New Mexico Susanna.Martinez (Susana Martinez) for illegal immigrants to obtain driver's licenses advocated a ban triggered national attention and criticism, her spokesman confirmed 8, Martinez has admitted that her grandfather, across the border from Mexico to the United States of illegal immigrants.
7 Martinez received KLUZ in Spanish television interview, said: "My grandfather generation of people to the United States without legal status, especially my father's father."
Martinez's grandfather was a report illegal crossings to the United States, appeared in the media many times over the years.Basically, the governor's office to take evasive way to respond, said Martinez's father in her young age, his grandfather has abandoned the family, so she can not determine the identity of his grandfather.
Martinez admitted the first time, the identity of his grandfather, her spokesman Darnell (Scott Darnell), said media reports quoted the 1930 census, the governor's grandfather is illegal immigration, but "the governor and her father and her grandfather did not have any relationship she had never seen his grandfather, did not know him. the governor's father about five years old, it was abandoned by her grandfather, her father was brought up by distant relatives. "
State of New Mexico state law, illegal immigrants can get driver's license.But Martinez push to repeal the law, become the focus of attention.
New Mexico State, Washington and Utah is the only three states that allow illegal immigrants to obtain driver's license.
In Santa Fe (Santa Fe) in this week's protests, activists and religious figures to Martinez's grandfather, for example, the governor said illegal immigrants should not be canceled driver's license state law.
As the country's first elected Hispanic governor, Martinez believes that her grandfather's immigration status with the current immigration problem does not matter, because the 1920 immigration law different from now.
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