By DAVE HELLING and STEVE KRASKE
The Kansas City Star
The Missouri Democratic Party Tuesday released documents they said showed Rep. Roy Blunt tried to help an “illegal worker” in 1990, while he served as Missouri Secretary of State.
“Congressman Blunt hired an illegal worker and used his official office and Washington connections to try to expedite this worker’s case,” said Corey Platt with the state party. He also accused Blunt of hypocrisy for running a commercial critical of illegal immigration policy.
Blunt campaign spokesman Rich Chrismer called the accusations “desperate, dirty politics.”
“Robin Carnahan and her handlers have been shopping this false story to state and national reporters for months,” he said in a statement. “This person never worked for the Blunts. She simply helped out at a couple of church events. Constituents who are having problems with a government agency reach out to Roy Blunt all of the time and he passes this information on to the appropriate officials all of the time.”
The documents released Tuesday include a letter from Blunt, on state letterhead, asking then-INS Commissioner Gene McNary to address a case involving Dora Narvaez. Narvaez, the Blunt letter said, had “done some work” for Blunt’s wife at the time, Roseann.
“I believe her situation is properly expressed in her letter to Roseann,” Blunt wrote to McNary, a former St. Louis County Executive and a friend of Blunt’s. Narvaez’s letter was attached to the Blunt communication, Democrats said.
“I decided that if the guy you know best at Immigration and Naturalization happens to be the person in charge, then it’s all right to direct your correspondence to him,” Blunt wrote.
In her letter, Narvaez says she asked that her request for political asylum be transferred to the Kansas City immigration office from Los Angeles. She also asks for a “Departure Record I-94” as part of the process.
Narvaez is a native of Nicaragua.
The party said Tuesday the exchange shows Blunt tried to use his office to grant her “expedited citizenship.”
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