Republican New Mexico Governor Says Her Grandfather Was Undocumented

New Mexico Republican Governor Susana Martinez, an immigration restrictionist who recently went after Texas Governor Rick Perry on the Laura Ingraham Show for signing a bill extending in-state tuition rates to undocumented immigrants, has admitted that her grandfather was undocumented.

Martinez's admission came Wednesday in an interview in Spanish with KLUZ-TV, the Albuquerque Univision affiliate, the Associated Press says.

"I know they arrived without documents, especially my father's father," she said.

Martinez has referred to "illegal immigrants" in the past, so it's notable that she opts for the less pejorative description "without documents" when referring to her grandfather. Here’s Martinez' full answer to Ingraham, in response to her question about whether she supported Rick Perry's approach to immigration:

"No, I don't. It is not comprehensive reform to put people who are here illegally, who violated the law, and put them in front of the line for those folks who have been waiting and doing all the right things to come to the United States, to come here...

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