Obama Admin Ordered ICE Agents to Wait Until After Election to Arrest Sen. Menendez’s Intern

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Newly released documents show that federal immigration agents were prepared to arrest an undocumented immigrant and registered sex offender days before the November elections.

However according to the internal agency documents, the agents were ordered by Washington to hold off after officials warned of “significant interest” from Congress and news organizations since the suspect was a volunteer intern for New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez.

Luis Abrahan Sánchez Zavaleta was an immigrant from Peru who had overstayed a visitor visa that allowed him to enter the United States. He eventually was arrested at his home in New Jersey on Dec. 6. He has since been released from an immigration jail and is facing deportation. Sanchez has declined to speak to the AP.

When The Associated Press first disclosed the delayed arrest of last month, Sanchez, 18, the Homeland Security Department said AP’s report was “categorically false.”

After the AP story, which cited an unnamed U.S. official involved in the case, Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa and six other Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee asked the Obama administration for details about the incident.

According to those documents, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Newark had arranged to arrest Sanchez at the local prosecutor’s office on Oct. 25. That was fewer than two weeks before the election.

Noting that Sanchez was a volunteer in Menendez’s Senate office, ICE officials in New Jersey advised that the arrest “had the possibility of garnering significant congressional and media interest” and were “advised to postpone the arrest” until officials in Washington gave approval. The documents describe a conference call between officials Washington and New Jersey to “determine a way forward, given the potential sensitivities surrounding the case.”

The senators, in a letter to the Homeland Security Department, said the agency documents showed that Sanchez’s arrest “was delayed by six weeks,” as AP had reported. They asked for details about the department’s review of potentially sensitive, high profile immigration cases when arrests are delayed.

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The surprising and sad thing is that I am no longer surprised by, nor unbelieving, when I read these almost weekly reports of this Administration’s use of their incumbency to practice such chicanery ………

I’d say “There oughtta be a law!“……. but there already are, aren’t there?

When I first saw the mug shot of this illegal I thought he was a woman.
If he were trying to look effeminant he could really pull it off!
I wonder why Menendez took him on?
Not his English proficiency.
Not his ability to review senatorial papers and create summaries, I bet.
So, what’s left?

And Reagan asked Iran to not release their hostage until after his election over Carter and his inauguration—so what?

@liberal1(objectivity):

And Reagan asked Iran to not release their hostage until after his election over Carter and his inauguration—so what?

Are you saying that Reagan had more influence over Iran that Obama has? If I were a liberal/progressive, I don’t think I would want to admit that.