Kris Kobach Quotes

Immigration reform is something that the Democrats have promised and the Republicans need.

It's great that Trump has engendered a heated debate over illegal immigration and our open borders.

The reality is that Trump's focus on immigrants is to misconceive of the terrorist problem that exists in the United States.

We must give Trump credit for asking many politically incorrect questions and challenging mainstream Republican dogma on immigration.

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

In terms of immigration, we're seeing a lot of Democrats and Republicans use the really elastic term, 'Comprehensive Immigration Reform,' and they don't totally understand what that means. For us in El Paso, it's part of a larger discussion about the nature of the border.

I'm on record saying nothing about immigration until we secure the borders. The borders are not secure.

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.

There is overwhelming bipartisan support outside of Washington that we need to finally secure our borders, enforce our laws, and stop the problem of illegal immigration.

The Republican Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of cheap labor, satisfying a very important constituency.

Yes we need enhanced border control. Yes we need to focus our efforts on those who pose a threat to our country. But let's not fall into the trap set by the Tea Party and others who would tell you that every single undocumented individual is a drug smuggler, a terrorist, or a threat to the American way of life. That is simply not true.

The issues surrounding illegal immigration are wide-ranging and complex, but there is no question about the need to secure our borders.

If you can’t control your borders, you can’t control immigration. And if we can’t control immigration, there is no way re can reform immigration.

Neither party wants to do anything about the immigration problem. The Republicans want the cheap labor. The Democrats want the votes.

Our immigration policies are national suicide.

The closed-door policy [to immigration] is one of the root causes of our wars.

You can’t fix legal immigration until you fix illegal immigration.

If we continue to dump more Mexican immigrants on the country, we'll get to the point that we'll never have another Republican president.

When I first arrived in the U.S. House of Representatives, I naively believed that it was primarily the Democrats who were committed to open borders. But I quickly learned the entire Republican establishment also supported a policy of immigration non-enforcement.

I will tell you unequivocally, a wall from sea to shining sea is not the right direction to go.

If Democrats oppose a border wall, they're just saying they want continued, unendingly illegal immigration.

I've never met a Democrat in Congress who wants open borders or who doesn't believe in enforcing immigration laws.

When President Trump and I arrived in Washington, there was a new sense that the crisis of illegal immigration would now be taken seriously.

Is Trump correct that we should stop the flow of illegal immigrants? Yes, but again, words matter, and there is a way to engage voters on this issue without creating fear and insulting many hard-working Hispanics who love this country.

The first thing we need is for President Obama to finally enforce current immigration law and strengthen our borders. To take up any other agenda is bad policy for the American people and bad politics for Republicans.