Posted on 12/12/2012 1:53:15 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Sen. Menendez pleads ignorance of sex offender intern
By Olivier Knox, Yahoo! News
White House Correspondent
By Olivier Knox, Yahoo! News | The Ticket 1 hr 4 mins ago
Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., listens to testimony by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Capitol Hill in October. Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey said Wednesday there was "no way" for him or his staff to know that an unpaid college intern in his office was in this country illegally and had registered as a sex offender.
Menendez told MSNBC that his staff learned of the situation on Monday and that he himself found out just moments before going on the program.
"I didn't know anything about the young man's status" before that, said the senator, a passionate advocate for a comprehensive overhaul of immigration policy, ostensibly the main subject of the interview.
The Associated Press reported on Wednesday that immigration authorities arrested Luis Abrahan Sanchez Zavaleta, an 18-year-old immigrant from Peru, last Thursday. Sanchez came to the United States on a now-expired visitor visa and may be deported. The exact nature of his sex-related offense was not immediately clear because it occurred when he was a minor, the AP said. The news agency cited an anonymous official as saying that the Homeland Security Department instructed federal agents not to arrest him until after Election Day.
"There's no way we could know about his status" from a standard background check because he was under 18 at the time of the infraction, Menendez told MSNBC. He also denied knowing anything about the alleged timing of the arrest.
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Because background checks, requests for "papers please", and security clearances are junk from the "old America" that must be stomped into dust.
Smug contempt for government Of the people, By the People, For the people -- is written all over their faces.
It's amazing what the McSheeple will tolerate as long as there's a teat in their mouth; and they will evidently do so right along through their box-car rides, and into the showers.
It was smug little NyLon-wearing punks like these who financed the military industrial complex of pre-Nazi Germany in the 1920's/30's.
Are we there yet?
Menendez was prolly told he was gonna let this clown work there anyway...in return for campaign $$$$$$
Mmmmm.......simply amazing how vote-crazed Menendez can pontificate about political issues AND suck-up to latinos----both at the same time. Maybe he uses Tabasco to pucker up? (cackle)
Guess all Menendez wants for Christmas is new knee pads with asbestos linings.....wore out his old ones getting elected last November.
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MENENDEZ ACTED ON ORDERS FROM THE THIRD WORLD? ----Menendez knowingly hired an illegal Peruvian sex offender--and had to have filed falsified official govt documents (a felony) with the Senate office to actuate the hire.
Course, Menendez "says" he "never knew" the guy was illegal and a predator.
Understandable----Menendez is from Hudson County. In HC Democrat circles, Menendez meets only criminals, ne'er do wells, opportunists, and incompetent hangers-on looking for govt jobs. The Peruvian musta looked like Honest Abe up against the usual HC scum.
FYI---The US State Dept once stopped taking passports from the HC Clerk's office---b/c they were fraudulent. Then- Gov Corzine appointed the HC latino county clerk forging the passports to a high post in his admin. Corzine also had a "Peruvian Pac" supporting his losing reelection bid.
Looks like Menendez's latino hire---- a criminal alien---was well-connected in HC Democrat circles.
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