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Originally Posted by Kathy63

If Uncle Obama and Aunt Obama hadn't had a nephew in the white house they would have been deported already.

Perhaps so.

However, the fact that New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez' grandfather was, according to the standards of his time, an illegal alien has as much to do with her as slavery in the United States 150 years ago has to do with you.

Are you responsible for or somehow condone the enslavement of black people? Of course not.

Is governor Martinez responsible for the fact that a grandfather - particularly someone who abandoned his wife and children - was illegally present in the United States?

While in the name of public safety and security she seeks to deny driver's licenses to illegal aliens, Some will consider her to be of the status as her derilict grandfather, and others will decry her for "forgetting her heritage" - beaten from both sides.

The truth is that she is who she is, not her past grandfather, not a present traitor, not what anyone else would push her into being.

She has Mexican ancestors, but she is not Mexican. She may be brown, but she is an American. It's time to get past the notion that ancestry equals nationality, political belief, and sympathy to specific agendas. People shouldn't be punished for the sins of their ancestors nor for the sins of people who may physically resemble them