A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation. — Ronald Reagan
The worst elements in Mexico are being pushed into the United States by the Mexican government. The Border Patrol knows this. Likewise, tremendous infectious disease is pouring across the border. — Donald Trump
We will have a border that is open for business, open for tourism, open for legitimate travelers; but that is closed to terrorists and drug pushers and smugglers and others who seek to break the law. — Paul Cellucci
As the American public continues to focus more intensely on illegal immigration and securing the nation's borders, the number of members of the House Immigration Reform Caucus continues to grow. — Virgil Goode
Enforcement is the long overdue step to protect our Nation from external threats in a time of war. And then once we do that, we can effectively discuss a guest worker program. — J. D. Hayworth
I fear the carnival of crime is beginning on our border. — Edward Blake
I respect a system that says we're going to put every bit of pressure on anybody we have to put it on to get to the drug dealer who is bringing his poison into the country. — Bill McCollum
Well, I think we need to have attrition by enforcement. We need to secure our borders. We need to enforce our laws. — Allen West
The most dangerous area where our laws are not being faithfully executed are the laws designed to protect Americans against the millions of aliens who enter our country illegally every year. — Phyllis Schlafly
Texas is right. Biden’s failure to secure the border leaves states no choice but to take matters into their own hands. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
In fact, allowing immigrants to have licenses actually improves homeland security by allowing our government to track who is in our borders. — Joe Baca
For our immigration policy to make sense, it is necessary to make distinctions between those who obey the law, and those who violate it. — Barbara Jordan
If we do not get control of our borders, by 2050 Americans of European descent will be a minority in the nation their ancestors created and built. — Pat Buchanan
The four BIAs in the area support it. Operational benefits include accessibility and a place for police officers to come and go when they're working. Everyone's clamoring for more police presence. — Julian Fantino
Donald Trump is saying we're going to end the lawlessness at the border and we're going to push Mexico to do better. So there's been a reaction by the activist community to attack him. — Jeff Sessions
Border Control Quotes
The China-India border is really the Tibetan-Indian border — and that is precisely why China has always wanted to control it. — Tim Marshall
In today's world, it is shortsighted to think that infectious diseases cannot cross borders. By allowing developing countries access to generic drugs, we not only help improve health in those nations, we also help ourselves control these debilitating and often deadly diseases. — Ron Wyden
The introduction of Bitcoin, as a currency native to the Internet superseding national borders and outside the realm of governmental control, offers an intriguing possibility for the emergence of a new international monetary system, to be analyzed in Chapter 9. — Saifedean Ammous
Life is wide, limitless. There is no border, no frontier.
The introduction of Bitcoin, as a currency native to the Internet superseding national borders and outside the realm of governmental control, offers an intriguing possibility for the emergence of a new international monetary system. — Saifedean Ammous
And after Brexit, we will be free to determine our economic future, with control over our money, laws and borders. — Liz Truss
But the simple truth is that we've lost control of our own borders, and no nation can do that and survive. — Ronald Reagan
Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence.
If you don't control the borders, it doesn't matter what immigration laws you have. — Thomas Sowell
It's not possible in a free country to completely control the border without us losing our freedoms and liberties. — Jeb Bush
Kuwait needs tougher guarding. Guarding that's not limited to weapons, soldiers and border control, but extends to every Kuwaiti soul with awareness, vigilance and anticipation — Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah
We can control our borders, we just choose not too. — Tom Tancredo
Mexican Border Quotes
I will build a great, great wall on our southern border. And I will have Mexico pay for that wall. — Donald Trump
Mexico’s population in the early 1800s was 6.2 million to the U.S.’ 9.6 million and the Mexicans were next door so quietly Washington DC began encouraging Americans, and new arrivals, to begin to settle on both sides of the U.S.-Mexican border. — Tim Marshall
The border between the dead and the living, if you're Mexican, doesn't exist. The dead are part of your life. — Sandra Cisneros
I spent two months in a jail once. In a Mexican border town. — Dean Ambrose
The U.S.-Mexican border es un herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. And before a scab forms it hemorrhages again, the lifeblood of two worlds merging to form a third country - a border culture. — Gloria E. Anzaldúa
You know how Mexican restaurants always have "border" in the name: Border Grill, Border Cafe. You wouldn't do that to black people: Kunta's Kitchen or Shackles. They don't do it to white people. You don't see the Honkey Grill, the Cracker Barrel... oh, nevermind. — George Lopez
And, of course, millions of us cross the border to work in US homes and gardens and factories and carpentry shops and restaurants, and if you go to a restaurant pretty much anywhere in the United States, the chances are that the dishes will be washed by a Mexican. — Alma Guillermoprieto
If we're so cruel to minorities, why do they keep coming here? Why aren't they sneaking across the Mexican border to make their way to the Taliban? — Ann Coulter
If they [mexicans] cross the border, I think, and they are violating the law, then that word criminal does connect with that violation, so if they're violating the law, I guess you can call them criminals. We call everybody else criminals that violate the law. — Joe Arpaio
This is not the first time that Mexican authorities have handed over an Arab from a country with known Al Qaeda connections to a local sheriff across the border. FBI picks them up and disappears — John Culberson
At some point we will shut down the border, things will have gotten that bad. When we do that, we will immediately be at war with the drug cartels because we cut off their income. We are going to have to fight inside the United States as well as on our border and that's going to demand the United States Army because our Border Patrol is not nearly as well-equipped. Border Patrol is outgunned, outperformed in every sense, every category of military power by the cartels. — Douglas Macgregor
Thank God we're going to try to continue and effectively defend our frontiers with the Border Patrol, with the Customs Department, with the Coast Guard, with the Armed Forces. — Barry McCaffrey
On my recent trip to the Mexico border, Border Patrol agents in California told me they have arrested the same coyotes 20 times, but they are not prosecuted. — Ric Keller
Quite simply, federal laws already on the books aimed at stopping the flow of illegal immigration must be enforced. Furthermore, states must be given the resources necessary to confront the problem, which includes strengthening the border patrol. — Allen West
So now is an opportunity for us to stand up and have a good, strong immigration policy to make sure that E- Verify becomes mandatory and we have got to train and properly equip our Border Patrol. — Allen West
Our border patrol does a great job under these very dangerous conditions. They use very sophisticated equipment, including gamma rays, to detect drugs and illegal immigrants as they enter the U.S. — Timothy Murphy
Finally, we need more Border Patrol agents. Although Congress has already tripled the number of Border Patrol agents since the late 1980s, more are still needed. — Ric Keller
The sheriffs are completely outnumbered and outgunned. And we don't have enough border patrol agents — John Culberson
He [Donald Trump]wants to build the wall. It would be silly to say we`re going to - we`re going to create an army and we`re going to have Mexico pay for our border patrol, our border police. Clearly, that`s not going to happen. — John Yarmuth
We wouldn't turn over our customs service or our border patrol to a foreign government. We shouldn't turn over the ports of the United States, either. — Robert Menendez
These are busy times for the Border Patrol, the customs agents, immigration folks; but if we are going to send these agencies to fight a war on drugs, to fight a war against illegal behavior, we have to send them the proper tools. — Bob Filner
Migrants come up and no longer seek to evade the Border Patrol, but are actually left at the border by their smugglers. And they seek out Border Patrol agents or Customs and Border Protection officials to surrender to them and request political asylum. That's the way in which they get entry into a system that will eventually release them into the country. — Alan Bersin
That way when we pick people up there they don't really have an excuse. They weren't out there picking mushrooms. They were illegally in the United States. It will simplify the adjudication and will expedite the voluntary return, and it will allow our border patrol officers to patrol both sides of that wall. And we can put surveillance devices on top of the wall, vibration detectors and other devices. — Steve King
I want to build the wall. We need the wall. And the Border Patrol, ICE, they all want the wall. We stop the drugs. We shore up the border. — Donald Trump
I was just endorsed by ICE. They've never endorsed anybody before on immigration. I was just endorsed by ICE. I was just recently endorsed - 16,500 Border Patrol agents. — Donald Trump
Just ask the Border Patrol about Hillary Clinton. You won't like what you're hearing. — Donald Trump
And ICE and Border Patrol officers will be allowed to do their jobs the way their jobs are supposed to be done. — Donald Trump
We will expand the number of border patrol stations significantly. — Donald Trump
As the witness testified before my Subcommittee on Immigration, that barriers magnify the ability of every Border Patrol agent to be more effective. And so if you make up your mind, you can build substantial mileage barriers. It will increase the ability of our officers to perform, and the most important thing is, it sends a message to the world, the border is closed. — Jeff Sessions
Whether you're talking about political borders or aesthetic divisions (and clearly, the political ones have much more tragic consequences), it seems like once they are created, we want to patrol them, enforce them. — Matthea Harvey
Because what a temporary worker program would do is help relieve pressure on the border. It will allow our law enforcement officials and Border Patrol agents to focus on those who are coming here for the wrong reasons, the criminals and the drug dealers and the terrorists. — Scott McClellan
If I'm elected president, we will secure the border. We will triple the border patrol. We will build a wall that works and I'll get Donald Trump to pay for it. — Ted Cruz
I learned this one growing up in Texas and, subsequently, living in Los Angeles: always use the 'usted' form when speaking to a Spanish official. Mexican border patrol cops don't like it when you call them 'amigo,' give them a hardy pat on the back, slip a $20 in their pocket. No bueno, it doesn't fly. By the way, those of you not laughing at that obviously took French in high school, and that was a gay choice. — Iliza Shlesinger
Justin Bieber's tour bus was stopped by Canadian border patrol agents. And they found marijuana. The agents said Bieber was a disgrace to Canada and should never come back. Then they found the marijuana. — Craig Ferguson
It [Border fence] hasn't worked. What has worked is more border patrols... What has worked is some technology. — Bill Richardson
We need military border patrols to battle drugs & terrorism. — Jerry Weller
Once you have opened up prisoner interrogation, wiretapping, border patrol, jailing and the services of the military, when this has been turned into a for-profit business in this endless war, then we're in deep trouble. — John Cusack
The Commission endorses prevention as the principal strategy to use in deterring illegal entries. We applaud the efforts of innovative Border Patrol leaders such as Silvestre Reyes with Operation Hold the Line in El Paso. Operation Hold the Line demonstrated that a strategic use of personnel and technology can combine at our land border, as it has for many years at our airports, to reduce unauthorized crossings. — Barbara Jordan
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