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Anti-immigration Governor Susana Martinez has been critical of the Dream Act and has made many vitriolic remarks about illegal immigration. She even criticized Rick Perry for supporting a Dream Act in Texas.
“It is not comprehensive reform to put people who are here illegally, who violated the law, and put them in front of the line for those folks who have been waiting and doing all the right things to come to the United States.”
But now she has revealed that her own grandparents were undocumented immigrants who came to America in the 1930s. “I know they arrived without documents, especially my father’s father,” the Republican revealed Wednesday in an interview in Spanish with KLUZ-TV, the Albuquerque Univision affiliate.
Martinez has made state and national headlines for her stance against illegal immigrants and has been leading an effort to repeal a law that allows illegal immigrants to obtain a drivers license.
This is a stunning show of hypocrisy from a Republican Governor. Martinez wouldn’t even be Governor today had her grandparents been punished for entering the country illegally. Now she wants to punish illegal immigrants for seeking a better life as her grandparents had done.
As I type this, an American of whom I have never heard, and shall probably never hear again, is speaking on national television. He is the son of Pete Negron, a man who died 10 yrs ago today. This young man is speaking at the 9/11 ceremony in New York City. He says that after his father’s death, his mother, brother and he moved to Florida. He got a job, and enrolled into college. He’s says that he wishes that his dad “had been there to teach me how to drive, ask a girl out on a date, and see me graduate from high school. And a hundred other things that I can’t even begin to name. He worked in an environmental department and cared about the earth and our future. I know he wanted to make a difference. I admire him for that, and I would liked to have talked to him about such things. I’ve decided to become a forensic scientist. I hope that I can make my father proud of the young men that my brother and I have become. I miss you so much, Dad.” As I type now, Yo-Yo Ma is playing Bach………………… YO! Bint, Maha, David “Free”man …… I sure do hope his dad was legal, don’t you?
I’d appreciate these more if they were sourced.
La puta es una buena come mierda
Marcus, you can repeat it over and over, but it doesn’t change the facts and it doesn’t matter whether or not you think they discredit those who expose her. Her grandparents are relevant, because the fact that she knows this about them shows the hypocrisy of her views. Human migration occurs regardless of who approves or disapproves of it. She wants to change the way things have been done for thousands upon thousands of years, even though that’s how she ended up here.
must correct your headline; anti illegal immigration governor. please, be truthful, these minor ? lies discredit you, not her.