{"id":2152,"date":"2012-12-13T17:06:01","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T21:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=2152"},"modified":"2017-08-10T14:44:07","modified_gmt":"2017-08-10T18:44:07","slug":"menendez-we-need-comprehensive-amnesty-so-we-can-do-background-checks-to-look-for-information-background-checks-won%e2%80%99t-reveal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2012\/12\/13\/menendez-we-need-comprehensive-amnesty-so-we-can-do-background-checks-to-look-for-information-background-checks-won%e2%80%99t-reveal\/","title":{"rendered":"Menendez: We Need Comprehensive Amnesty So We Can Do Background Checks to Look for Information Background Checks Won\u2019t Reveal"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Wednesday, the Associate Press broke the story that Luis Abrahan Sanchez Zavaleta, an 18-year-old unpaid intern working in Sen. Robert Menendez\u2019s (R-N.J.) office, was not only an illegal alien, but also a registered sex offender. Moreover, the AP story indicated that ICE agents were prepared to arrest Sanchez in October, but were directed by high ranking officials at DHS to wait until after Election Day.<\/p>\n

<\/object><\/p>\n

Appearing on the friendly airwaves of MSNBC shortly after the news broke, Menendez asserted that his office only learned of Sanchez\u2019s immigration and criminal status on Dec. 10, four days after Sanchez was arrested by ICE. Menendez twice explained the hiring of Sanchez saying, \u201cWe certainly wouldn\u2019t have known through any background checks, since he is a minor, about any sex offender status.\u201d Later in the interview, Menendez again stressed, \u201cThere is no way we could know about any allegation, as juvenile, of what his background would be in terms of any sort of criminality.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then, in the very next breath, Menendez argues that this case is precisely why, in his view, we need a comprehensive amnesty for illegal aliens. \u201cIt does speak volumes about why we need comprehensive immigration reform because I can\u2019t know who is here to pursue the American dream versus who is here to do damage to it if I cannot get people to come forth out of the shadows and go through a criminal background check and\u2026make sure that those who have criminal backgrounds get deported.\u201d<\/p>\n

Huh? Didn\u2019t Menendez say twice that background checks would not have revealed Sanchez\u2019s criminal record? So what good is doing criminal background checks? In this case we are talking about someone who was found guilty of multiple counts of forcible sex with a child. How can Menendez, or any other member of Congress arguing for amnesty contend that bringing illegal aliens \u201cout of the shadows\u201d will make us all safer because they\u2019ll have to go through background checks, when, by his own admission, background checks would not even reveal a juvenile history of predatory sex offenses?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Wednesday, the Associate Press broke the story that Luis Abrahan Sanchez Zavaleta, an 18-year-old unpaid intern working in Sen. Robert Menendez\u2019s (R-N.J.) office, was not only an illegal alien, but also a registered sex offender. Moreover, the AP story indicated that ICE agents were prepared to arrest Sanchez in October, but were directed by<\/p>\n

Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[3,1513,6,4,10,7],"tags":[1009,1100],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2152"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14825,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152\/revisions\/14825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2152"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}