Dave Brat Quotes

If you support amnesty, you should vote for the Democrats.

Rubio is clearly an open-borders Republican. He is the Chamber of Commerce candidate, the 'more is better' candidate, and the amnesty candidate.

Our immigration system is not broken. We don't need, and Congress shouldn't enact, amnesty.

Republicans want to be tough and say, 'Illegals, you're gone.' But the answer is a lot more complex than that.

I have never supported amnesty, and I led the fight against Chuck Schumer's gang of eight amnesty legislation in the Senate.

When I ran in Texas, I told the people of Texas, 'if you elect me, I will lead the fight against amnesty.'

It's great that Trump has engendered a heated debate over illegal immigration and our open borders.

I am actually an open borders kind of guy.

In terms of immigration, we're seeing a lot of Democrats and Republicans use the really elastic term, 'Comprehensive Immigration Reform,' and they don't totally understand what that means. For us in El Paso, it's part of a larger discussion about the nature of the border.

I respect those who openly advocate for unlimited immigration to the United States. Open borders is an intellectually coherent, defensible position.

It's clear that we need comprehensive immigration reform.

There should not be a question of legal or illegal immigration. People came and immigrated to this country from the time of the Indians. No one's illegal. They should just be able to come.

Immigration reform is a must, an amnesty. So that's my position. I've been pushing that one since before it was popular.

Immigration reform almost happened under President George W. Bush. Twice. And it was comprehensive.

Every time anybody in Washington talks about legal status, amnesty, anything of that nature, it becomes a magnet that lures people in quickly into the United States.

After granting amnesty to illegals 20 years ago, we have gone from 3 million illegals to 11 million illegals. Our government has been fooled once by this amnesty argument, let us not be fooled again.

The Democratic Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of voters.

If you want a president to stop amnesty, to secure the borders and keep us safe, then support a candidate who has led the fight to stop amnesty to secure the borders and to keep us safe.

Immigration reform is something that the Democrats have promised and the Republicans need.

The key here is to be fair to the 11 million [illegal immigrants], starting with the [2 million younger illegals] ‘Dreamers'....I’ve stopped letting 30 percent of the people who are mad about immigration determine how I behave. To those who feel like you should deport [younger illegals], boy, I couldn’t disagree with you more…. To the people who object to this, I don’t want you to vote for me because I cannot serve you well.

Conservatives have always wanted border security before we had immigration reform.

If we continue to dump more Mexican immigrants on the country, we'll get to the point that we'll never have another Republican president.

When I first arrived in the U.S. House of Representatives, I naively believed that it was primarily the Democrats who were committed to open borders. But I quickly learned the entire Republican establishment also supported a policy of immigration non-enforcement.

I believe that Senate Bill 1070 lit America on fire. I think we've all realized exactly what the situation is. And the people of Arizona have lived with these porous borders and illegal immigration into our state and that people throughout America realize that. Everybody understands the problem except the president of the United States.

Paul Ryan was grown in a petri dish in D.C. He is absolutely an open borders guy, through and through.