Posted on 06/29/2013 10:27:29 AM PDT by SMGFan
Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) on Friday said it was personally “painful” for him to vote for the “border surge” amendment which aided passage of immigration reform in the Senate, but expressed optimism that the Gang of Eight’s bill was a crucial step towards resolving the contentious issue.
“It was painful to me, and not only in the sense that I believe that it’s a bad policy, as chairman of the Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee, I believe that it’s a bad policy regarding neighboring countries,” said Menendez in an interview with Univision, according to a transcript.
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Says the pedophile..
Try to block illegal voters and future democrat voters?
That is painful!
I bet a lot of his rich liberal friends live in gated communities with security. Or buildings with securtity & fences. Isn’t that Bad policy toward their neighbors!
Pullleeezzz—can’t just even one of our congresscritters be smart enough to pass the same immigration law that Mexico has? It seems to me that then neither the Mexican government nor the ILLEGALS that have come from any country could complain that we are being harsh.
Meanwhile, back at the Dominican Republic lil’ baby bunny ranch...
"The Corker-Hoeven amendment will be portrayed as a victory for Republicans and a major concession by the Democrats. It is all political theater to distract from the devastating impact this bill will have on American workers -- unskilled and skilled. Both parties have abandoned the American worker. At one time we were told that immigrants do jobs Americans won't (a lie) do. Now we must bring in more skilled workers to do jobs Americans can't (another lie) do. As one of Rubio aides so artfully put it:
There are American workers who, for lack of a better term, can't cut it. There shouldn't be a presumption that every American worker is a star performer. There are people who just can't get it, can't do it, don't want to do it. And so you can't obviously discuss that publicly.
Heh... I think a lot of people “solved” the Rubik’s Cube that way (ie., repainting the squares).
A couple of years ago,when driving from North Dakota into Canada the Canadian border officials detained me (not an arrest...no handcuffs...but I wasn't free to leave) for 90 minutes while they literally pulled apart the trunk of my car and demanded the password to my PC,which they examined for about 20 minutes.God only knows what they were looking for but I,being a very boring guy,had nothing illegal.I think these guards were just bored...theirs was a huge facility that,at the time,had two "civilian" vehicles parked there...mine and one from Alaska.Other than that the place was absolutely dead.Yes,I was admitted after the 90 minute search.
*But*,were these Canadian officials engaging in "bad policy" or just trying to protect their country from the scourge of Gay State Conservative? I doubt that it was the former.
Yawn---just another sordid episode in "Profiles of the Latino Criminal Underworld"----denizens of a shadowy industry where a lot of money changes hands; where bribe make 'em say or do anything.
BACKSTORY Way back in 2006, Menendez had absconded to his donor pal's getaway in the swanky Casa de Campo Dominican Republic resort---Booby was fleeing from nosey US reporters, but he happily cooperated with The Dominican daily, Listin Diario.
On Aug. 22, 2006, Diario published a photo captioned: “Bob Menéndez, the senator from New Jersey, gave an interview (in Spanish) to Listin Diario at the residence of his donor---eye Doctor Salomón Melgen (a Florida resident), at Casa de Campo.”
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STROLL DOWN MEMORY LANE 2006 was a banner year for Booby Menendez: the Congressman had just become a US Senator. But Menendez was annoyed b/c he was being investigated in a rent-for-influence deal by the US Attorney. As landlord for a Newark non-profit, Menendez collected more than $300,000 in rent. As a Congressman, he helped the agency get federal grants.
IN POLITICS ONE HAND WASHES THE OTHER Employees of the N/P agency contributed $33,450 to Menendez’s campaigns. When a furor erupted, Menendez absconded to the Dominican Republic and gave interviews there in Spanish. He returned here when the furor died down.
NOT TO WORRY The lease stated the n/p agency’s ability to pay was dependent on the agency getting certain federal/state funding. Menendez "said" he had permission from Mark Davis of the House Ethics Committee in 1994 before entering the lease. But a Capitol Hill publication said Davis didn’t work there at that juncture. And when Menendez's self-serving deal was outed, Mr Davis was incommunicado---he was a corpus delecti.
Booby had escaped unscathed.....ole.
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FAST FORWARD TO TODAY Booby hired a Peruvian illegal who was a registered sex offender to work in his DC office as a "volunteer".......but nobody could say who paid the guy's rent, transportation costs, meals, etc.....
Booby cavorted w/ underage Dominican prostitutes who complained he shorted them on the price.
Menendez used his position and US govt authority and OUR resources to discourage plans by the United States government to donate port security equipment to the Dominican Republic to detect drug cargo.
Menendez cited concern that the advanced screening gear might undermine efforts by a private company — a company run by Menendez's major campaign contributor---a friend w/ dual residences in Miami and the Dominican Republic...Dr Melgen.
Menendez's intervention with the Department of Homeland Security came even though Mr. Menendez has publicly chastised the Obama administration for not doing more to combat the surging drug traffic moving through Dominican ports.
And it came shortly after the senator’s Miami friend, Dr. Salomon E. Melgen, arranged to meet with a senior State Dept official, accompanied by a former aide to Mr. Menendez........in a related push to protect his company's port security contract, which is worth as much as $500 million over 20 years.
Menendez has only acknowledged three Dominican visits--all in 2010--then belatedly paid Melgen $58,500 in January 2013 as reimbursement for two trips. The DSSC, which he then-headed, paid for the third, part of a fundraising swing.
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The dreaded "Christie appointee" is the only thing standing between Menendez and a celibate life as a civilian in a tenement in downtown Hudson County. Legacy-obsessed Obama needs Menendez in the Senate (and latino votes) to takeover the US govt. Upsetting the taco truck is NOT an option.
Yup, like trapped rats when all hell breaks loose.
it is not immigration “reform”. the word is used to gloss over the fact that these are illegal immigrants. they have broken the law. not to mention that no country has survived by letting hordes of invaders spill into their land. I don’t know what has happened in this country but down is up and left is right. it’s a shame.
I wrote Rubio today and asked to be removed from his mailing list. I called him Schumers be-atch, and McCains mini-me.
Who votes for these people? He doesn’t represent other countries—he is supposed to be representing citizens here in the US. This is essentially him facilitating the looting of the US.
Not to worry.
Border enforcement will NEVER happen under their bill.
It’s all a sham.
That’s a great idea, have someone put forth a bill that has exactly the same restrictive measures as Mexico and put it top a vote. Then when all of these a**hats vote against it ask them why it’s wrong for us to have the same policy for our border as Mexico!
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