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Washington (CNN) - First lady Michelle Obama faced a tough policy question Wednesday from an unlikely source – a second grader.
During a visit to a Washington area school with Mexican first lady Margarita Zavala, a student concerned about her mother's legal status asked Michelle Obama about her husband's immigration policies.
"My mom said, I think that she says that, Barack Obama is going to take away everybody that doesn't have papers," the young girl told the first lady.
The unscripted moment was sandwiched between examples of Michelle Obama's signature policy initiatives -a lesson on healthy eating and an exercise session – and forced the first lady to walk the fine line of immigration reform policy language.
"Yeah well that's something that we have to work on, right? To make sure that people can be here with the right kind of papers, right? That's exactly right."
The girl replied, "But, my mom doesn't have any."
During a visit to a Washington area school with Mexican first lady Margarita Zavala, a student concerned about her mother's legal status asked Michelle Obama about her husband's immigration policies.
"My mom said, I think that she says that, Barack Obama is going to take away everybody that doesn't have papers," the young girl told the first lady.
The unscripted moment was sandwiched between examples of Michelle Obama's signature policy initiatives -a lesson on healthy eating and an exercise session – and forced the first lady to walk the fine line of immigration reform policy language.
"Yeah well that's something that we have to work on, right? To make sure that people can be here with the right kind of papers, right? That's exactly right."
The girl replied, "But, my mom doesn't have any."