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(34,136 posts)There are still Romneys living in Mexico. Not all the family slunk back to the US during the Mexican Revolution, some stayed down there, in their Mormon enclave.
Send him to Afghanistan!
In besieged Mormon colony, Mitt Romneys Mexican roots
By Nick Miroff, Published: July 23, 2011
COLONIA JUAREZ, Mexico Three dozen of Mitt Romneys relatives live here in a narrow river valley at the foot of the western Sierra Madre mountains, surrounded by peach groves, apple orchards and some of the baddest, most fearsome drug gangsters and kidnappers in all of northern Mexico.
Like Mitt, the Mexican Romneys are descendants of Miles Park Romney, who came to the Chihuahua desert in 1885 seeking refuge from U.S. anti-polygamy laws. He had four wives and 30 children, and on the rocky banks of the Piedras Verdes River, he and his fellow Mormon pioneers carved out a prosperous settlement beyond the reach of U.S. federal marshals. He was Mitts great-grandfather.
Gaskell Romney, Mitts grandfather, settled in Mexico as well, and Mitts father, George Romney, was born in nearby Colonia Dublan raising the possibility of a 2012 presidential race between two contenders whose fathers were born outside the United States.
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But like the other Saints, Miles Park was also hounded by U.S. marshals, whose pursuit intensified after the 1882 Edmunds Act, which stripped thousands of polygamists of their ability to vote and other basic citizenship rights. Mitts great-grandfather was jailed for unlawful cohabitation, had his property confiscated and once had to evade federal agents by hiding in a wagon, according to the Thomas Romney biography.
More: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-besieged-mormon-colony-mitt-romneys-mexican-roots/2011/07/21/gIQAFGOXVI_story.html