It is set to be one of the most anti-immigration governments in recent history, but at Monday’s inauguration the two men who will become the new president and vice-president of the United States will show how wedded they are — literally — to immigration.
Donald Trump is the only president in two centuries to have a wife born outside the US: Melania Trump, born Melanija Knavs, is an immigrant from what was then communist Yugoslavia, her grandfather Anton Ulcnik one of the most successful onion farmers of the region.
Meanwhile, JD Vance is the first vice-president to have a spouse of colour, and of Asian and Hindu heritage. Usha (pronounced “Oosha”) Vance, born Usha Chilukuri, has parents who immigrated to California from India just before