Immigrants in Government

Did you know these people were born of immigrant parents or were immigrants themselves?

  • Kash Patel, who leads the FBI, was born to Indian immigrant parents.
  • Mehmet Oz, who leads the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, was born to Turkish immigrants
  • Vice President JD Vance‘s wife, second lady Usha Vance, was born to Indian immigrants
  • Former Vice President Kamala Harris was born in Oakland, California, to immigrant parents, a Jamaican father and an Indian mother
  • Former U.N. Ambassador Nimarata Nikki Randhawa Haley, aka Nikki Haley, was born in South Carolina to Indian immigrants
  • Marco Rubio was born to Cuban parents who were not American citizens at the time of his birth
  • Elon Musk, born in South Africa, was an undocumented immigrant before gaining US citizenship
  • Melania Trump was born in Slovenia and obtained an H-1B visa before becoming a citizen
  • Peter Thiel was born in West Germany, grew up in South Africa, and became a naturalized citizen
  • Donald Trump’s mother was a Scottish immigrant, and his father was the son of a German immigrant
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