Riley Gaines celebrates repeal of COVID vaccination mandate for legal immigrants

Riley Gaines, a erstwhile NCAA swimmer and activist for pistillate athletes, is celebrating President Donald Trump striking down the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for ineligible immigrants. 

"My household has been stonewalled by the Biden medication for 3 years now," Gaines told Fox News Digital. 

"Three years of being blackmailed: my husband's wellness for a accidental astatine a greenish card. Forty-eight hours into Trump's administration, helium has removed the unjust barriers that kept families similar excavation successful limbo," she continued.  He's cracking down connected amerciable migration portion making ineligible migration much streamlined and attainable for skilled, hardworking, tax-paying radical who emotion America similar my husband. Promises made, promises kept."

Gaines besides shared that her household has spent astir $15,000 connected fees, applications, and lawyers and person had to restart the process respective times. 

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Riley Gaines attends the DailyWire+ Red Carpet Premiere of "Lady Ballers" connected November 29, 2023 successful Nashville, Tennessee. (Jason Davis/Getty Images for Bentkey Ventures)

"No 1 successful immoderate national bureau nether President Biden could constituent america successful the close direction," Gaines added. "It took 1 viral tweet to autumn connected the close ears successful the Trump medication for them to get this fixed fundamentally overnight."

She besides praised the argumentation alteration connected X.

"Huge news," Gaines wrote. "Following the beneath tweet, USCIS has rescinded their Covid vax mandate for ineligible immigrants. I can't adjacent archer you the thousands of radical successful the aforesaid concern who person reached retired implicit the past fewer years. Promises made, promises kept. Thank you, @realDonaldTrump." 

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said successful an announcement effectual Wednesday that it volition nary longer necessitate the COVID-19 vaccination for ineligible immigrants, and that they volition nary longer contradict citizenship to ineligible immigrants who bash not springiness documentation that they received the COVID-19 vaccine. 

On Oct. 14, 2021, the Biden medication made it mandatory that each applicants for citizenship person the COVID-19 vaccination shots arsenic a information for citizenship. 

In November, Gaines said that her husband, contempt having moved from England to America six years ago, had not been capable to get a greenish paper due to the fact that helium did not privation to get the COVID-19 vaccine. 

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Riley Gaines speaks astatine Penn State University. (Riley Gaines)

"My hubby moved to America from England for assemblage 6 years ago," Gaines said connected X. "We got joined implicit 2.5 years ago. He STILL doesn't person a greenish paper due to the fact that helium won't get the vaccine. They don't unit amerciable immigrants to get the jab, conscionable the ineligible ones."

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