As Planas notes, “chain migration” is “the term immigration restrictionists use to describe allowing U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents to help their family members immigrate to this country.” Planas is a great reporter and much too polite to call these “immigration restrictionists” for what they really are: racist assholes.

For years, these deplorables have been on the fringe of the fringe, but now that they have their guy in the White House, their racist agenda to make America white and Trump’s agenda to make America white are one and the same. And voila, with the help of official White House ghouls like Stephen Miller, the proposed RAISE Act, which has been backed by anti-immigrant hate group FAIR because it means less brown immigrants, now has the official backing of the Trump administration.

But, we know Trump benefits plenty from immigration, both documented and otherwise. From his hotels, to his son’s winery, to Mar-a-Lago, to Trump Tower, immigrants have kept his empire running. They keep America running. And hey, when the administration is even floating digging into the social media accounts of immigrants already here legally, we deserve to ask a couple questions about his own family’s immigration dealings. But of course, they’re being as shady and secretive as fuck:

Immigration records are private in the United States. A spokeswoman for the first lady said the office does “not comment on the First Lady’s family in an effort to protect their privacy,” and the White House did not respond to a request for comment on how the president’s ancestors immigrated to the U.S. David Wildes, an immigration lawyer who currently represents Melania Trump on immigration issues, likewise declined to comment on the status of her immediate relatives. Assuming the first lady’s parents are still visitors, family reunification wouldn’t be their only option for taking up full-time residence in America. Investing $1 million in this country or sinking $500,000 into an enterprise that creates at least 10 jobs would qualify them for an EB-5 investor visa. If one of them showed “extraordinary ability” in the sciences, arts, education, business or athletics, they might qualify for a green card on those merits ― as Melania Knauss did when she applied to become a legal permanent resident in 2001 to pursue a modeling career. If the first lady’s parents faced persecution in their home country of Slovenia, they might qualify for refugee status.

Not to mention the fact that Ivanka, Don Jr., and Eric were all born before their immigrant mom, Ivana, attained U.S. citizenship. When brown people do this, they call them “anchor babies.” Of course, we don’t know the complete truth regarding Melania because the administration won’t talk immigration unless it means attacking immigration. I mean, we’re still waiting on Melania’s press conference, promised to us by Trump spokesperson Hope Hicks way back in August 2016, to discuss her own immigration history, which is itself also mired in plenty of questions. For example, the White House has yet to address how exactly Melania got a green card and if she worked illegally before obtaining a work visa. The receipts show she probably did:

Melania Trump was paid for 10 modeling jobs in the United States worth $20,056 that occurred in the seven weeks before she had legal permission to work in the country, according to detailed accounting ledgers, contracts and related documents from 20 years ago provided to The Associated Press. The details of Mrs. Trump’s early paid modeling work in the U.S. emerged in the final days of a bitter presidential campaign in which her husband, Donald Trump, has taken a hard line on immigration laws and those who violate them. Trump has proposed broader use of the government’s E-verify system allowing employers to check whether job applicants are authorized to work. He has noted that federal law prohibits illegally paying immigrants.

So much for that “law and order” administration. And no offense to Naomi Campbell or Kate Moss, but if modeling counts as an “extraordinary ability” meriting a green card and eventual citizenship, what about the millions of undocumented immigrants who also toil in the fields daily to feed America? And the 800,000 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients who know no other country but this one as their home yet face possible deportation? Are they not deserving of the same legal protections? Even Donald Trump, who is anti-immigrant to the core, has an immigration story (and a “chain migration” one at that). But his actions, and his family actions, add up to one message: we already got ours, so screw you.