on President Donald Trump’s administration and what was dubbed the “Trump Monarchy,” the congressman who’d previously called for the billionaire to be sent “back from wherever he came from,” shared like sentiments for Melania.

“If he wants to start looking so closely to find those who were born here and their parents were undocumented, maybe he oughta first look at Melania,” she railed. “We don’t know whether or not her parents were documented. And maybe we better just take a look.”

Maxine Waters wants to deport Melania pic.twitter.com/5ja21ES3qV

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) March 24, 2025

Aside from the obvious failings in Waters’ reasoning that an adult did not need parents to be a citizen in order to be naturalized in the United States, it remained that the Slovenian-born (then Yugoslavian) Melania had been a U.S. citizen since 2006 and her parents, Viktor Knavs and the late Amalija Knavs had followed suit in 2018.

The lawmaker’s suggestion for an investigation, parroted by the ginned up crowd of activists, faced considerable ridicule on X as users suggested things like, “You literally have to work at it to be that much of an idiot.”

Probably the only honest work Maxine has done in her entire life.

— Cliff Williams (@RTR_Skipjack_29) March 25, 2025

Expel her from Congress.

— Mike Engleman (@RealHickory) March 24, 2025

Liberals can’t fathom the difference between legal immigration and illegal immigration.

— DireWolf224 (@DireWolf224) March 25, 2025

They hate legal immigrants, they love illegal aliens.

— DocSon (@MrDocSon) March 25, 2025

It won’t be long before their Donors become tired of wasting funds on these clowns will it?

— Steven Kerwin (@StevenKerwin) March 25, 2025

Meanwhile, CNN politics senior reporter Stephen Collinson attempted to medal in mental gymnastics during a panel discussion when he expressed his concerns about the potential loss of tax revenue if illegal aliens were to stop filing.

“I think what’s gonna end up happening, potentially, is that undocumented migrants that largely obey the law are gonna stop filing tax returns,” he expressed. “And that’s gonna cause, not just chaos and the government won’t know where everybody is, it’s gonna cost billions of dollars in revenue. And there seems to be some inconsistency between the president’s arguments that we’re going after murderers, and rapists and people who have been taken out of jails in Central America.”

“Undocumented migrants who largely obey the law are going to stop filing tax returns… it’s going to cost billions of dollars in revenue.”

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— Defiant L’s (@DefiantLs) March 24, 2025

Collinson’s concerns regarding the potential agreement between ICE and the IRS came as the Department of Homeland Security had already sought data on some 700,000 suspected illegal aliens and the Post had conveyed the standing policy of the tax collection agency to reassure aliens of the confidentiality of filing “without fear of being deported.”

By now, many in the Democratic Party had expressed their concern that cheap labor — picking crops and cleaning hotels for example — would be lost over the deportations, helping cement the point that those in question filing with the IRS were probably not contributing tax revenue so much as they were likely receiving refunds.

Their taxes are withheld from their paychecks. The government already has their taxes. If anything, they simply won’t get a refund.

— Damian Ranger (@DamianRanger1) March 24, 2025

False, taxes are collected by employers and 95% of filings are to get the Taxes refunded plus all the child (dependent) credits that result in Negative Income tax. Seen the massive TAX refunds for minimum wage restaurant workers.

— The Immigrant (@JA_Loans) March 24, 2025

They don’t file tax returns with a check; they file to RECEIVE one.

In fact, I’d be willing to bet that many aren’t paying income tax at all while earning their income.

40%+ of the working population doesn’t even pay taxes and I seriously doubt that undocumented migrants…

— ◔◡◔ (@ampsys56) March 24, 2025

“Largely obey the law” that’s such disingenuous and meaningless language.

— Generic Midwesterner (@GenericMidwest) March 24, 2025

“Largely” obey the law? Can I change to just mostly follow the law as well? Maybe skip filing my returns as well?

Do these people hear themselves?

— Based In CA (@LovesHamachi) March 24, 2025

So should US Citizens also stop filing tax returns?

I’m good with that.

— JERKSTORE!!! (Ass/Tastic) aka Bob Loblaw (@greatesteverMD) March 24, 2025

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— BurntRoad (@EdwardT78344878) March 24, 2025

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Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn’t researching current events and their impacts, you’ll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.

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