Sheila Jackson Lee Quotes

In America, we don't even have a border. It's an open sieve.

I offered early on - I think I was governor about a month when I met President Obama - and said, 'I would like to visit with you in reference to border security, in reference to immigration. I'd like to be part of the discussion because I lived on the border all my life.' I've never received a call.

You look at our borders, they're like swiss cheese, everybody pours in.

I do not believe the border is secure and I still believe we have a long, long way to go.

We have no country if we have no border.

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.

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

Building walls is entirely sensible. We don't need to do it. We have got the English Channel.

Our borders are being overrun.

What 'Clandestino' is talking about is problems of borders, and more and more hermetic borders all around the world.

Immigration and border security are two separate issues, but Paul Ryan has taken the wrong side on both of those, in fact.

If you don't have borders, we don't have a country.

There are important questions about protecting and securing the border, but we don't need to build a wall.

The simple truth is that we've lost control of our own borders, and no nation can do that and survive.

It's a myth that the border can't be enforced. It can be enforced.

Whatever kind of device or barrier or policy to secure the border, that's necessary to secure the border, then do it.

If you ask Americans whether they've been successful at sealing the border with Mexico, they'll tell you that it's a very difficult proposition.

Hillary Clinton will be very weak on the border. She wants people just to flow in terms of illegal immigration. People are going to flow into the country. And it's going to be a disaster.

Americans want relief from uncontrolled immigration, which is what we have now.

A Trump administration will secure and defend our borders.

A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.

We still have a long way to go before we can declare America safe, and that means doing a better job along our borders, as well.

It's perfectly reasonable and responsible policy for any nation to maintain its sovereignty, to protect its borders. And [Donald] Trump does not believe in ending immigration. He's never proposed that.

We've undertaken the most substantial border security measures in a generation to keep our nation and our tax dollars safe and are now in the process of beginning to build a promised wall on the southern border.

I'm not an expert on the ways of Washington [but] it makes no sense to me that we're not funding control of our border.