Matt Gaetz Quotes

The problem we are dealing with at the border is not a Democratic problem. It is not a Republican problem. It is an American problem.

I’m not going to pay for that fucking wall,

We can prove to the American people that fixing the crisis at our border is more important than scoring political points.

Even President Obama has not suggested he could get another country to pay for building a wall between Mexico and the United States.

I'm not backing down on immigration. I'm not backing down on the wall.

Thousands of children entering the country illegally have become the face of the immigration crisis in the U.S.

The Mexicans are not going to build the wall... they're not going to do it.

While Congress repeatedly finds plenty of time to vote on resolutions of condemnation over border security, they've done virtually nothing to actually solve the problem.

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

Well, my constituents are happy that the Republican Party has finally gotten off its duff, seeing that we do control the House and the Senate and the presidency, and taken up the issue of illegal immigration.

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.

I'm not wise enough to know what is the right immigration policy for the United States of America.

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

The plight of the terrified Central American children who have flooded across the U.S. border to escape violence and poverty in their homelands has launched a passionate and often bitter debate in Washington.

There's places where a secure fence will work, and that strategic type fencing will work. But the idea that people can easily just stand up and say 'let's just build a fence' and be done with it and wipe our hands, and it's going to secure the border, that's not reality.

Well, we have a crisis along the Mexican border right now, a state of emergency as declared by a bipartisan group of Texas House members just last fall. You know, we've had almost 200,000 OTMs - the government categorizes OT 'other, other than Mexicans' - along the Mexican border.

The left claims that Republicans hate Hispanics, which is just the most ludicrous thing I've ever heard, and the right just claims all we need to do is close the borders and do nothing else, which is also ridiculous.

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

We are not going to build a pressure in Mexico. We're not building walls to retain our people.

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

Learning to distinguish the illegal immigrant from the legal immigrant does not solve the problem of illegal immigration.

This is something that I witnessed out on the campaign trail for three years, which is that there is a total disconnect between the rhetoric regarding immigration and the reality. And I'm speaking as a border state.

The Democratic Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of voters.

If you want a president to stop amnesty, to secure the borders and keep us safe, then support a candidate who has led the fight to stop amnesty to secure the borders and to keep us safe.

House Republicans want to pass a strong border security, illegal immigration bill. We want a bill. There is no ifs, ands or buts about it.