Melania Trump expected in Arizona on Thursday to tour immigration facilities
PHOENIX — Law enforcement officials are preparing for first lady Melania Trump to visit Tucson on Thursday, according to an official familiar with her schedule.
She is scheduled to land at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base and state police are on standby to help close roads and ramps as she leaves the airport, the official told The Arizona Republic on Wednesday. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to disclose information about the first lady’s itinerary.
Based on his information, she is not expected to travel to the border.
The official said the trip could be canceled by the White House.Â
The first lady’s spokeswoman, Stephanie Grisham, confirmed to USA TODAY on Tuesday that Trump would be visiting facilities holding immigrant families suspected of illegally crossing into the United States. Grisham has declined to provide details of where the first lady would be traveling.Â
If the first lady visits Tucson, it would be her second round of visits to such facilities since President Donald Trump signed an executive order last week ending the practice of separating children from their parents at the border.Â
Melania Trump also could visit a facility in Phoenix, according to another person familiar with her plans.Â
Both of those people, based in Arizona, confirmed information about the trip independent of each other.
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President Trump and first lady Melania Trump spent part of their long weekend in Florida, staring Feb. 16, 2018, visiting Broward Health North hospital in Pompano Beach, Fla., following the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in Parkland, Fla., three days earlier. They were accompanied by Dr. Igor Nichiporenko, left, when they met with medical staff.Â
First lady Melania Trump wore a bright red coat by Calvin Klein for her cookie-making visit to the Children’s Inn at the National Institutes of Health, where she met Amber Negrete, 8, right seated, Annie Ribas, 9, left, and Katherine Faughn, 6, center seated.Â
The first family’s first weekend at Camp David started on June 17, 2017. Mrs. Trump chose an embroidered pinstripe white dress by Gabriela Hearst, plus flats, for the occasion, according to White House Wardrobe on Twitter. Their son, Barron, 11, was wearing soccer gear, and President Trump, who’s rarely seen in anything but a suit, had ditched his tie. Melania’s parents, Viktor and Amalija Knavs, also went along on the ride to the rustic presidential refuge about 70 miles from the White House in Maryland’s Catoctin Mountains.Â
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