Romney’s Untypical Views on Immigration
Mitt Romney might yet become the first Hispanic president of the United States. But first, the likely 2012 presidential candidate is doing something really important — going to bat for legal immigrants.
First things first. You heard right. I said Romney could become the first Hispanic president. The former Massachusetts governor compares to New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, who, like Romney, ran unsuccessfully for president in 2008. Each had one Mexican-born parent — Richardson’s mother and Romney’s father.
In fact, both Mitt’s father — George Romney – and his grandfather — Gaskell Romney — were born in Mexico. His great-grandfather, Miles Park Romney, fled the United States and crossed the southern border in 1884 to escape religious persecution. The result was the Mormon enclave of Colonia Juarez in the Mexican state of Chihuahua, which still exists to this day.
That not only makes Mitt Romney Hispanic, it also makes it all the more curious that “El Mitt” would — as part of his extreme right-wing makeover in the 2008 election — try to scare up votes with his best impersonation of Tom Tancredo, the former Colorado congressman who went nuts at the idea of having to “press 1 for English.” That sheet never seemed to fit.
Now we know why. Romney obviously has a soft spot for illegal immigrants, given that his great-grandfather was one. At least, I haven’t seen a copy of an engraved invitation from Mexican President Manuel Gonzalez — who was in power in 1884 — to Miles Park Romney, asking him to migrate south and bring with him all the Mormons he could find.
Be that as it may, unlike many Republicans – including Tancredo, who calls for a moratorium on all immigration because he fears the demographic changes that foreigners bring with them — Romney does seem to have a legitimate soft spot for legal immigrants. It probably comes from being part of a family that knows firsthand what it’s like to have to leave your country behind and gamble on the promise of brighter days down the road.
Congratulations!
North to South illegals: 1
South to North illegals: 30,000,000 and counting.
Why do you get to post here? Seriously. It baffles me.
This does NOT make Romney Mexican or Hispanic. What a spurious claim. If my mother would have given birth to me while my father was stationed in Guam would that make me of South Pacific decent? Most certainly not. The entire premise this article is built upon is faulty. Go back and read it, fix the mistakes, then give us another reason to be afraid. This is nothing better than the MSM would have palmed off on us.
Many Mexican’s ancestors migrated from Spain and France.
sorry but it does. Mexico, like the U.S. grants automatic citizenship by birth. so indeed his father IS Mexican. whether you like it or not or whatever your opinion may be. it is the law down there. Many Mexicans have multiple ethnic backgrounds other than indigenous…..
the difference, Angela, is that is his father and grandfather WEREN’T stationed there, they were born and lived there. And since when did the word “Mexican” stand for a descent rather than a nationality? They were Mexican citizens.
I agree with Angela. Ruben said that Romney is “Hispanic”, not “Mexican”. That’s a crucial difference. If the Romney home language was English rather than Spanish, I wouldn’t call them Hispanic. What about the German-speaking families in Paraguay? Are they Hispanic?
This is the same as various minorities in Europe. Ferdinand Porsche and Sigmund Freud were both born and grew up in what is now the Czech Republic. Would you call them Czech, or Slavic? Not really. They spoke German at home. Porsche eventually moved to Germany, where he founded the Porsche car company, and designed the Volkswagen Beetle. Freud moved to Austria, and wrote all his work in German.
‘Mexican’ is not a race. Citizenship is a meaningless legal designation. No, if Angela were born in Guam, she would not be a Guamanian, no matter what her parents’ status might be. If she were born in Japan, she would never be Japanese, nor would her children and grandchildren — ask any Japanese. Almost all ‘Mexicans’ are Amer-Ind, with tiny European admixture. Presidente Calderone is 100% correct when he says that Mexico is any place Mexicans live.
This is why Americans, who live in America (where Americans live), are so upset by their massive influx. Part of America is disappearing. If you understand this, world history would make sense. Third-world sh*t-holes (Zimbabwe, Detroit) are where third-world people live.
Grow up and quit your racist innuendos, Rubén (“that sheet didn’t fit”).
Read how multiculturalism should be dead:
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-hicks-file-multiculturalism-reaches-its-dead-end/
and stop acting/writing childishly.
I totally agree with Romney’s point of view. We need all the educated, hardworking people we can get and should look for this when admitting immigrants. Americans need to look out for their own country’s best interests. I think it is shameful, and really shocking, that this has not been done.
Amen! The way we do immigration these days is not only shameful, it is stupid, counterproductive, and in our own worst, repeat worst, interests. The only question in my mind is whether the politicians who rail about immigration are merely pandering to idiots rather than bothering to try and educate them, or are simply exceptionally stupid themselves. Or both, of course.
Get the facts straight Navarrete!
Romney’s grand dad fled to Mexico with his three wives because he wanted to have a Mormon polygamist lifestyle in Mexico. The Mormons are the most RACIST sect around.
Romney is as Hispanic as John McCain who was in fact born in Panama! Romney was born in Detrot , Michigan!! All his family is WHITE and he does not speaks Spanish.
Junior, you are one clever dude. Guess you didn’t know that there are MILLIONS of Mormons all over the world, especially in MEXICO and South America. Yep, a true mark of a racist church, since they have hundreds of thousands of members in Africa, with about 14 million world-wide. Of course, since you know so much about Mitt Romney, you would know that he speaks English and French- a true mark of a racist, since only non-racist people speak Spanish! Yeah, those no-good-racist-cult-lousy Mormons who donate MILLIONS of dollars worth of medicine, food, clothing, vaccines, medical services (i.e. infant resussitation), wheel chairs, agricultural supplies and education, vocational training, literacy programs, clean water wells (i.e. Africa), and basic services to natural disasters site- all around the entire world, people like you should just get rid of ‘em. That way people like YOU can do all these acts of service. I”m sure someone like you has the talent, brains, and executive experience to solve the serious economic problems our country is facing. Mitt is just a dumb spud, no education, no credentials, no track record of success, a lousy father and husband who really screwed up the 2002 Winter Olympics. Yep, you’ve got the answers, mr. clever!
Romney will have problems getting the nomination with his liberal stances on immigration, abortion, gay marriage and health care. Romney president?? Ain’t gonna happen!
I think there should be a moratorium on all legal immigration by the US and our country should let the rest of the world know that this is because of how Mexico and Central American countries enable illegal immigration to the US.
Let the rest of the world do what our own politicians will not and that is to put pressure on Latin America for wrecking the whole thing for everybody.
America is a nation made by European Americans into what it is today and it is not an airport where the culture who built it has no moral right to retain its culture intact.
Ask yourself this question whether you like it or not: name one thing, just one, that Latino or black Americans have contributed to America that makes people all over the world want to come to live here?
It is the values of the ‘racist’ European Americans that make this country a decent place to live and all the crying about institutional racism here rings hollow in the face of the same gang crime as in America all over Latin America but with no one to blame other than the endemic failure of Latino culture when it comes to anything that really matters.
All the good food, literature, films and architecture in the world is no cure for being assaulted night and day by kidnappings and murder.
Go to Rio de Janeiro or Colombia and enter a shanty town alone and see what it gets you. The US will soon have the same as the white population will simply not be able to assimilate and cover for so many Latinos who will eventually bring Latin America to a theatre near you, a theatre of war.
Los Angeles style gang warfare has already spread to the 300 largest cities in America and will only grow worse.
Places in America that 50 years ago never knew any real gang crime are now inundated with it. Latin Americans already have an entire continent in which to enjoy their culture and their is no moral argument that America must somehow have a large Latino component; if you love such things, go to Latin America cuz we already have a culture in place and their is no need to subvert it into another Third World mess.
Romney will be as “Hispanic” as he deems politically expedient, I’m sure. He’s the quintessential “I’ll say anything you want to hear if it will get me elected” politician. The most blatant example is his “I’m completely pro-choice” video when he was running in uberliberal Massachusetts versus his “I’m a pro life candidate” claims when he wanted the GOP nomination in 2008. Haven’t we had enough of that?
Despite your assertions Reuben, I find very few Americans that want to stop legal immigration. What we don’t want is invasion from our borders from a people that take advantage of our healthcare systems, social benefits, education and last but certainly not least-jobs. (Not to mention what their presence in this Country has done to wage scales.
Unfortunately, the wizards in Washington don’t know what ”illegal” actually means. (Maybe it’s becasue they can’t read?)
Mitt has a good idea it may be worth looking into.
it’s probsbly more because of all the “illegal” activity the current gang in DC engage in. If they recognized illegal activity by others, they might feel uncomfortable with their own illegal behavior. can’t have that. /sarc.
What a disgusting sight it was to see our President taking sides with the Presidente de Mexico against Arizona, a bona fide and loyal part of the United States, and its entire law enforcement arm. Obama depicted the law officers of Arizona as foaming at the mouth in expectation of arresting a wonderful but illegal dad who was just out for a stroll to an ice cream store with his charming little daughter. Oh how brutal, he suggested, those police thugs are. How lawless is the horrible state of Arizona!
He said Arizona’s laws could be misused. I say Mexico’s laws are being abused. I see every day that the laws of the U.S.A. are misused by the Administration and Congress. I’ll put my life in the hands of Arizona’s police before I would Mexico’s or the Federal government’s, I’ll tell you that. Wake up folks, Chuck Schumer’s anti-free-speech police will be after all of us soon.
As for Juniors here, who wrote this piece for PJM, his goal seems to be to get the Repub nomination for Romney Juniors. Good luck with that, Juniors. But if you are just having a little joke at our expense, juniors, then never mind.
He said Arizona’s laws could be misused.
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Any law can be misused, if that is the intent of the person enforcing the law.
I really doubt that Obama would support a call to get rid of all laws.
If I recall correctly, it was Romney who in fact said during his campain, “I will send them all home, make them stand in line and come back legally.”
do we have so much money that we have room to educate students from other nations who do not invest their money into universities and education? Don’t we have enough intelligent teens who want to go to higher education but can’t afford to do so and who maybe BUMPED OUT by these foreign students? And yes why educate foreigners and then have them take it home?
A green card automatically NO NO NO – all the 9-11 murderers were here on student visas- amny here on student visas send proxies to classes while they plot JIHAD
USA is no longer a nation taht needs to fill empty space
conditions for entry and citizenship should be very strict- like in the nations they are coming from like MEXICO
Mexico does not let you live there unless you have income from home, or will invest large amonunt of money into their nation’s industries- will Mexican immigrants do the same here? NO
your level of ignorance on the imigration requirements for students from other countries into the US is simply appalling. Not ONE of the items you listed is correct. please do yourself and the readers a favor and inform yourself before going off on a bigoted rant.
and oh, by the way; your so called teens who get ‘bumped’ out from US colleges by the evil foreigners, should probably first get their credentials up to par with those from the rest of the world and should also WANT to go to college first.
not going to entertain you more on the subject but i know all these items as i went through them.
I’ve not heard arguments against skilled-worker legal immigration coming from Republicans, or anyone else, for that matter, with the narrow exception of some concern being expressed about the “brain-drain” of trained healthcare workers, engineers and businesspeople from poor countries that can ill afford to lose them. How funny that the highly sensitive Navarrette failed to notice that point. Also, isn’t there a sell-by date on Klan insinuations? Please send him the way of Ron Rosenbaum. It’s a tired and offensive schtick.
AMERICANS WANT CONTROL OVER THE BOARDERS. oBAMA WANT’S THEN TO FLOOR IN..OBAMA IS AN ILLEGAL IMMINGRENT A WELL HE WAS BORN IN KENYA…WHY ARE THEY NOT SHUTING DOWN THE BOARDERS ? cAUSE MEXICO -CHINA AND MORE HAVE BEEN WANTING TO TAKE OUR COUNTRY DOWN.THEY DESTOYED THEIR OWN COUNTRY AND TOOK RIGHT’S AWAY FROM THE PEOPLE.SO, LET THE FLOOD INTO AMERICA AND THEN WOW….. WE CAN GET THIER VOTES AND DO NOTHING FOR THE IMMIGRENT S THEY ARE BEING USED AND ABUSED BY OUR GOVERNMENT… THEY ONLY NEED THE ILLEGAL VOTES TO TAKE OUR COUNTRY LIKE CHINA MEXICO AND OTHER COUNTRIES…. YOU SEE WHAT THEY ARE DOING.THEN ONVE DOWN… BYE BYE PEOPLE THEY ARE GOING TO DELETE YOUY ALL..
OBAMA MUST BE THROW OUT AND TRERASON AND NOW !AMLONE WITH CONGRESS AND THOSE DEMOCRATS AND THOSE RHINOS
Learn to spell, Pete. I could not even decipher this post. Sheesh. I think I might agree with you if I could be sure about what you are saying.
Slow down on the black and whites, Pete. Take your time, spell-check, think about your sentences. We’ll be here when you’re done.
“Just when these people enter their high-productivity years — when they generate income, consume goods, and pay taxes — we can’t wait to send them home.”
Makes perfect sense. Educate them. Show them what a successful country looks like. Send them home and hope they lead the revolutions that make their own countries successful. I personally think that no one should be invited to the United States unless they have already proven that they made positive changes in their own country first. America was built from our founders shedding the blood sweat and tears required to create a successful government that allows the people to be successful. What have these people done to be a part of and have the opportunity to destroy and degrade our nation? Every new voter we add to this country has the opportunity to either destroy or to improve our nation, should we be degrading the value of voters who vote for improvements?
Oh, I get it now! I’m really a German since my great grandparents were from there. Oh wait, no, no, I think I’m Scots since the other side came from there. No that’s not right, I’m English since back in time that’s were my people came from, they just married into Scots-Irish folks, who also happen to have some French Huguenot woman and some Cherokee or maybe Shawnee, not really sure there. I am a bit confused by the German too, I mean do I have to choose between being Swiss German or Prussian German? I mean really, all those Germans look alike anyway don’t they?
All of which makes me a Mennonite Lutheran Calvinist Anglican Shaman!
And since Romney was born in Detroit he’s really black, just not African.
All jokes aside- and this sort of worthless article begs for them- notice the underlying nazism. And Godwin’s Law be damned, the notice is well founded.
The article is classic Nazi style racial dynamics. It is in fact more specifically La Raza liebensraum apologetics.
Sincerely, why does this person get to put articles up on PJM??? It is truly baffling, and affecting my future subscription decision making. IYKWIMAITYD.
I would have voted for Romney over McCain except that failed Romney-Care hangs heavy on his resume. As for his relationship and ideals with the immigration policy, I have to stick to one question: “Which part of “illegal” doesn’t translate?
On the other hand, Romney now knows what doesn’t work – the program he put in in MA – so he knows not to do that again. It can be seen both ways – disadvantage and advantage.
So as you say Romneys father was Mexican, so Mitt is not a Natural Born Citizen and not able to be President. Question, since the Romneys heritage is from Utah before statehood,they left in 1885 and Utah gained statehood in 1896, are any of the Romneys American citizens and or is Mitt an anchor baby?
OK Tim, let me wrap my mind around what you are saying. ONLY American FATHERS can have natural born citizens, not American MOTHERS? Question for you- what is your understanding of American Territories versus American States? I think you need to seriously brush up on some basic civic education. Also, since you are so clever on Romney genealogy, did any Romney exist before Utah became a territory, or did they spontaneously generate in the great Rocky Mountains?
The reason so few American kids want to go to engineering school is that they know they face strong competition from the legal immigrants politicians like Romney want to import. Why work your butt off in the most difficult of undergraduate studies when you could make more money living off your cultural skills in areas where you were born with advantages like legal, sales, or marketing?
Advocates of continued high legal immigration always seem to be people whose income would not be threatened by an increased supply of labor in their fields.
I look around my office and I can make an educated guess, based on the several economics classes I aced, that my income would be higher if immigrations rules were tightened and would drop with a flood of new immigrant engineers.
That’s the same situation that American unskilled and semi-skilled workers have seen.
No, illegal immigration must be stopped and legal immigration restricted. Romney is just trying to placate the cheap labor interests.
I’ve read several of Navarrette’s article here and NONE of them have made any sense. Are they offered here just to give us an refresher on how idiotic the leftists are?
Wow! Talk about desperation on Rancho racialism! I guess that explains the whispering campaign Mitt’s father endured in his own run for Prez in 1968, because that’s about how relevant this rant is. We all just needed the Romney family history lesson to ‘splain’ it all! SE SI PUEDE!
What a crock. So what are you setting up here Ruben – you got some familial evidence that Romney has a BIG LOVE poly-sister bride & love child down south you care to reveal? What is next Ruben – incest ‘discovered’ in the Brigham Young clan with a direct line to Mitt ‘n crew? Alien abduction in area 51 back in the ’40′s?
Anything salacious you want to try and launder through National Enquirer? Oh that’s right – the Enquirer ACTUALLY BREAKS SEX SCANDALS these days editorially, not just speculates in them.
Romney holds a position on fixing immigration that THE MAJORITY OF AMERICANS AGREE WITH. Namely to stop the Latino/tribal greivance machine culminating with the land invasion from the south, and tie immigration first and foremost to willing and compulsory assimilation – while acknowledging that JD Hayworths revelation – ‘Border Security is National Security’ – is absolutely correct.
In Romney’s policy as discussed on Hewitt’s show he did nothing to suggest he would be ‘America’s first hispanic President’. Rather than looking the other way and letting anyone who bum rushes the boarder in, Romney explicitly addresses the two most important prioities. First, secure the border. Secondly, coming here is a much sought after prize, and one we will only offer to the best and the brightest.
Race, and esspecially tribal demands – i.e. the Ruben Nav & La Raza set – has NOTHING TO DO WITH IT. Period. Family Biz three plus generations removed or not – not for the Romney clan AND NOT FOR ANY LATINO’S EITHER! A hemispheric proximity to the border, and the established abuses indulged by Latino’s in the past 20 years since Simpson-Mazzoli, despite the Latino communities demands, will not drive this debate nor it’s solution.
That is, as long as Romney (Or some other conservative) has a say and not Pelosi or Obama. With Romney it isn’t about pandering for votes. Nor is it about slicing and dicing unskilled labor against ‘undocumented workers’ and ensuring ‘competition’ with the confused nativists who ‘expect entitlements.’
Fixing the broken system is the priority. It isn’t surprising that his proposed direction, which gives NO SPECIAL PRIVLEGE TO THOSE WHO CAME HERE FROM LATIN AMERICA OR MEXICO what so ever – not regarding family unification or path to citizenshipor anything – NADA – that this upsets you Ruben.
What you conflate is disgusting, but hardly surprising. You take a very convienent and truncated interpretation of this man’s family almost 130 years ago, pile that on top of already existing prejudice some still have concerning Mormanism, and then completely misrepresent what the probable candidate in 2012 had to say on a recent radio program.
Par for the course for typical tribalist argumentation from the up with Latino crowd. More contortionist logic now that Arizona has upped the ante on the issue of late. Instead of constructive anything – it’s more racialist tripe.
Please don’t tell me that Romney has any hope of being the Republican presidential candidate in 2012. I don’t think I can handle even the thought. An honorable man, yes, I believe so. Also the author of Romney-care. That in itself is unforgivable.
We have to have better options in 2012, and I believe we will.
As far as this article goes, it’s a great load of crap. The whole racial “justification” for an idea is tired, and intellectually worthless.
as always, Ruben N is silly.
Romney is not “Hispanic”. He is “of Mexican descent”. Hispanic is racial/cultural. Romney is descended from Mexican NATIONALS, people who were born there.
And Ruben picks Tancredo to use as a foil to describe Mitt in comparison as ‘soft toward legal immigration’.
Note– almost EVERYONE is soft toward LEGAL immigration. Pretty much everyone in Arizona is SOFT TOWARD LEGAL IMMIGRATION.
Romney is like the rest of us– he is against ILLEGAL immigration.
Ruben Navarette, you have not distinguished yourself lately, on PJs or anywhere else.
If George Romney was born in Mexico, for Mitt Romney’s sake I hope he became a naturalized U.S. citizen BEFORE Mitt was born. If not, Mitt Romney cannot be president because he would not be a natural born citizen – which requires being born on U.S. soil to two U.S.-citizen parents. IF George Romney did not become a naturalized U.S. citizen until AFTER Mitt was born, then Mitt Romney cannot legally serve as president. (Of course, neither can Obama – because BOTH his parents were not U.S. citizens and he is therefore not a natural born citizen; if born in Hawaii he is only a native born citizen.)
And yes, Bobby Jindal CANNOT serve as president. Although he was born in the United States, his parents were in the country on student visas from India. Neither were U.S. citizens at the time of his birth. Jindal is therefore, like Obama, NOT a natural born citizen; he is only a native born citizen.
These statements do NOT make me a “birther.” They are merely statements of law and the historical context in which the laws and the U.S. Constitution were written. If you don’t like it, work for an Amendment to the Constitution and don’t waste time calling me a Nazi.
Read The Obama Timeline, which has ALL the evidence against the thug in chief.
Someone needs to refute this misinformation; it almost could not be more wrong.
” … Mitt Romney cannot be president because he would not be a natural born citizen – which requires being born on U.S. soil to two U.S.-citizen parents. ”
Absolutely untrue. Either parent parent can confer automatic citizenship, and if Romney was born on US soil, he is a natural-born citizen. And the same applies to Bobby Jindal.
I do this work for a living as a Consular Officer for the US Department of State. Part of the job is to adjudicate passports and citizenship. Whatever you may think about Romney or Obama or whomever, you need to have the facts straight.
Hejsan – thanks for taking on junior. Couldn’t have said it better.
As far as students, etc., there are many educated men and women who come to the US from (for instance) South Korea and who teach at the University and their visa says they have one year. Boy at the end of the year they are made to leave out country. While all the time the people sneaking across the southern border (and maybe not Mexicans, but terrorists) get to stay with no education, no money, and perhaps evil intent.
Insults levied on Mr. Navarette for being leftist, whatever, need to stop. We need to have thoughtful, opposing viewpoints so PJM doesn’t turn into an echo chamber. Furthermore, whenever us conservatives accuse the lefties of being uncivil we need to make sure we’re not pots calling the kettle black.
Having said that, granting millions of illegal immigrants carte blanche just because there ARE millions is just, plain, wrong. It is a total slap in the face of the millions who came before them who obtained their citizenship the right way. AND who learned the NATIVE language.
Since the millions ARE here, I suggest a tiered citizenship track. For the first X time block (a year?), the right to live and work, but not receive taxpayer-funded services unless they can prove they pay taxes. For the next X block of time, conditional citizenship (no voting rights). In the third and last X block of time, full citizenship, provided an English language proficiency test is successfully completed, an oath of allegiance taken, no criminal convictions and proof of taxes filed/paid.
Good points, but it seems that illegals who have already broken other laws should be “shown the exit” at Step 1, not Step 3. Also why do we never discuss the fact that many, many jobs currently held by illegal immigrants *used* to be (not more than 30 years ago) readily available to tax-paying U.S. Citizen teenagers and students but now these younger workers are in many cases culturally excluded from these jobs ?
I really despise the phrase “jobs Americans won’t do” made so famous by GWB – because that’s not always the case. When the economy sucks as bad as it does today, real citizens should *always* get first choice over illegals even if the illegals are paying their “fair share” of taxes. Young persons trying to get *any* kind of a foothold in the economy should not be culturally excluded because one particular segment of the population has saturated a particular industry.
Ironic.
Mitt’s grandfather fled the US because of religious persecution. And in some part, Mitt could not lock the presidential nomination because of his religion.
Yet, Rommney’s keep trying to do their part. So bombastic Mccain types can run the railroad off the mixed metaphoric cliffs.
The man better get real in this age of importing people and deporting jobs. So glad you gave us this information. Romney is another Mayor Bloomberg in so many ways and this country doesn’t need another RINO. I won’t be voting for him, that’s for sure.
Unfortunately, Ruben, you continue to push the leftwing propaganda line about Republicans being “anti-immigrant”. This is a lie. You might as well call us racists and be done with it.
Why should I read anything you have to say when you continue to use this lie to bash people like me, who merely want to borders controlled to prevent illegal immigrantion, as xenophobes?
I havent specifically called Ruben a leftist, but maybe those that do think he is one because he talks like one, at least on the immigration issue.
More bait and switch from Navarrette. First, what laws did Romney’s grandfather violate when he emigrated to Mexico? None, Mexico had no laws preventing it.
Second, Romeny also does the bait and switch, talking about high skilled university graduates, but in reality his policy is amensty for the unskilled labor and welfare recipients already here. I noticed that Navarrette did not point that out. All in the service of the goal of amensty and a Demoncrat majority.
SCYTHE,SGT TED,FEDERAL:Romney is neither American, nor Mexican,(or any other kind of Hispanic),or a Democrat or a Republican. He is a globalist plutocrat,of the Bush model, loyal only to the profit motive and the needs of his transnational class to increase its fortune and power through impoverishing native-born Americans,by importing cheap, exploitable labor.He relies on affirmative-action empowered,diversity fanatics, like Ruben,to disguise his intentions.
Now we know why. Romney obviously has a soft spot for illegal immigrants, given that his great-grandfather was one. At least, I haven’t seen a copy of an engraved invitation from Mexican President Manuel Gonzalez — who was in power in 1884 — to Miles Park Romney, asking him to migrate south and bring with him all the Mormons he could find.
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No. You don’t know why.
The sanctuary colony in Mexico was an arrangement made with the permission of the Mexican government.
Now we know why. Romney obviously has a soft spot for illegal immigrants, given that his great-grandfather was one. At least, I haven’t seen a copy of an engraved invitation from Mexican President Manuel Gonzalez — who was in power in 1884 — to Miles Park Romney, asking him to migrate south and bring with him all the Mormons he could find.
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No. You don’t know why.
The sanctuary colony in Mexico was an arrangement made with the permission of the Mexican government. They were not there illegally. And they were American citizens.
The H1b program was terribly abused. Thousands of jobs went unfilled by qualified Americans because the job postings were purposely written with an absurd list of prerequistes. That laundry list of required skills just happened to be what diploma mills in India were churning out. When the programmers arrived here they were nearly universally worthless.