Say Anything Blog

Today, the House voted on the Secure Borders Act of 2006.

The House voted for the second time in a year to erect a fence along a third of the U.S.-Mexican border, part of a Republican effort to keep illegal immigration an issue before voters. A new 700 miles of double-layered fencing won approval on a 283-138 vote, a bigger margin than last December when the House passed it as part of a broader bill that also would have made being an illegal immigrant a felony. The nearly 2,000-mile border now has about 75 miles of fencing. Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., said the separate fence bill was needed to show Americans "we can take meaningful action to secure the border."

North Dakota Representative Earl Pomeroy voted against securing our border. In fact, he obviously does not care enough about immigration to even put it on his reelection campaign web site. We know that Earl Pomeroy does not want to secure our border and his opponent, Matt Mechtel (R) does. Matt has taken a real hardline stance against illegal immigration. Mechtel should be able to make a campaign issue out of this. Expect to hear from the Mechtel campaign about this vote real soon.