Secure our Border
Secure the border.
Occurrences
work with President Trump to secure our southern border
Evidence
The campaign issues page lists 'Secure our Border' among Julie Fedorchak’s core campaign priorities.
The House passed H.R. 29, the Laken Riley Act, by a 264-159 vote on January 7, 2025; the official roll call page records Julie Fedorchak as a member of the House at that time and shows the bill passed.
Public Law 119-1 shows the Laken Riley Act was enacted on January 29, 2025, as an immigration-enforcement law requiring DHS custody in specified cases.
The office said Fedorchak 'visited the U.S.-Mexico border' and 'voted in favor of the Laken Riley Act (now law), the HALT Fentanyl Act, the Agent Raul Gonzalez Officer Safety Act, and the Preventing Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act,' and that she was 'a deciding vote' on a House budget resolution that lays the foundation for priorities including 'securing the border.'
Fedorchak said she is 'committed to working with the Trump administration and my colleagues in Congress' to make sure border agents have the tools and resources they need to keep the country safe, after touring the U.S.-Mexico border and meeting CBP and ICE officials.
The office reported Fedorchak voted for H.R. 3486, the Stop Illegal Entry Act, which 'will impose tougher penalties on migrants who illegally enter or reenter the United States.'
Congresswoman Julie Fedorchak (R-ND) this week voted in support of four pieces of legislation aimed at strengthening public safety, supporting law enforcement officers, and restoring law and order in communities across the country. The House passed the bills this week in honor of National Police Week.
Fedorchak voted to advance the Pay Our Homeland Defenders Act, legislation to restore funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and pay the men and women protecting our country without delay. The legislation restores funding for key DHS components, including U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Border Patrol, TSA, the Coast Guard, the Secret Service, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
Assessments
Fedorchak made the campaign promise in a federal House race and, during the same congressional term, took several border-security-related actions: voting for the Laken Riley Act that became law, supporting bills increasing penalties for illegal entry, backing DHS/CBP/Border Patrol funding, visiting the southern border, and publicly pressing for more resources for border agents. Those actions materially advance the issue, but the broad promise to 'secure the border' is not shown as fully achieved by the evidence, and one member of Congress cannot be credited with the entire border outcome based on these steps alone.
Fedorchak clearly promised to secure the border and took same-term actions related to that promise, including voting for immigration-enforcement and border-security bills, supporting the Laken Riley Act that became law, visiting the southern border, and publicly pushing for more resources for border agents. However, the promised outcome was broad and substantive: securing the border. The evidence shows serious legislative and oversight effort, but not that the border was actually secured or that the full promised outcome was delivered. Under the instruction, serious attempts without delivery should be rated never with effort_badge=true.