The now dispersed immigrant community still claims the senator as its own, and his base has grown to include other migrant communities.
The Vietnam War was reaching its end, the Cuban migration was in full swing and a 19-year-old Robert Menendez was already knee deep in his political career.
He’d aged out of his role as student council president at Union Hill High School, so he started a civic association and successfully led a movement to transition Union City’s school board to an elected one in 1974. And then with the help of Bill Musto, a politician now synonymous with Hudson County corruption, he got elected to it.
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