This issue of border security is not about, about ethnicity. I sit there on occasion with 10 or 12 sheriffs from my district, many of which are Democrats with last names like Reyes, with last names like Herrera and Lucio. And they are crying out for border security as well. So again, this is not an issue about being anti-Mexican.

The court also ordered an all-party primary on Election Day with a December runoff if no candidate wins 50 percent of the vote. The 23rd had been a Democratic district since its creation in 1967 but Bonilla charged four-term incumbent Albert G. His former wife Deborah Knapp (born December 1 1954) continues as an anchor at the station.

His term expired January 3 2007 when the 110th Congress officially began. Henry Bonilla (born January 2 1954) is a former congressman who represented Texas's 23rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives.