Asa Hutchinson Quotes

The Obama administration has been weak and inconsistent in enforcing immigration laws.

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.

Because the worst of all worlds is when you pretend like you have an immigration policy, you make coming into the United States without our permission illegal, and then you actually don't enforce it.

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

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

Immigration policy should be set and enforced federally.

Before ICE, we had Immigration and Naturalization Services, but it wasn't until about 1999 that we chose to criminalize immigration at all. And then, once ICE was established, we really kind of militarized that enforcement to a degree that was previously unseen in the United States.

'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.

President Trump is enforcing U.S. immigration law, and in doing so, protecting the well-being and in some cases the lives of U.S. citizens.

We have got to secure the border and enforce existing immigration laws.

Drafting local police into Trump's immigration crackdown undermines public safety and is a colossal waste of taxpayer dollars.

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.

Arizona really has been a trailblazer in discouraging illegal immigration.

It's time we stop illegal immigration in Kansas.

Immigration customs enforcement is a role that makes sense. We have to have something that is doing that.

We can control our borders, we just choose not too.

If we are to believe that our immigration laws simply have no value, as our current policies would have us believe, should we then simply throw them all out, the entire lot of immigration law? I hope not.

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.

We must fix our broken immigration system. That means stopping illegal immigration. And it means welcoming properly vetted legal immigrants, regardless of their race or religion. Just like we have for centuries.

The other thing I like, in fact, several months ago I introduced a bill to end the absurd catch and release policy where our government has been giving tickets, essentially, to people who enter illegally and then letting them go and show up of their own volition.

Amnesty is not the answer as it will only encourage more illegal immigrants to enter.

I'm in favor of immigration but we also need rules.

I see people detained for simple INS violations.

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.