House Votes to Re-Militarize the U.S./Mexico Border
by
Miroslava Flores
La Voz de Aztlan
September 29, 2001Anti-immigrant groups have seized upon the New York and Washington terrorist attacks to push for re-militarizing the US/Mexico border. On Tuesday September 25, 2001 the House of Representatives voted in favor of a plan to place the U.S. Army and other armed military personnel along the 2000 mile stretch that separates the United States from Mexico. The U.S. Armed Forces had been stopped from acting as the U.S Border Patrol after armed troops shot and killed 18-year-old Ezequiel Hernandez in Texas. Ezequiel Hernandez was a a U.S. citizen who was tending his sheep on his family's farm when U.S. Armed Forces shot him in the back.
This is a land of immigrants from all over the world and we must not allow the few "white European based" and Jewish groups determine our immigration policies. There is no doubt, judging from these group's prior statements, that they want to keep the United States "lily white". These people fear those who are not white or who's native language is other than English. They are very ethnocentric and are the cause of why the world hates America so much. These anti-Mexican and anti-immigrant groups where once called "The Ugly Americans" and their historical policies towards the rest of the world is what caused the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Penatgon.
La Voz de Aztlan has obtained the following Roll Call vote of how each congressmen voted on HR 2586. Our publication will be tracking how congress votes and specially how the Congressional Hispanic Caucus votes on important issues affecting La Raza.
FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL = 356 (Republicans in roman; Democrats in italic; Independents=20 underlined)
HR 2586 RECORDED VOTE = 25-SEP-2001=20 7:46=20 PM
AUTHOR(S): Trafican= t of=20 Ohio Amendment =
QUESTION: On=20 Agreeing to the Amendment
AYES NOES PRES NV REPUBLICAN 191 25 2 DEMOCRATIC 50 147 13 INDEPENDENT 1 1 TOTALS 242 173 15
--- = AYES 242=20 --- Aderholt Granger Pallone Akin Graves Pascrell Armey Green (WI) Pence Bachus Greenwood Phelps Baker Grucci Pickering Ballenger Gutknecht Pitts Barcia Hall (OH) Platts Barr Hall (TX) Pombo Bartlett Hansen Pomeroy Barton Hart Portman Bass Hastings (WA) Price (NC) Biggert Hayes Pryce (OH) Bilirakis Hayworth Quinn Bishop Hefley Ramstad Blunt Herger Regula Boehlert Hilleary Rehberg Bonilla Hobson Reynolds Bono Hoekstra Riley Boswell Horn Rivers Boyd Hostettler Roemer Brady (TX) Houghton Rogers (KY) Brown (SC) Hulshof Rogers (MI) Bryant Hunter Rohrabacher Burr Hyde Ros-Lehtinen Burton Isakson Rothman Callahan Israel Roukema Calvert Issa Royce Camp Istook Ryun (KS) Cannon John Saxton Cantor Johnson (CT) Schaffer Capito Johnson (IL) Schrock Carson (OK) Johnson, Sam Sensenbrenner Castle Jones (NC) Sessions Chabot Kaptur Shadegg Chambliss Keller Shaw Coble Kelly Shays Collins Kennedy (MN) Sherwood Combest Kerns Shimkus Cooksey Kildee Shows Costello Kind (WI) Shuster Cox King (NY) Simmons Cramer Kingston Simpson Crane Kirk Smith (NJ) Crenshaw Knollenberg Smith (TX) Cubin LaHood Souder Culberson Langevin Spratt Cunningham Lantos Stearns Davis (FL) Largent Stenholm Davis, Jo Ann Latham Strickland Davis, Tom LaTourette Stump Deal Lewis (CA) Sununu DeLay Lewis (KY) Sweeney DeMint Linder Tancredo Deutsch Lipinski Tauscher Diaz-Balart LoBiondo Tauzin Doolittle Lowey Taylor (MS) Duncan Lucas (KY) Taylor (NC) Dunn Lucas (OK) Thomas Emerson Luther Thune English Maloney (CT) Thurman Eshoo Manzullo Tiahrt Etheridge Matheson Tiberi Everett McCarthy (MO) Toomey Ferguson McCarthy (NY) Traficant Fletcher McCrery Udall (CO) Foley McHugh Udall (NM) Forbes McIntyre Upton Fossella McKeon Vitter Frelinghuysen McNulty Walden Gallegly Mica Walsh Gekas Miller (FL) Wamp Gephardt Miller, Gary Watkins (OK) Gibbons Moran (KS) Watts (OK) Gilchrest Morella Weldon (FL) Gillmor Myrick Weldon (PA) Gilman Nethercutt Weller Goode Ney Wicker Goodlatte Northup Wolf Gordon Norwood Young (AK) Goss Nussle Young (FL) Graham Otter
--- = NOES 173=20 --- Abercrombie Frank Oberstar Ackerman Frost Obey Allen Ganske Olver Andrews Gonzalez Ortiz Baca Green (TX) Osborne Baird Gutierrez Ose Baldacci Harman Owens Baldwin Hastings (FL) Oxley Barrett Hill Pastor Becerra Hilliard Paul Bentsen Hinchey Payne Bereuter Hinojosa Pelosi Berkley Hoeffel Petri Berman Holden Putnam Berry Holt Radanovich Blagojevich Honda Rahall Blumenauer Hooley Rangel Boehner Hoyer Reyes Bonior Inslee Rodriguez Borski Jackson (IL) Ross Boucher Jackson-Lee (TX) Roybal-Allard Brady (PA) Jefferson Ryan (WI) Brown (FL) Jenkins Sabo Brown (OH) Johnson, E. B. Sanchez Buyer Jones (OH) Sanders Capps Kanjorski Sandlin Capuano Kennedy (RI) Sawyer Cardin Kilpatrick Schakowsky Carson (IN) Kleczka Schiff Clay Kolbe Scott Clayton Kucinich Sherman Clement LaFalce Skeen Clyburn Lampson Skelton Condit Larsen (WA) Slaughter Coyne Larson (CT) Smith (MI) Crowley Leach Smith (WA) Cummings Lee Snyder Davis (CA) Levin Solis Davis (IL) Lewis (GA) Stark DeFazio Lofgren Stupak DeGette Maloney (NY) Tanner Delahunt Markey Terry DeLauro Mascara Thompson (CA) Dicks Matsui Thompson (MS) Dingell McCollum Thornberry Doggett McDermott Tierney Dooley McGovern Turner Doyle McKinney Waters Dreier Meehan Watt (NC) Edwards Meek (FL) Waxman Ehlers Menendez Weiner Ehrlich Millender-McDonald Wexler Evans Miller, George Whitfield Farr Mink Wilson Fattah Moore Woolsey Filner Murtha Wu Flake Napolitano Wynn Ford Neal
--- NOT = VOTING 15=20 --- Conyers Moran (VA) Serrano Engel Nadler Towns McInnis Peterson (MN) Velazquez Meeks (NY) Peterson (PA) Visclosky Mollohan Rush Watson (CA)
