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KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
Wed Mar 25, 2015, 01:34 PM Mar 2015

Jeb's Wife's Father Was An Undocumented Immigrant. Will GOP Primary Voters Be OK With That?

http://crooksandliars.com/2015/03/jebs-wifes-father-was-undocumented

I knew that Jeb Bush's wife, Columba, was born and raised in Mexico, but until I read this Washington Post story over the weekend, I didn't realize that her father was an undocumented worker in America for a while, and later became a legal worker under a program that I'm sure would be described by right-wingers as "amnesty":...

After World War II, it was common to cross the border without proper papers, said Columba’s uncle, Antonio Garnica Rodriguez, who made the trek, too. “We just went across the border, worked, stayed there for a while and came back.”...

Are GOP primary primary voters going to be cool with that?

There's also some mystery surrounding Columba's legal status in the years before her 1974 marriage to Jeb, according to the Post:


Why not? They're cool with Ted being a hoser, eh?
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Jeb's Wife's Father Was An Undocumented Immigrant. Will GOP Primary Voters Be OK With That? (Original Post) KamaAina Mar 2015 OP
Complete non-issue. Nye Bevan Mar 2015 #1
Cruz has some pretty large safeinOhio Mar 2015 #2

Nye Bevan

(25,406 posts)
1. Complete non-issue.
Wed Mar 25, 2015, 01:37 PM
Mar 2015

What will hurt Jeb with primary voters is his continuing support for immigration reform. He will be at his lectern during the debates with the likes of Cruz lobbing missile after missile at him on this issue.

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