John Culberson Quotes

But the people of Arizona, the people of America, have been promised that our borders would be secured for years and years and years, with it not happening. And I don't believe the people of America, certainly not the people of Arizona, are ready to discuss anything other at this point in time other than securing our borders.

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.

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.

Thank God we're going to try to continue and effectively defend our frontiers with the Border Patrol, with the Customs Department, with the Coast Guard, with the Armed Forces.

We have to get control of our borders.

Everybody knows that from a national security standpoint we need to secure our southern border.

I think we need the make sure our border is secure, not just from a standpoint of strategic fencing or border slats, whatever you want to call it, but we need to make sure that once and for all, we secure our border to make sure our communities are safe.

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

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

A number of people who have supported me on the border fence in the U.S. have observed the fences in Israel and their effectiveness.

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

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.

I supported Arizona's immigration law by joining in that lawsuit to defend it. Every day I have Texans on that border that are doing their job.

We must safely secure our border by investing in more law enforcement and technology, and receiving cooperation from the Mexican government.

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.

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.

Border security is a safety issue.

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

The simple truth is that we’ve lost control of our own boarders.

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

The Federal Government does not control our borders as the law requires …. I haven’t received a response saying that the check is in the mail….When people illegally cross our borders that the Federal Government is supposed to control, the Federal Government should pick up the tab.

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.

People believe you have to secure the border; whether you're doing it with a wall that keeps getting higher because of the crazy things the Mexicans say, if you go that Donald Trump route, whatever route you go, everyone agrees in our movement that you have to secure the border.