Kirstjen Nielsen Quotes

Great countries need to secure their border for national security purposes, for economic purposes and for rule of law purposes.

A country isn't sovereign if we can't control who comes in and who's allowed to come in.

Clearly, border security has been the top domestic issue of the year, and rightly so. Securing our borders is an essential aspect of our national security.

These are our borders, and we have to secure our borders.

I think it's a fundamental responsibility of the federal government to enforce our nation's borders.

There is no question that we must do more to secure our borders - but how we go about securing them is also important.

No issue is more important to this Congress than securing our borders and protecting our homeland, and I guarantee it is very important to our constituents.

Border security is a safety issue.

Border security and homeland security are one and the same.

Mexico secures their border. Why shouldn't we be able to secure ours?

A key part of your sovereignty is the ability to control the influx and outflow of your people and is the ability to secure your border.

The wall is not a bilateral issue. It's not something that we discuss with the American government. Every country has a sovereign right to protect its borders the best way that they see fit.

People think of border security in very different ways, but to me, it's very simple: border security is national security.

As far as a wall is concerned, the experts actually say that in some places a wall is necessary, in other places a double wall is necessary, and in other places that a wall wouldn't help. So I'm for whatever it takes to secure our border with Mexico. We've got to do it. I'm for then enforcing our laws.

The U.S. is a sovereign nation, and if the U.S. decides to build a wall on the southern border, it's their sovereign decision. We may like it or not.

I'm for whatever it takes to secure our border with Mexico.

How can we protect homeland security unless the government stops the invasion of illegal aliens?

I'm on record saying nothing about immigration until we secure the borders. The borders are not secure.

If people can just pour into the country illegally, you don't have a country.

It's the federal government's job to secure the border.

We also need to strengthen the security of our borders and ports and strictly control immigration.

We need to know who's in the United States. We need to know everyone who's in the United States that comes in here from a foreign country. And we have to separate the ones who are dangerous from the ones who aren't. To accomplish that, we need a fence. We need a technological fence. We need a border patrol.

We will decide who comes to our country.

Homeland security is a joke if we don’t have border security.

The people that work the border will tell you that physical barriers, backed up by men and women, is what we need to secure the southwest border.