Ric Keller 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.

We can't get serious about immigration reform until we stop people from crossing the border illegally.

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

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

One way to bring down crime in the state of California and every state in the union is to have an enforceable border. That means let's build that border fence. When people want to come into this country, let's ask them to knock on 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.

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.

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.

I'm in favor of building the fence, and doing everything technologically to protect our borders. But the other way to secure the border, and one of the things we must do, is put in place good guest-worker programs that employers can actually use.

We need to make sure we have secure borders.

Border security is a safety issue.

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.

You know Donald Trump will secure our borders.

The fact of the matter is, is that we need our borders secured. Certainly, we realize that there's going to have to be some kind of immigration reform, but I don't believe any of that's going to move forward until our border is secured.

I drafted and proposed a law to secure our borders and build the border wall - and make the sanctuary cities pay for it.

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

If we cared about safer streets, we'd build the wall and secure the border.

Donald Trump is right - we must secure the border and end sanctuary cities.

I'm for whatever it takes to secure our border with Mexico.

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

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.

There is international criminal organizations penetrating our southern based borders, and we need to do something about it. Secure the border, enforce the law, no amnesty, and go forward with the legal immigration system that gives priority to American working families and wages.

Border security is a complex issue and will remain a top priority during the 2007 legislative year. As Congress works to fix this problem, I will continue to push for strong measures that beef up security at our borders.