Border Safety Quotes

A porous border is a danger to America's national security, the people who live near it, and to those who cross it.

The border is safe; it's secure. El Paso is the safest city in America. Let's own that. Let's be proud of that. And then, I think, good policy can follow from that, better outcomes included.

The fact of the matter is, is that we need our borders secured. Certainly, we realize that there's going to have to be some kind of immigration reform, but I don't believe any of that's going to move forward until our border is secured.

That migrant families might be menaced or threatened in any way, shape or form when they arrive at our border - often times after an unimaginably arduous journey - is completely unacceptable.

Mexico secures their border. Why shouldn't we be able to secure ours?

I mean, these are kids that are getting on rail cars, riding the top of rail cars all the way up through Mexico. I mean, the danger that they're put in, the sexual assaults that are occurring - I mean, all of this is a great consternation, I think, for any of us. But when they come here and then they're dumped on our cities and our counties and our state is expected to pick up the costs, there's a point in time where you say, 'Quit giving these individuals incentives to come up and then be resettled in the United States'. That's the real issue for me.

We do need to strengthen our security at the border.

Illegal immigration is going to stop. It's dangerous.

Part of the job for me and others from El Paso who live along the border is to dispel the myths about how supposedly dangerous the border is.

There are important questions about protecting and securing the border, but we don't need to build a wall.

I think we have to secure our borders and make sure that people coming in are coming here not to do us harm.

I think - I do think that we have to have a secure border. We need to make sure that people are, in fact, documented. But that doesn't mean that we threaten people's lives.

There is no way that anyone who - besides the folks that want to plain ignore facts - there's no way that anyone can say that by building that wall we are not going to accomplish a more secure border. It's just proven. We can do this.

I'm on record saying nothing about immigration until we secure the borders. The borders are not secure.

The border is way more porous than it should be, and I think we'd be open to discussing anything that enhances border security.

What we're doing is making sure that we have a safe and secure border region from San Diego all the way to Brownsville. And that means manpower, it means technology, it means infrastructure, it means interior enforcement. All, you know, kind of layered in appropriate ways, and making sure, like I said before, the border is safe and secure.

We need to make sure we have secure borders.

My goal is to ensure the Northern Border is safe, secure and allows for the free flow of travel and commerce.

I reject the federal contention that there exists an overwhelming national security crisis at the southern border, along which are some of the safest communities in the country.

I believe we must study which changes must be made now that the immigration system has changed, because we are seeing, I believe, that at this time we are inviting people to come to the U.S. on very dangerous trips.