Mexico Mormons say "stay away."

[RB TexLa]

Polygamists from Texas unwelcome in Mexico Mormon community

07:20 AM CDT on Thursday, May 8, 2008

By ALFREDO CORCHADO / The Dallas Morning News
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COLONIA LeBARON, Mexico — Nestled in the foothills of Chihuahua's Sierra Tarahumara, a community of breakaway Mormons is worried that polygamists from the sect in Eldorado, Texas, will seek refuge here — much as the founders did when they fled Utah beginning in the 1890s.

The community has worked hard for generations to gain acceptance here.

Though polygamy is outlawed in Mexico — just as in the U.S. — about 15 percent of the community still maintains polygamous relationships, with men getting around the law by taking on what they term “spiritual wives.”

Even so, their message to those wanting to seek legal refuge in Mexico is clear: Don't even think about moving here.

“The last thing we need here are a bunch of outlaws,” said Lillian Tucker, 40, a mother of 18 who practices polygamy, but is against forcing minors into marriage. “I don't recommend anyone that's committing a crime or that's using religion to become a pedophile to come down here, because they're not going to be welcome.”

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/050808dnmexicomormons.dc0e95bf.html

[aquart]

1. Ye gods. They think they're the GOOD polygamists.

What do they do with their teenage boys?

[elizfeelinggreat]

2. "using religion to become a pedophile"

At least she recognizes pedophilia is going on.

[iamahaingttta]

3. "Lillian Tucker, 40, a mother of 18..."

That, in and of itself, should be considered a crime!

[AlCzervik]

5. i'm sure if her uterus could file charges against her it would.

i can't believe it hasn't fallen out.

[rocktivity]

4. Fleeing Utah in the 1890's--wasn't Mitt Romney's family caught up in all that?

(Gets off shiftless lazy ass and does her own research) Yes, here it is:

...Mitt Romney’s father George was born in Chihuahua, Mexico...(Mitt's great-grandfather), a polygamist, moved the family there in 1884...The 1882 Edmunds Act stripped polygamists of the basic rights of U.S. citizenship...U.S. federal agents hunted and arrested polygamists...(They) were forced to leave the country or risk jail...

...(Mitt's grandparents),...who were monogamous...lived in Chihuahua until the height of the Mexican Revolution in 1912. (Mitt's grandmother), ...with Mitt’s (3-year-old) father George in tow, fled across the U.S. border by train with no apparent delay or search at the border. A short time later...(Mitt's grandfather), like many Mexican immigrants before and since, covered hundreds of miles under a hot sun, crossing by land into New Mexico...

As children of polygamists who were not born on U.S. soil, Mitt's grandparents had to know that they were not U.S. citizens--they should have applied for it once they entered the country, especially since Mitt's father wasn't born on U.S. soil, either. Mitt himself is in the clear because was born in Detroit. But his father may have served as governor of Michigan as an illegal alien!

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