Mitt Romney continues to say his father was an immigrant.
Yes George W. Romney Mitt’s father was born in Mexico in 1907 but George was born to American citizens. George’s parents Gaskell Romney and Anna Amelia Pratt were from Utah but they lived in a Mormon colony in Mexico. Actually you could say Mitt’s grandparents were immigrants to Mexico.
George age 5 and his parents had to flee Mexico due to the Mexican Revolution and they left everything behind and came back to America in 1912 with very little, but they were American citizens.
So in my opinion Mitt’s father George came to America not as an immigrant but as a citizen.
In 1968 George Romney ran for President if George was a true immigrant he wouldn't be allowed to run for President.
So maybe Mitt is stretching it a bit?
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Definitely, this is Mitt pandering to the potential Hispanic vote. It seems everyone is blurring all the distinctions of what makes one an 'immigrant' legal or illegal. The left tried to bring John McCain's candidacy into question because he was born in Panama...but his parents were both natural born Americans and he was born on a U.S. military base. Rather than debate and win on their ideas, both sides seem to want to win with gimmicks or by cutting the legs out from under their opponents.
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