Riley Gaines is celebrating the end of mandatory COVID vaccinations for legal immigrants
Riley Gaines, former NCAA swimmer and activist for female athletes, celebrates President Donald Trump hitting Covid-19 vaccine mandate for legal immigrants.
The Biden administration has fenced off my family for 3 years, Gaines said Fox News Digital.
“Three years of blackmail: my husband’s health for a chance at a green card. Forty-eight hours into the Trump administration, he has removed the unfair barriers that kept families like mine in limbo,” she continued. It cracks down on illegal immigration while making legal immigration easier and more affordable for skilled, hard-working, tax-paying, America-loving people like my husband. Promises made, promises kept.”
Gaines also said her family spent about $15,000 on fees, claims and attorneys and had to restart the process several times.
Riley Gaines at the DailyWire+ Red Carpet Premiere of “Lady Ballers” on November 29, 2023 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Jason Davis/Getty Images for Bentkey Ventures)
“No one in any federal agency under President Biden could point us in the right direction,” Gaines added. “It took one viral tweet to fall on the right ears in the Trump administration to fix this almost overnight.”
She also praised the change in policy on X.
“Big news,” Gaines wrote. “Following the tweet below, USCIS rescinded its Covid vax mandate for legal immigrants. I can’t even begin to count the thousands of people in the same situation who have reached out over the past few years. Promises made, promises kept. Thank you, @realDonaldTrump.”
The US Citizenship and Immigration Services announced in one announcement effective Wednesday that it will no longer require a COVID-19 vaccination for legal immigrants and will no longer deny citizenship to legal immigrants who do not provide documentation that they have received a COVID-19 vaccine.
On October 14, 2021, the Biden administration did mandatory that all applicants for citizenship receive a vaccination against COVID-19 as a condition for citizenship.
Gaines said in November that her husband, despite moving to America from England six years ago, was unable to get a green card because he did not want to get the COVID-19 vaccine.
Riley Gaines speaks at Penn State University. (Riley Gaines)
“My husband moved to America from England for college 6 years ago,” Gaines said on X. “We got married over 2.5 years ago. He STILL doesn’t have a green card because he won’t get the vaccine. They don’t force illegals immigrants to get hit, only the legal ones.”
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