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Rush Holt’s voting record on national security is one filled with misguided actions, false assessments, and pleasing partisan loyalties. More specifically, Mr. Holt’s record on border security is as weak as the border is porous. He voted against bills that sought to stop drug and weapon smugglers, kidnappers, illegal immigrants, human traffickers, criminal marauders, and many other intrusive, subversive, and foreign assailants invading this nation every day, or at least wanting to. There is a serious problem on our southern border and Rush Holt fails to recognize it.
The enfeebled governments south of the border, especially our Mexican neighbor, are not having any success at all controlling the murderous atrocities now being committed on the border. These mismanaged problems have spilled over into our country, and is preventing us from enjoying the peace, liberty, security, and social tranquility we deserve as free citizens of an independent republic. It is time to clean out a festering sore that insidiously spreads its malignant streams into our national discourse. Before the November reckoning, we need to pause, and spend more time reflecting on Rush Holt’s very poor voting record. If we cannot ensure the integrity of our national borders, we cease to exist as a sovereign and independent nation.
Mr. Holt’s decade-long occupancy in Congress is marked by intemperate obstructions. He voted against H.R. 1141 (106th) 1999-2000 http://bit.ly/dndX6O, which provided $80 million “to support increased detention requirements for Central American criminal aliens and to address the expected influx of illegal immigrants from Central America as a result of Hurricane Mitch,” $750,000 “to expand the Southwest Border High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area” in New Mexico, and $750,000 “for the Southwest Border High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area” in Arizona.
Rush Holt was one of the 30% that tried to obstruct the passage of H.R. 5005 (107th) 2001-2002, the Homeland Security Act of 2002 http://bit.ly/aW2p2s. This significant piece of legislation - passed by more than two-thirds majority in the House, gaining the assent of ninety Senators, and receiving the President’s signature - was a step in the right direction. Rush Holt did not approve of this important step toward securing our borders. This bill gathered up disparate federal agencies and placed them in one department, with one budget, and one mission. The Directorate of Border and Transportation Security was created and is tasked with “preventing the entry of terrorists and the instruments of terrorism into the United States; securing the borders…carrying out the immigration enforcement functions” and “establishing and administering” necessary “rules governing the granting of visas.” The Directorate is responsible for “establishing national immigration enforcement policies and priorities.”
Rush Holt also voted against H.R. 6061 (109th) 2005-2006, the Secure Fence Act of 2006 http://bit.ly/ceIalg. He was one of the 32% to vote no, and one of the four representatives out of twelve from New Jersey’s delegation to do the same. This bill included provisions dealing with “systemic border surveillance” and “physical infrastructure enhancements,” which required “at least two layers of reinforced fencing, installation of additional physical barriers, roads, lighting, cameras, and sensors.” What are Rush Holt’s priorities? Obviously not the security of our borders, or our national interests, but, instead, they are partisan priorities.
The wise constituents of New Jersey’s 12th Congressional District must familiarize themselves with the sobering facts regarding Rush Holt’s dubious, and not well known, voting record dealing with border security. After all his noble speeches are made, and all the votes are finally tallied, Rush Holt consistently shows up in small minorities voting against a more secure and robust border policy. Given the sobering realities of a complex global arrangement, an array of threatening foreign dispositions, fragile relationships, and temporary alliances, suggests to this citizen, at least, that Rush Holt should not cast votes in Congress anymore. Mr. Holt is wrong on border security and the wrong choice in November. Rush Holt’s actions are harmful to our border security, and diminish our national sovereignty. Send Mr. Holt a message from the ballot box saying that you are fed up with partisan ploys and dissimulative exploits.
