Chuck Todd Quotes

Certainly in a world where terrorism is a daily reality in the news, it's easy for people to be afraid. But the fact is that we laid out very clearly - and Canadians get - that it's actually not a choice between either immigration or security: that of course they go together.

You can’t have open borders and win the war against terrorism at the same time.

We do not control our borders. We don’t know who is coming across and we don’t know what is coming across.

The president needs to make certain an absolutely thorough vetting system is in place that will not allow terrorists from Syria or any other part of the world into our country.

President Trump is right to make sure we are doing everything possible to know exactly who is entering America.

I think that we have to be very careful about who comes here from the Middle East.

We have terrorists coming into the country both through our Northern and Southern borders.

We will have a border that is open for business, open for tourism, open for legitimate travelers; but that is closed to terrorists and drug pushers and smugglers and others who seek to break the law.

Going forward, as we work to strengthen our border in the interests of homeland security, we must also recognize the economic importance of immigration reform.

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

New York is not going to be a foreign place to me. They didn't revoke my visa.

“Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States"

Refugees are not terrorists. They are the victims of terrorists .... In my experience people with terrorist intent do not choose the reugee route to enter a country. There is too much scruiteny and takes too long. They use ofher ways.

The American people are a welcoming and generous people. But those who enter our country illegally, and those who employ them, disrespect the rule of law. And because we live in an age where terrorists are challenging our borders, we simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States undetected, undocumented, and unchecked. Americans are right to demand better border security and better enforcement of the immigration laws.

Behind mass immigration, there is terrorism.

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

The reality is that Trump's focus on immigrants is to misconceive of the terrorist problem that exists in the United States.

If terrorists are already on our southern border, a national-security failure has already occurred.

I think people all across the country want us to secure the border and make sure that terrorists are not coming into our country.

We have to get away from thinking that everyone coming to the United States is a threat.

Feeling unsafe in your own home? Look no further than those terrorists and criminals and illegal immigrants who have been given free reign and on whom Trump says we need to 'get tough.'

We don't want terrorists in Wyoming or anywhere else in this country. And we have got to make sure the federal government is doing its job by not allowing these folks into our states.

If I was prime minister for a day the first thing I would do would be to close the border. Then we could work out how many people we've got here. Then you get people out who have committed crimes and you look at others who shouldn't be here. Nobody knows how many people we've got here.

I'm against illegal migrants. Too many of them are dangerous for Italy and Europe.

I support security at the borders. I think security is enormously important in the post-September 11th period. I think we have to know who's coming into this country. We have to be able to identify them; we have to be able to figure out who they are.