Senator employs illegal immigrant sex offender

 Kevin Danielsen December 13, 2012 10:13 am

It’s not always easy to know who’s who these days, especially for employers. Knowing if you’re employing a criminal or illegal alien isn’t always the easiest thing find out.  So, the fact that a Democratic US Senator from New Jersey accidentally allowed an illegal immigrant sex offender to be an intern isn’t really that crazy of an issue …mistakes happen.  The AP writes:

Sen. Robert Menendez employed as an unpaid intern in his Senate office an illegal immigrant who was a registered sex offender, now under arrest by immigration authorities, The Associated Press has learned.

Obviously, Senator Robert Menedez would never want to employ an illegal immigrant sex offender considering the damage that could do to a bid for reelection.  In addition, the report makes it absolutely clear that the Senator would never have been able to find out the legal and criminal status of Luis Abrahan Sanchez Zavaleta, the intern, because none of his incriminating information ever showed up in databases that the Senator’s staff would have checked.  However, that still is not where the problem lies…
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According to the same AP report, The US Department of Homeland Security didn’t direct Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to arrest the criminal until after the election.  While the DHS denies this, the AP’s unnamed sources at ICE say that they were frustrated, because the DHS told them to stand down multiple times:

Authorities in Hudson County notified ICE agents in early October that they suspected Sanchez was an illegal immigrant who was a registered sex offender and who may be eligible to be deported. ICE agents in New Jersey notified superiors at the Homeland Security Department because they considered it a potentially high profile arrest, and DHS instructed them not to arrest Sanchez until after the November election, one U.S. official told the AP. ICE officials complained that the delay was inappropriate, but DHS directed them several times not to act, the official said.

The fact that the DHS ‘instructed them not to arrest Sanchez until after the November election’, blatantly says that the DHS was directly involved in influencing the outcome of an election.  Had this information come out in a timely, ethical manner as it should have, the outcome of the election may have been different.
So, why was the DHS going through all that trouble to protect Sen. Menedez in the first place?  Your guess is as good as mine.