Susana Martinez Quotes

The federal government is responsible for addressing how to address the status of the estimated 9 to 15 million people who are in the country illegally, but local and state law enforcement can be helpful partners in that regard.

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.

I do not support amnesty. I do not support driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants.

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

I hope that President-elect Trump will drop his unrealistic campaign pledge to deport millions of immigrants who've made their lives in this country and contribute to our country.

No one disagrees that undocumented criminals should be deported.

These immigrants have come to our country and blatantly disregarded our laws. We cannot, we should not, reward that. No amnesty. No ability to vote. Get those borders secure, and then deal with that situation.

What person here illegally (and in his right mind), will go to the government, announce being here illegally (e.g. plead guilty), provide all sorts of information as to where that person lives etc. to get a work permit only to be a target for deportation in two years?

The criminal justice system should have the authority to determine the immigration status of all criminals, regardless of race or ethnicity, and report illegal immigrants who commit crimes to federal authorities.

I will continue to enforce all the laws, including illegal immigration. Nothing changes.

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.

I am, you know, adamantly against illegal immigrants.

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

Obama has a strong record on immigration enforcement, outdoing both Republican and Democratic predecessors. He has deported over 1 million immigrants, focusing on those with criminal records. As documented by many nonpartisan sources, by 2011, Obama had reduced illegal immigration crossings to net zero.

Punishing individual immigrants who are deeply embedded in American communities is not the mandate Trump was given when he was elected.

I would give illegal immigrants already here a three-month grace period to apply for a temporary worker's visa. If they failed to apply within that time frame, they would be considered fugitives, and they would be found and deported.

California will not become a cog in the Trump deportation machine.

Once you secure that border, then we can start doing an analysis of what we are going to do with all of the folks that got here illegally.

The hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens who have unlawfully crossed our border are posing a significant threat to the government's ability to effectively enforce our nation's immigration laws.

I have been fighting - and winning - against Obama-era experiments with illegal amnesty.

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

It is erroneous and profoundly irresponsible to suggest that up to three million undocumented immigrants living in America are dangerous criminals.

If you're an illegal alien in Prince William County, I'd get out.

It is not 'dehumanizing' to call someone an illegal immigrant if he/she resides in the host country illegally.

For those who are here illegally and not following the rules, we need to send them home.