Jan Brewer Quotes

I have a responsibility as an elected governor to govern and when I say govern, that means to make sure that our citizens are safe and we need the federal government to step up and do their job. They need to secure our borders.

We are a nation of borders and - I mean, that is one of the main things that the federal government is in charge with, and that is protecting the citizens of the United States and our whole nation.

Clearly, border security has been the top domestic issue of the year, and rightly so. Securing our borders is an essential aspect of our national security.

If the federal government won't secure the border, the State of Arizona will step in to complement federal efforts in a constitutional manner and protect the security of its citizens.

We have a crisis with a need to secure the border.

There is nothing unbiblical about building a wall and protecting citizens.

When you look at all of the problems that are streaming and flowing over that border, the first thing we have to do is secure it. Job number one.

The mission of Border Patrol agents to protect the United States from harm is being impeded by a crisis Congress has the ability to fix, but as usual, chooses not to.

People think of border security in very different ways, but to me, it's very simple: border security is national security.

The most important obligation our government has is to protect American citizens, and for decades career politicians like Joe Donnelly in Washington have neglected their duty by failing to stop illegal immigration and the flow of drugs pouring across our weak border.

If we cared about safer streets, we'd build the wall and secure the border.

We need to secure our southern border. Clearly, the southern border is now a nexus between immigration and national security. It's a sieve.

We're going to do whatever is necessary to build the border wall, to stop this ongoing crisis of illegal immigration.

How can we protect homeland security unless the government stops the invasion of illegal aliens?

But again, to dealing with border security, is an issue that - it's like having a fire in the back of your house that you need to put out first before you talk about who, who you're going to let in the front door.

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

It's the federal government's job to secure the border.

If this Nation really wants to create an effective border security policy, we need to have a debate that includes a discussion about actual solutions to our problems, which means taking all of the political grandstanding and baiting out of the equation.

I think it's a fundamental responsibility of the federal government to enforce our nation's borders.

Every town has become a border town and every State has become a border State.

Finally, we need more Border Patrol agents. Although Congress has already tripled the number of Border Patrol agents since the late 1980s, more are still needed.

We need to know who's in the United States. We need to know everyone who's in the United States that comes in here from a foreign country. And we have to separate the ones who are dangerous from the ones who aren't. To accomplish that, we need a fence. We need a technological fence. We need a border patrol.

I'm in favor of building the fence, and doing everything technologically to protect our borders. But the other way to secure the border, and one of the things we must do, is put in place good guest-worker programs that employers can actually use.

There is no question that we must do more to secure our borders - but how we go about securing them is also important.

We all learned in kindergarten that the beginning is a very good place to start. As we have this debate on illegal immigration and illegal entry into this country, let's begin at the very beginning by sealing the borders to this great Nation.