We are writing as Arizona’s Republican delegation to Congress to call on our constituents and all Arizona voters to vote for Blake Masters for U.S. Senate. With the situation along our southern border continuing to deteriorate, we need someone in the U.S. Senate who will work with us to secure the border and the safety of all Arizonans.
Like you, we are disappointed and frustrated with the fact that President Joe Biden’s administration and Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) have done nothing to secure our border, instead doing everything they can to incentivize more immigrants to come here illegally.
Kelly shares just as much blame for this failure as Biden. Instead of using his leverage as the 50th vote in the Senate to secure the border, Kelly has repeatedly voted for Biden’s open borders policies. He voted against hiring more border agents. He voted against extending Title 42. He voted against deporting criminal aliens with felony convictions, and he even voted to send stimulus funds to illegal immigrants.
Unless we replace Kelly with someone who cares about securing the border, the problem will get much worse. Arizonans can’t afford the status quo. Too much is at stake. We need a senator who is committed to protecting this country’s national security and shutting down the flow of illegal immigrants and drugs across the border.
We are in the midst of a humanitarian and national security crisis unlike anything we have ever experienced before. Since the Democrats took power 21 months ago, our southern border has dramatically changed from one that was mostly secure to one that is now wide open.
Dangerous cartels are smuggling record-breaking numbers of illegal immigrants from more than 160 different countries into the United States. This year alone, more than 2 million illegal immigrants have entered the country.
Those same cartels are also smuggling record amounts of drugs into our communities and targeting our children. Fentanyl, which is coming over the border in record amounts, is now the No. 1 killer of Americans aged 18-45.
Unlike Biden and most Democrats, we have been to our southern border multiple times. We have talked to our Customs and Border Protection officers. We have seen the wide openings in the border wall. We have heard how smugglers aren’t being prosecuted. We have been told by border sheriffs how women and girls are being trafficked and sold into sex slavery. We have read the reports about suspected terrorists crossing our border and how immigration officials very often lose track of who is entering our country and where they’ve gone.
When we saw Mark Kelly make the preposterous claim in a debate that he was doing everything he could to secure the border, coupled with TV ads in which he claims he wants a secure border, we felt we had to speak out.
We represent Arizona in Congress. We know what’s happening on Capitol Hill and how people vote.
We also know that Kelly has made no attempt to reach out to us so that we can work together to secure the border. Perhaps most troubling, we know that Kelly has repeatedly opposed commonsense legislative efforts to secure the border.
If you want a border that is secure and a nation that is safe, it is time for a change in the Senate. We ask you to join us in voting for Blake Masters for Senate so that we have an Arizona senator who will put the safety of Arizonans and the security of this country first.
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Andy Biggs, Paul Gosar, David Schweikert, and Debbie Lesko are U.S. representatives for Arizona.
