Bill Clinton Quotes

Illegal is not a race, it is a crime.

These illegal aliens are criminals and we need to treat them as such. I'm not in favor of giving amnesty to anybody who has broken the law. I applaud what our Georgia legislature is doing in trying to crack down on this situation.

In the state of Alabama we have a significant number of illegal aliens that are leaving our state as occurred in Arizona after they got tough on illegal aliens.

I would have liked to see where we would have the authority to arrest illegal aliens just by being here illegally and book them into our jails, but that's not going to happen.

One way to sensitize Washington to the illegal alien problem is to make them pay for it.

The simple answer to the illegal alien problem is to secure our boarders and enforce the law.

The system is broken …. We must secure our borders. But we have to have a way of matching willing workers with willing employers and have a way for people to do the jobs that Americans don’t seem to want to do…. But I don’t believe that we are going to take people who have been here for 40 or 50 years and ship them back where they came from…. As long as there is a demand for workers, workers will come.

The Federal Government does not control our borders as the law requires …. I haven’t received a response saying that the check is in the mail….When people illegally cross our borders that the Federal Government is supposed to control, the Federal Government should pick up the tab.

Deportation is crucial. Credibility in immigration policy can be summed up in one sentence: Those who should get in, get in; those who should be kept out, are kept out; and those who should not be here will be required to leave. The top priorities for detention and removal, of course, are criminal aliens. But for the system to be credible, people actually have to be deported at the end of the process

Americans are rightly disturbed by the large numbers of illegal immigrants entering this country. The jobs they hold might otherwise be held by our citizens or legal immigrants, and the public services they use impose burdens on our taxpayers. That's why our administration has moved aggressively to secure our borders by hiring a record number of new border guards, by deporting twice as many criminal aliens as ever before, by cracking down on illegal aliens who try to take American jobs, and by barring welfare benefits to illegal aliens.

We must make clear that if you come here illegally, you will be sent back home.

I think we need to go to a system... where we have tough enforcement. Where if you're here illegally, you're going to be deported.

'Self-deport?' What the heck does that mean?

A certain amount of people had been actually removed from this country who should not have been.

No one disagrees that undocumented criminals should be deported.

Illegal aliens have broken our laws, and they shouldn't be rewarded with amnesty and immediate legalization.

We have to do immigration reform while the pro-deportation crew is still reeling.

If you come across illegal aliens committing crimes, other crimes, you deport them.

We will break the cycle of amnesty and illegal immigration. There will be no amnesty.

Round up and deport two million aliens who committed crimes.

We will hear more details on [Donald] Trump's plans on addressing illegal immigration in the speech tonight, including what Trump plans to do about those 11 million illegal immigrants already in the U.S.

...for the system to be credible, people actually have to be deported at the end of the process.

[Donald] Trump has been saying that on, day one, the violent undocumented immigrants will be - will leave the country. But what about the rest? What happens to the other 11 or so million, however many there are?

Arizona has become a national leader in the restoration of the Rule of Law, with over 100,000 illegal aliens having left the state since 2007.

Foreign nationals entering the United States illegally who are taken into custody by the Border Protection Corps or by State or local law enforcement authorities must be promptly delivered to a federal law enforcement authority.