Henry Bonilla Quotes

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.

The voters in my district, and around the country, have demanded that Congress get a hold on the influx of illegal immigrants and tighten the security around our borders.

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

Any immigration-reform effort must begin first with border security and enforcement of the law.

My record of opposition to illegal immigration is unquestioned.

Governor Romney is a real hardliner on illegal immigration.

Protecting national security amounts to looking for needles in a haystack. The work becomes more difficult if the haystack is larger. Restricting immigration generally, and illegal immigration in particular, limits growth in the haystack, and supports protection of national security.

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

Because of Congress’s failure to act, States like Arizona have no choice but to take a strong action to discourage the further flow of illegal immigration through our borders.

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

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.

Building a wall won't solve our border security challenges.

We have got to secure the border and enforce existing immigration laws.

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

Immigration and border security are two separate issues, but Paul Ryan has taken the wrong side on both of those, in fact.

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

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.

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.

If people can just pour into the country illegally, you don't have a country.

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

There's places where a secure fence will work, and that strategic type fencing will work. But the idea that people can easily just stand up and say 'let's just build a fence' and be done with it and wipe our hands, and it's going to secure the border, that's not reality.

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

And now, since I've been governor since last January, I have written numerous letters to the administration in regards to securing our borders with absolutely no response. So we have been facing this crisis, and it's devastating the people of Arizona. And I feel as governor I have a responsibility to protect the citizens.

Secure our borders first. Let us know and let us make sure the American people know that we're taking care of the important business of dealing with the illegal immigration into this country. You cannot begin to address the concerns of the people who are already here unless and until you have made certain that no more are coming in behind them.

We cannot continue to allow immigrants to come here illegally. And in this age of terrorism, we must not let in refugees whose intentions cannot be determined.