Senator Menendez’s foolish MLB antics
Posted on 11 May 2010
The Hudson County Reporter today highlighted the following news for our Senator:
U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), in a letter sent on Monday to the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA), encouraged the association to boycott next year’s All-Star Game in Phoenix to protest the recently passed Arizona law to crack down on illegal immigrants.
Menendez, the former Union City mayor and the only Hispanic serving in the U.S. Senate, stated in the letter that “Latinos represent 27 percent of all MLB players and 28 percent of MLB players are foreign born,” and “these players come to the United States legally and should not be subjected to the humiliation and harassment that SB1070 would inflict.”
My first reaction to Senator Menendez letter is one of priorities. While the state he represents is a mess and the federal government is rapidly following the same path, he is worrying about an Arizona law that mimics a federal law that the federal government refuses to enforce. And while he may align himself with his friends from La Raza and their friends in various communist protest organizations, the state of New Jersey has nothing to do with this fight. The MLB players he is worrying about are no different (albeit much higher paid) that the large number of Indian programmers that work in the technology industry that seem to have no fear whatsoever about this bill. Baseball players and anyone else who are here legally have nothing to fear from this bill. And Menendez must be having severe mental difficulties(or think that we have them) to even suggest the argument.
And what apppears to be a mistake in the article is quite telling(emphasis is mine):
Menendez, 56, born in New York City and living in New Jersey most of his life, is the son of Cuban immigrants who came to the U.S. in 1953. He currently represents New Jersey’s 13th District, which includes most of Hudson County, with Hispanics making up about 47 percent of the district’s population.
Actually, Senator Menendez does not just represent his local Hispanic population. He represents the people of New Jersey. And some day soon he should start doing it.
Read the article here.
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