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Look. >> so, in a sense, did you become undocumented overnight? >> overnight, yeah. >> reporter: elias was 7 when he came to the u.s. from venezuela on a visa, which was dependent on his moms work visa. a few years later, his mom annabel a died of cancer. >> her presence, though, is constantly felt. i feel it all the time. i feel her energy. >> reporter: and to make matters worse, in middle school he learned that without his mom, he was undocumented. >> youre literally standing in the country th...

>> facebook, trending there. >> reporter: he is from iraq, coming here after 15 after winning a coveted spot sponsored by a u.s. state department. he had been here ever since and has a u.s. work visa, but not a green card. his two brothers an mother live less than three miles away across the boarder in vancouver canada and visits them ever weekend, that is used to visit them every weekend. >> reporter: so if you left, you would not be allowed back into this country? >> thats right. its still unc...

Arrives in america on a work visa with $50 and some cooking knives and the next thing you know is he has 20 restaurants. and the big moment is in 2015 was when he and his wife became american citizens and he tweeted about that and he seemed like the happiest guy who everybody tweeted. you balance that against trump saying, well, how bad could it be? and the answer really is, if it defends a guy as decent as andres, and it defends a guy with that kind of all american dream, then it is that bad. ...

Leaders in silicon valley that signed an open letter calling him a disaster, i believe, in terms of innovation. as you mentioned, his conversations with apple ceo tim cook havent been on the best terms regarding manufacturing and things of that nature. i think this meeting is important for donald trump if he wants to rebuild bridges or build bridges to begin with with the tech industry and get them on his side or get on the same page about some of the major issues facing businesses today. >> wha...

Forth, she did not have a valid work visa. >> i want to bring back in maria. as youre hearing this report tonight, and as youve listened to everything donald trump has said about who he would deport and why he would deport them, everything ive heard him say indicates that what melania trump was doing in the united states, according to the a.p.s report, would have gotten her deported by a president trump at that time. >> well, i think that, and the biggest -- i think the biggest story, too, is th...

According to a detailed accounting, the ledgers, contracts and related documents from 20 years ago, provided by the associated press, the wife of the gop presidential nominee who sometimes worked as a model under just her first name, has said, through an attorney, that she first came to the u.s. from slovenia on august 27, 1996, on a b 1 b 2 visitor visa, and then obtained1b work visa on october 18, 1996. the documents obtained by the a.p. show she was paid for ten modeling assignments between s...

Money inside the united states for a united states company. >> but everything we know in your report tonight indicates that melania trump is -- was exactly the kind of worker who donald trump would deport from the united states. >> well, i mean, im not going to say that. i dont think that thats necessarily -- what his comments have been. hes been pretty prolific in his discussions of illegal immigration, those in the country without legal authorization, and to be clear, none of the records we ha...

Discussions of illegal immigration, those in the country without legal authoration, and to be clear, none of the records we have reviewed combined with the letter from mr. wilds, the immigration attorney who has reviewed her immigration documents, at mrs. donald trutr request, suggested that melania trump was in the country illegally or without authorization. by all accounts, she arrived in the united states with a valid visitor visa, later receiving the work visa. the question at this stage is,...

Immigration system. at the end of the day, given what we know now she violated visa laws by working here without documents. does she standby her own husbands immigration policies? she was supposed to do a press conference which never happened. she did a press conference on bullying. lets go through what the ap found. she said she came in on a visitor visa and obtained a work visa. disentangle that. >> you can be here as a tourist, sightseeing. you can do some business-related work. you can do ne...

The seven weeks during which the ledgers from the modeling firm detail jobs booked and paid for during that period. and to be clear, i dont know when those jobs were physically paid to her, but she earned money during that period which, according to her time line set forth, she did not have a valid work visa. >> i want to bring back in maria. as youre hearing this report tonight, and as youve listened to everything donald trump has said about who he would deport and why he would deport them, eve...