Melania Trump denies violating US immigration laws

August 05, 2016 02:31

Melania Trump, the ex-model and third wife of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, denied reports today that questioned whether she had worked illegally as an immigrant.

It is the third controversy about her in less than three weeks that the potential first lady or the Trump campaign has been forced to address as her husband inflames the political establishment with his divisive campaign for the White House.

"There has been a lot of inaccurate reporting and misinformation concerning my immigration status back in 1996," Melania Trump said in a statement today.

"Let me set the record straight: I have at all times been in full compliance with the immigration laws of this country. Period," she said.

"Any allegation to the contrary is simply untrue," said Melania Trump, who became a US citizen in 2006 -- a year after she married the New York billionaire.

Politico today raised questions about Melania Trump's immigration status when she first came to the United States to work as a model in the mid-1990s.

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