Tom Fitton Quotes

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.

Our borders have got to be secured. You know, when President Reagan, who was one of my idols, granted amnesty to about three million illegal immigrants, it was based on the fact that the borders would be secured. That didn't happen. It didn't happen during the Bush administration.

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

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

Everybody will say that they're not opposed to immigration; they're opposed to illegal immigration. That's what I'm saying.

Amnesty is not the answer as it will only encourage more illegal immigrants to enter.

I think in the U.S., the border fence is no longer an immigration issue primarily; it's a security issue.

What the president is doing is flooding the job market with illegal immigrants that he is giving temporary work permits to. Not fair.

We will never stop illegal immigration until this country has a comprehensive, realistic immigration policy.

And the bottom line is, is that they are illegal aliens entering our country. And we simply cannot sustain that kind of activity. Bottom line is it's a backdoor to amnesty and I don't believe the American people support that.

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

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.

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

Illegal immigration undermines legal immigration.

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.

Since the '86 amnesty, the number of illegal immigrants has quadrupled. That should teach Congress a very important lesson: Amnesty 'bends' the rule of law. And bending the rule of law to reach a 'comprehensive' deal winds up provoking wholesale breaking of the law.

Democrats in sanctuary states support amnesty for illegal aliens, just so long as those illegal aliens don't wind up in sanctuary states.

The Democrats are fighting for illegal aliens. Donald Trump is fighting for American citizens.

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

We can control our borders, we just choose not too.

Well, my constituents are happy that the Republican Party has finally gotten off its duff, seeing that we do control the House and the Senate and the presidency, and taken up the issue of illegal immigration.

This issue of border security is not about, about ethnicity. I sit there on occasion with 10 or 12 sheriffs from my district, many of which are Democrats with last names like Reyes, with last names like Herrera and Lucio. And they are crying out for border security as well. So again, this is not an issue about being anti-Mexican.

Arizona has become a national leader in the restoration of the Rule of Law, with over 100,000 illegal aliens having left the state since 2007.

There are parents who are really angry that I decided to portray people who have come into the country illegally as decent human beings.

As the American public continues to focus more intensely on illegal immigration and securing the nation's borders, the number of members of the House Immigration Reform Caucus continues to grow.