Donald Trump Quotes

The people that work the border will tell you that physical barriers, backed up by men and women, is what we need to secure the southwest border.

It's just astonishing to me that the media is so interested in how much it costs to secure our border and has no interest in the cost of refusing to secure our border.

Ends the policy of catch and release at the border, requires other countries to take back their criminals.

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.

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.

These are our borders, and we have to secure our borders.

The Secure Fence Act, which authorizes the construction of 700 miles of security barriers along the southwest border, has now been sent to President Bush for his signature. This piece of legislation is an important piece of the border security puzzle.

We cannot afford all this illegal immigration and everything that comes with it, everything from the crime and to the drugs and the kidnappings and the extortion and the beheadings and the fact that people can't feel safe in their community. It's wrong! It's wrong!

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.

Border security is a safety issue.

Border security and homeland security are one and the same.

Homeland security is a joke if we don’t have border security.

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

There must be protection of the external borders.

The border is way more porous than it should be, and I think we'd be open to discussing anything that enhances border security.

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.

What we have to quit talking about is border wall. We need border security.

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

We have to stop illegal immigration in order to ensure security in Europe.

If you think winning means a porous border with 400,000 people apprehended illegally every year, then your definition of winning is different than mine.

Some people say these aren't huge numbers, but let's also remember that our job here is to make sure this doesn't turn into a new route for ever-increased illegal migration, so I want to stop it now as much as I possibly can.

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

If you don't control the borders, it doesn't matter what immigration laws you have.

We've ordered a crackdown on sanctuary cities that refuse to comply with federal law and that harbor criminal aliens and we've ordered an end to the policy of catch and release on the border, no more release. No matter who you are, release.

There are important questions about protecting and securing the border, but we don't need to build a wall.