Kris Kobach Quotes

The simple truth is that we’ve lost control of our own boarders.

We do not control our borders. We don’t know who is coming across and we don’t know what is coming across.

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

We have two borders--one with Mexico and the other with Canada, I've done a lot of looking, but I have never seen an illegal Canadian .... Canada has a sound, stable economy, and that's what you need to solve the border problem. That that's why a wall by itself will never work.

We have to get control of our borders.

Those who feel a little insecure about our border have some reason to feel that way.

Wake up, America. With a porous southern border, we have no idea who's in our country.

There's no way without real evidence I would ever send the National Guard to the border.

But the people of Arizona, the people of America, have been promised that our borders would be secured for years and years and years, with it not happening. And I don't believe the people of America, certainly not the people of Arizona, are ready to discuss anything other at this point in time other than securing our borders.

We must safely secure our border by investing in more law enforcement and technology, and receiving cooperation from the Mexican government.

We need a human presence at the border and a humane presence at the border.

The problem we are dealing with at the border is not a Democratic problem. It is not a Republican problem. It is an American problem.

Resolutions of the State Council of Ohio, Junior Order of United American Mechanics urging passage of laws to prevent the landing on our shores of the vicious, lawless, pauperized, and anarchistic elements of foreign countries.

No fence has ever been able to stop history, much less a border fence…. A 10 foot fence only takes an 11 foot ladder to scale it.

Immigration has always been a concept that inflames passions.

Immigrant rights are civil rights.

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.

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 simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States undetected, undocumented, unchecked, and circumventing the line of people who are waiting patiently, diligently, and lawfully to become immigrants in this country.

Everybody knows that from a national security standpoint we need to secure our southern border.

In 2019 folks were coming across the border and were sitting down, they were sitting down waiting for Border Patrol to come up because they knew they would be released within a matter of hours if not days into the interior of the U.S. and that was the goal.

For those of us living in Texas and other border states, the reality of an open and unsecured border is a part of everyday life.

Well, I do want to talk about the challenges at the border. New Mexico, if you will, has become an Ellis Island and we want to take that issue seriously and we're not going to shy away that it presents significant challenges.

We need to secure our southern border. Clearly, the southern border is now a nexus between immigration and national security. It's a sieve.

I was able to see what our border looks like and the fact it is under assault on a daily basis from people trying to bring illegal people and illegal drugs into our country.