Menendez....son of legal or illegal immigrants?
As regards ITEM.... I’m told that most all meat sold has, at some point in the process, been handled by illegal aliens.
Heh---good question. He says Cuban parents were legal.
Menendez was born to Cuban immigrants who left their homeland in 1953, seeking economic and political freedom from the repressive government headed by Fulgencio Batista.His father, Mario, was a mechanic and his mother, Evangelina, a seamstress. The family subsequently moved to neighboring New Jersey where, growing up in Union City, he graduated from Union Hill High School.
After a B.A. from Saint Peter's College in Jersey City, he earned his Juris Doctor degree from Rutgers School of Law in Newark. He is a brother of Lambda Theta Phi Latin Fraternity, Inc.He was admitted to the New Jersey Bar in 1980 and became a lawyer in private practice.
He married (then divorced) Jane Jacobsen, a teacher for the Union City Board of Education, and the couple had two children: Alicia, a graduate of Harvard University, and Robert, a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
In December 2005, then-Cong Menendez was appointed by Jon Corzine to fill the remaining year in the Senate seat from which Corzine resigned upon being elected Governor of New Jersey. While several other names had been mentioned, Menendez was the early favorite among pundits for Governor-elect Corzine's replacement to fill the vacancy that would be created when Corzine resigned from the Senate.
Corzine's decision to appoint Menendez got the support of several Latino groups, including the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials. Menendez was the sixth Latino to serve in the United States Senate.