Phyllis Schlafly 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.

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

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

People think of border security in very different ways, but to me, it's very simple: border security is national security.

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

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

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.

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

I think in the U.S., the border fence is no longer an immigration issue primarily; it's a security issue.

After granting amnesty to illegals 20 years ago, we have gone from 3 million illegals to 11 million illegals. Our government has been fooled once by this amnesty argument, let us not be fooled again.

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 have a responsibility as an elected governor to govern and when I say govern, that means to make sure that our citizens are safe and we need the federal government to step up and do their job. They need to secure our borders.

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.

No issue is more important to this Congress than securing our borders and protecting our homeland, and I guarantee it is very important to our constituents.

Border security is a safety issue.

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

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 the border and build the wall; we need to end sanctuary cities, deport criminals, and bring law and order back to this country.

Mr. Trump never made any derogatory or disparaging comments about Mexican immigrants... He was talking about Mexico. They're allowing people to pour through their borders, and that's a problem for our national security.

We cannot sustain illegal immigration in perpetuity. It will not work for our country.

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.

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.

Everybody will say that they're not opposed to immigration; they're opposed to illegal immigration. That's what I'm saying.