Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., known to stoke the political flames against President Donald Trump and his supporters, recently protested against the administration’s policies on illegal immigration, suggesting first lady Melania Trump’s parents came to the U.S. illegally.

A portion of Waters’ rant at a rally Saturday in Los Angeles was caught on a video that was widely posted on social media. The outburst about the first lady, a native of Slovenia, who has been a naturalized U.S. citizen since 2006, came when Waters was talking about the president’s efforts to eliminate birthright citizenship for children of illegal immigrants born on U.S. soil.

Supporters of birthright citizenship have said the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which states “all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside,” covers children born to illegal immigrants.

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