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Illegal Immigrant Sex Offender Working for Dem. Senator Arrested — and Homeland Security Delayed It Until After Election!

Dec. 12, 2012 3:12pm
Illegal Immigrant Sex Offender Working for New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez Arrested | Homeland Security Delayed Until After Election

This Sept. 27, 2012 file photo shows Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J. speaking in Sayreville, N.J. Menendez employed as an unpaid intern in his Senate office an illegal immigrant and registered sex offender who has now been arrested by immigration authorities. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, File)

WASHINGTON (TheBlaze/AP) — U.S. 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. The Homeland Security Department instructed federal agents not to arrest him until after Election Day, a U.S. official involved in the case told the AP.

Luis Abrahan Sanchez Zavaleta, an 18-year-old immigrant from Peru, was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in front of his home in New Jersey on Dec. 6, two federal officials said. Sanchez, who entered the country on a now-expired visitor visa from Peru, is facing deportation and remains in custody. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss details of Sanchez’s immigration case.

A spokesman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement did not immediately respond to a request for further details.

Menendez, D-N.J., who advocates aggressively for pro-immigration policies, was re-elected in November with 58 percent of the vote. Congressional staffers who work for Menendez were notified about Sanchez’s case shortly after the arrest. Sanchez told ICE agents that he worked on immigration issues for the senator. A spokesman for Menendez said she was looking into the matter.

Online jail records did not indicate whether Sanchez has an attorney. Immigration officials there were relaying a request from the AP to speak with Sanchez in jail.

The prosecutor’s office in Hudson County, N.J., said Sanchez was found to have violated the law in 2010 and subsequently required to register as a sex offender. The exact charge was unclear because Sanchez was prosecuted as a juvenile and those court records are not publicly accessible. The prosecutor’s office confirmed to AP that Sanchez registered as a sex offender, although his name does not appear on the public registry.

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.

It was not immediately clear why federal immigration authorities would not have been notified sooner about Sanchez’s status.

During discussions about when and where to arrest Sanchez, the U.S. reviewed Sanchez’s application for permission to stay in the country as part of President Barack Obama’s policy to allow up to 1.7 million young illegal immigrants avoid deportation and get permission to work for up to two years. As a sex offender, he would not have been eligible. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, which oversees the program known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, notified Sanchez of that shortly before his arrest, one official said.

During the final weeks of President George W. Bush’s administration, ICE was criticized for delaying the arrest of President Barack Obama’s aunt, who had ignored an immigration judge’s order to leave the country several years earlier after her asylum claim was denied. She subsequently won the right to stay in the United States after an earlier deportation order, and there was no evidence of involvement by the White House.

In that case, the Homeland Security Department had imposed an unusual directive days before the 2008 election requiring high-level approval before federal agents nationwide could arrest fugitive immigrants including Zeituni Onyango, the half-sister of Obama’s late father. The directive from ICE expressed concerns about “negative media or congressional interest,” according to a copy of that directive obtained by AP. The department lifted the immigration order weeks later.

Days before the 2012 election, two unnamed women from the Dominican Republic told the Daily Caller that Menendez had paid them for sex earlier in the year.

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Comments (83)

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  • The-Monk
    Posted on December 12, 2012 at 3:49pm

    I guess Peruvians don’t have a “get out of jail free card” like the Mexicans have…

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    • Stoic one
      Posted on December 12, 2012 at 5:41pm

      Nope, just a stay out of jail UNTIL AFTER the election card.

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      Stoic one  
    • johnpaulkuchtajr
      Posted on December 12, 2012 at 6:13pm

      Let’s not forget Major Nidal Hasan, whose case has now been delayed because the judge was dismissed for perceived bias against Hasan.

      With a little nudge here and there to the right general, Hasan will avoid facing 13 counts of murder until Obama’s hand picked successor takes office in January 2017. By then, who knows? Hasan may wind-up being the poster boy for recruiting members of the Ayatollah Obama’s elite Muslim Guard.

      BTW, Obama’s hand-picked successor is none other than ……..

      ……………………..? Eric Holder.

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    • old white guy
      Posted on December 13, 2012 at 6:37am

      honesty, intergrity, morality all are missing from the current government. all those who support the government are equally evil and there is no such thing as an honest demcrat, if there were they would be screaming about such blatant manipulation. amazing how in just my lifetime the u.s. has gone so far down. the bottom is very close folks.

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    • desertspeaks
      Posted on December 13, 2012 at 7:51pm

      deport a spanish speaking illegal, who’s a sex offender???? that’s one of obama’s voting bases! well it’s no wonder that DHS ordered them to hold off on arresting him until after the election, they wanted his vote!!

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      desertspeaks  
    • ICRedifURBlue
      Posted on December 14, 2012 at 12:29am

      employed as an unpaid intern in his Senate office ………….. Sounds like somebody just lost his Boy-Toy………

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      ICRedifURBlue  
  • doomytram
    Posted on December 12, 2012 at 3:44pm

    The list of scandals, lies, and cover ups, that the Obozo minions delayed until after the election is as long as an unabridged dictionary. Obozo and his Federal Clowns are in charge now. Your Liberty is getting chipped away at like a rat does cheese.

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    • 83plus
      Posted on December 12, 2012 at 4:23pm

      Makes me wonder what other scandals the homeland security is keeping ‘hidden’.

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      83plus  
  • WillG
    Posted on December 12, 2012 at 3:44pm

    If this were a Republican Senator he would be run out office. You know it,I know it.

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    WillG  
    • My Two Cents
      Posted on December 12, 2012 at 4:30pm

      So would the Director of Homeland Security.

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      My Two Cents  
    • TEARS FOR AMERICA
      Posted on December 13, 2012 at 7:39am

      This story sadly has been hidden from sight and it is a horror…they all knew and did nothing. How many other pimps are there in Congress and this Administration?

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      TEARS FOR AMERICA  
  • ResistSocialism
    Posted on December 12, 2012 at 3:43pm

    not surprising

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    ResistSocialism  
  • armyofnibiru
    Posted on December 12, 2012 at 3:43pm

    and romney was attacked and told he can;t run for any office because he hired a company that he didn’t know used illegals and fired them when he found out,but at least he did’nt eat his dog.

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  • huey6367
    Posted on December 12, 2012 at 3:41pm

    More proof the election was stolen.

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  • thegreatcarnac
    Posted on December 12, 2012 at 3:38pm

    ICE delays Illegal sex offender’s arrest until after the election because ICE had orders to do so from Homeland Security?????? I did not know that a relatively new organization like Homeland security has that much power. I would think that the director of ICE would make those decisions. I wonder who ordered Homeland Security to order ICE to ignore the sex offender until after the election. Could it be a little wormy looking black man from Kenya???

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on December 12, 2012 at 3:54pm

      Any government agency across history with “-land>” in its title has always assumed massive powers in very short time after their implementation. At least we had the good grace not to go with “Mother” or “Father” and come up with something a bit more generic, gender neutral and utterly politically correct in “Home”, wouldn’t you say?

      It will be interesting to see how history looks back on this time in America.

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  • BSdetector
    Posted on December 12, 2012 at 3:36pm

    This info was out BEFORE the election and the sheeple STILL voted for him. NJ is as bad as cali

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  • Cavallo
    Posted on December 12, 2012 at 3:36pm

    You can’t trust federal law enforcement to have an unbiased unpolitical enforcement of State “law”. DHS, ATF, FBI, EPA, IRS are all enforcement arms of the Administrations political desires. You live in a police state. Thank a vet for our lol “freedoms”, just don’t pray for them, Das ist Verboten.

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  • jessieH
    Posted on December 12, 2012 at 3:32pm

    The Senator needs to be thrown out of office. He hired an illegal & the guy is a sex offender. That’s not the kind of man we need in office.

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on December 12, 2012 at 3:32pm

    What else is new? Corruption to the core is standard for this treasonous criminal administration.

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    Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}  
  • mattmo79
    Posted on December 12, 2012 at 3:31pm

    Whatever and we are somehow surprised that the DHS is political in how they execute their jobs!

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  • PATTY HENRY
    Posted on December 12, 2012 at 3:29pm

    CORRUPTION? THY name is Democrat. Unions using the excuse that Right-to-workers are ‘riding on the efforts of the Unions’ use and argument that can’t stand up under scrutiny: Union members should NOT have to give up their Privacy in voting; They should be free to decide if they want to be or not in Unions. UNIONS ruin business, drive Industry out of the USA, Kill jobs and the only people who make $$$ are the UNION BOSSES. Companies who don’t pay fair wages can’t get good employees. EVERY SINGLE STATE that is turning it around is being Governed by A REPUBLICAN GOV.
    HAVING SAID THAT: Dems have no respect for Laws/Rules/Constitution and think it’s okay if they can get away with it. SO we’ve been lied to about BENGHAZI; VOTES from MILITARY were thrown Out; Lied to about these Corrupt Congressmen/women; Had election stolen from us in FLORIDA, OHIO, PENNSYLVANIA (who knows else) … What WE, the PEOPLE, have to do is simple: Change the voting system and not like that corrupt SOB Holder wants us (Auto Registration?? REALLY YOU DOPE??? AUTOMATIC…so they can bus people from poll to poll and vote??) That is our job one. That is our focus. We do this and we have a chance…otherwise, like this dopey Congressman, it’s going to become worse and worse.

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  • sjh0627
    Posted on December 12, 2012 at 3:26pm

    yuck, what a dirty sanchez!

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    sjh0627  
    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on December 12, 2012 at 3:36pm

      You know, I thought about posting what you did, but hesitated. You sir are a boundary stretching fellow!

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      GhostOfJefferson  
    • Zipit
      Posted on December 12, 2012 at 3:51pm

      A dirty Sanchez? Sounds like some perverted sex act you would be subjected to after dinner at Taco Bell with Barney Frank!

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      Zipit  
    • Strange_Paradox
      Posted on December 12, 2012 at 5:11pm

      @zipit

      You have that pretty close to the mark…..

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      Strange_Paradox  
  • GhostOfJefferson
    Posted on December 12, 2012 at 3:25pm

    This is my surprised face.

    Ah, America. Where people here illegally get a pass, where we have something called a “Homeland” now along with a myriad of unconstitutional agencies that send out thugs to harass us. Where we have government cameras popping up on every corner, and even in buses now. Where a sniveling little socialist sits in the office of POTUS, and where the SCOTUS sneers at us that judging the law is beneath them. Where our tax rates are abysmally high and inflation is eating up our earnings to the tune of 85 billion new fake dollars printed per month. Where you can be ridiculed and screamed at in hate, or even have violence inflicted on you without recourse, if you’re not on the side of the socialists.

    And we’re paying taxes and complying with any of this again is…why precisely?

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  • J_Ind_Boston
    Posted on December 12, 2012 at 3:25pm

    I don;t know why they would have delayed letting people know, he probably would have gotten elected by 75% if the sheeple knew about it.

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  • progressiveslayer
    Posted on December 12, 2012 at 3:25pm

    Ah yes the ubiquitous illegal alien doing his part to destroy Amerika with his partner in crime the progressive pig Menendez. Not to worry folks Barrys depression is right around the corner and it’ll take care of the illegal alien problem.

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  • Atilla
    Posted on December 12, 2012 at 3:24pm

    Leftist would vote for the sex offender if it had a D after his name.

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    Atilla  
  • mellowlady
    Posted on December 12, 2012 at 3:23pm

    I was looking at the local news for Fresno and noticed that earlier in the year a female teacher who was shacking up with a 16 year old student got off with just probation and didn’t have to register as a sex offender. Fresno’s major is a woman. I wonder if women are getting special treatment since the major is a woman?

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  • curmudgeon60
    Posted on December 12, 2012 at 3:23pm

    How much MORE has this administration hidden?! GoodGrief! This person was on an EXPIRED visa-like so many others receiving entitlements and subsidized housing as well! The “transparent” Administration of Obama–and NOTHING will be done!

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  • AProudConservative
    Posted on December 12, 2012 at 3:23pm

    Hey, it’s OK. He’s a democrat!!!

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    • Unbelievable
      Posted on December 12, 2012 at 3:24pm

      You’re right!! Nothing to see here folks, nothing at all!

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      Unbelievable  
    • edcoil
      Posted on December 12, 2012 at 3:24pm

      How can an unpaid intern live, eat, travel and do work here? Where was his income from?

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      edcoil  
    • edcoil
      Posted on December 12, 2012 at 3:25pm

      How does an unpaid intern live in this country? How does he live, eat, travel, etc? Where does his income come from?

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      edcoil  
  • gyro
    Posted on December 12, 2012 at 3:21pm

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    Sanchez told ICE agents that he worked on immigration issues for the senator
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    Looks like Sanchez would fit right in at the white house

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    gyro  
    • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
      Posted on December 12, 2012 at 4:01pm

      Immigration issues means mapping how to get into the U.S. and then how to receive welfare, disability, childcare, obamaphone, etc.

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  • hauschild
    Posted on December 12, 2012 at 3:18pm

    “Illegal Immigrant Sex Offender Working for Dem. Senator Arrested — and Homeland Security Delayed It Until After Election!”

    Sieg Heil! ["Hail victory!"]

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    hauschild  
  • OldSurfRat
    Posted on December 12, 2012 at 3:18pm

    How Convenient

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    OldSurfRat  
  • coyote1hell
    Posted on December 12, 2012 at 3:17pm

    Just a typical Democrap……nothing new here…that’s all

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    coyote1hell  
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