Geraldo Rivera: ¡El padre de Romney es de Mexico! Who Knew?

Mitt Romney’s father, former Michigan governor George Romney was born in Mexico. That’s shocking right? Even though the story has apparently been out there for months, I never heard it. What is even more shocking is that the admission came from the virulently anti-illegal immigration presidential candidate himself. Perhaps in an effort to beat to the punch an investigative report by the excellent Mike Taibbi on Brian Williams’ “30 Rock” program Monday night, on Sunday afternoon Mitt Romney suddenly mentioned Latino immigrants in a context other than ‘Round them up. Sort them out. And send the illegal ones back where they came from. He admitted in passing that his dad was born there.

Taibbi traveled to what remains of the ancestral home of the Romney’s of Mexico, Colonia Juarez and Colonia Dublan, two Mormon settlements just 175 miles south of the U.S. border. There Taibbi spoke with Leighton Romney, the candidate’s second cousin and recounted the family’s saga of South of the Rio Grande.

There is no value to allegations against Romney. Mitt Romney is a natural born citizen and eligible for the U.S. Presidency