Rand Paul Quotes

You cannot have one or two million immigrants a year and still have English as the only official language of the country.

If you have a federal government that's not enforcing the law and does not preserve the integrity of its own borders, then naturally, states are going to take matters into their own hands.

Because of Congress’s failure to act, States like Arizona have no choice but to take a strong action to discourage the further flow of illegal immigration through our borders.

I think we gotta have tough conditions. Tell people to come out of the shadows. If they’ve committed a crime deport them no questions asked. They’re gone. If they if they’ve been working and are law abiding, we should say, ‘Here are the conditions for you staying: you have to pay a stiff fine because you came here illegally, you have to pay back taxes, and you have to try to learn English, and you have to wait in line.’

The federal government has failed us, so we, the elected officials of small-town America, are getting tough with illegal immigration.

Every time anybody in Washington talks about legal status, amnesty, anything of that nature, it becomes a magnet that lures people in quickly into the United States.

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

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.

There is a huge number of people outside our borders who would love to come here. In fact, many of them come here, get well educated, and then are required to leave... This is a factor in income inequality.

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 am, you know, adamantly against illegal immigrants.

Resolutions of the State Council of Ohio, Junior Order of United American Mechanics urging passage of laws to prevent the landing on our shores of the vicious, lawless, pauperized, and anarchistic elements of foreign countries.

One way to sensitize Washington to the illegal alien problem is to make them pay for it.

Immigration—legal and illegal—has shaped and will continue to shape California's destiny.

English should be acknowledged once and for all as the official language of the United States.

If someone comes here illegally, we owe them absolutely nothing.

The day where America can be the welfare system for Mexico is gone.

The reason we have to close the back door of illegal immigration is so that we may keep open the front door of legal immigration.

Illegal immigration undermines legal immigration.

We need employer sanctions to avoid illegal immigration so that legal immigration may dominate.

As long as there are jobs waiting in our country, there is no way we can stop illegal immigration at the borders.

The simple truth is that we’ve lost control of our own boarders.

The simple answer to the illegal alien problem is to secure our boarders and enforce the law.

We're not going to deport 12 million people, so let's stop this fiction. Let's give them permanent status.

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