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...Anna Amelia Pratt was born in the U.S. but also migrated to Mexico seeking protection because she was the granddaughter of Mormon apostle Parley Pratt, who had 12 wives and had also crossed the border seeking refuge. In Mexico she met Gaskell Romney, Mitt Romney’s grandfather. Their marriage took place in 1895 in Dublan, Mexico, and their children were born there...
...December 2007. Contrary to what most Republicans would have you believe, Mexican workers and other migrants don’t really compete for jobs with the five percent of America that is unemployed. They generally take unskilled and underpaid positions that other local workers don’t want. Romney knows this, but he denies it in the interest of electoral victory...
...quest to win conservative votes, Romney has lately toughened his tone against Mexican immigrants. His latest stance is that the border must be “secured” and that all migrants without work permits should be forced to leave the U.S. and apply for legal residency from their home countries...
...fact is that Romney’s great grandfather, Miles Park Romney, and numerous other Mormons who practiced polygamy, fled across the U.S. border to seek protection in Mexico in 1884. They went to Mexico to avoid the investigations into their marriage practices ordered by the U.S. Congress, according to reports by Associated Press...
...Miles Park Romney, who had five wives, took his children with him, one of whom was Romney’s grandfather. He and his fellow Mormons crossed into Mexico where they managed to get protection. Miles Park stayed in the northern areas of Mexico for 28 years, until 1912. This is why Romney’s father was born in Chihuahua, Mexico...