Border Management Quotes

A country without a border is like a person in a house without a front door. Anybody can enter and you cannot ask anybody to leave.

If you don't control the borders, it doesn't matter what immigration laws you have.

A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.

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

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.

We still have a long way to go before we can declare America safe, and that means doing a better job along our borders, as well.

The message that "we can't take in everybody" is imperative. At the same time, the decision as to who has a right to asylum needs to be made in Brussels.

[Refugees] cannot be stopped, but they can and must be managed better, more humanely, protecting migrants' human rights whilst accepting states' rights to control their borders.

We cannot have this porous border, where people come in and out; we don't know who they are.

I think people have good ideas on this. Clearly, we need to secure the border. Coming here legally needs to be a lot easier than coming here illegally.

It's not possible in a free country to completely control the border without us losing our freedoms and liberties.

Some months before I declared, I asked for a meeting and crossed the border to meet with the president of Mexico. I did not go with a plan. I went, as I said in my announcement address, to ask him his ideas - how we could make the border something other than a locale for a nine-foot fence.

I'm not an expert on the ways of Washington [but] it makes no sense to me that we're not funding control of our border.

Securing the border is priority number one.

I supported Arizona's immigration law by joining in that lawsuit to defend it. Every day I have Texans on that border that are doing their job.

Illegal immigration can never be completely stopped, no matter how high the wall or how many patrol agents you have watching it.

Each sector of the border faces unique geographical, cultural and technological challenges that would be best addressed with a flexible, sector-by-sector approach that empowers the Border Patrol agents on the ground with the resources they need. What you need in San Diego is very different from what you need in Eagle Pass, Tex.

I don't know what 'operational control' of the border means, but I do understand the English language. And as I understand that phrase, that's not true. We do not have operational control.

Brexit must mean control of the number of people who come to Britain from Europe, and that is what I will deliver.

The men and women at our borders, given adequate resources, are doing an excellent job of keeping us safe.

you cannot maintain popular support for immigration policy, multiculturalism, unless you can control your borders.

The northern border is a different problem set than our southern border. We're not going to put a fence between America and Canada, across Glacier Park. I grew up there. We can use some technological controls. We work with the Canadians more, and there's a lot of property we share, along with tribal lands.

Our borders are much too porous...We want to keep them open, but we also have to be much more careful. ...Right now, if you get on an airplane [to the U.S.] and claim asylum...when you arrive at Kennedy Airport in New York, they will say to you, 'OK, we'll give you a hearing on whether you deserve asylum. Show up in a year.' And two-thirds of the people never show up.

What we need is a 'Smart Wall' to solve our 21st century border problems. A Smart Wall would use sensor, radar and surveillance technologies to detect and track incursions across our border so we can deploy efficiently our most important resource, the men and women of Border Patrol, to perform the most difficult task - interdiction.

Schengen cannot survive without the most dramatic reform, and the external borders of Europe must be rapidly strengthened.