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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ann Romney talked about her dad being an immigrant who came her for a better life.  All I could think was, WTF?  I guess he was more special then those wanting to come now for a "better life."  Oh, my bad - he was Welsh.[/quote]

Her dad was a child and came over with his grandfather, a miner with black lung AND another mining injury.  Quite a catch I can see how he got in.  And by that I mean he was WELSH.  if he was Mexican he would have been stopped at the border, bounced. Then he would enter illegally to become a drain on our health care system while the son would father Ann. The republicans would then be calling Ann an anchor baby.[/quote]

Pp is correct.  Ann Romney's father immigrated to the United States in 1929, five years after the passage of the Immigration Act of 1924 that seriously limited immigration from non-white countries.  Basically, her family benefited from racist legislation.  Here is the wikipedia summary:

[quote]The Immigration Act of 1924, or Johnson–Reed Act, including the National Origins Act, and Asian Exclusion Act (Pub.L. 68-139, 43 Stat. 153, enacted May 26, 1924), was a United States federal law that limited the annual number of immigrants who could be admitted from any country to 2% of the number of people from that country who were already living in the United States in 1890, down from the 3% cap set by the Immigration Restriction Act of 1921, according to the Census of 1890. It superseded the 1921 Emergency Quota Act. The law was aimed at further restricting the Southern and Eastern Europeans, mainly Jews fleeing persecution in Poland and Russia, who were immigrating in large numbers starting in the 1890s, as well as prohibiting the immigration of Middle Easterners, East Asians and Indians. According to the U.S. Department of State Office of the Historian, "In all its parts, the most basic purpose of the 1924 Immigration Act was to preserve the ideal of American homogeneity."[1] Congressional opposition was minimal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_Act_of_1924[/quote][/quote]

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