Joe Arpaio Quotes

Governor Romney is a real hardliner on illegal immigration.

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

We all agree on the need to better secure the border and to punish employers who choose to hire illegal immigrants. We are a generous and welcoming people, here in the United States, but those who enter the country illegally, and those who employ them, disrespect the rule of law and they are showing disregard for those who are following the law.

The federal government is responsible for addressing how to address the status of the estimated 9 to 15 million people who are in the country illegally, but local and state law enforcement can be helpful partners in that regard.

I'm not for amnesty. People must play by the rules. And border enforcement must come first.

Any immigration-reform effort must begin first with border security and enforcement of the law.

If we are to believe that our immigration laws simply have no value, as our current policies would have us believe, should we then simply throw them all out, the entire lot of immigration law? I hope not.

We must fix our broken immigration system. That means stopping illegal immigration. And it means welcoming properly vetted legal immigrants, regardless of their race or religion. Just like we have for centuries.

While I support immigration regulated through a legal framework, I do not support rewarding those who broke the law to get here.

My record of opposition to illegal immigration is unquestioned.

Well, I think we need to have attrition by enforcement. We need to secure our borders. We need to enforce our laws.

We're a nation of immigrants - there's no question about that. But we're also a nation of laws. I think we have to honor both of those.

I am, you know, adamantly against illegal immigrants.

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.

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

The system is broken …. We must secure our borders. But we have to have a way of matching willing workers with willing employers and have a way for people to do the jobs that Americans don’t seem to want to do…. But I don’t believe that we are going to take people who have been here for 40 or 50 years and ship them back where they came from…. As long as there is a demand for workers, workers will come.

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

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.

Part of our sovereignty as a nation is having an immigration law that we can enforce.

We simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States undetected, undocumented, unchecked, and circumventing the line of people who are waiting patiently, diligently, and lawfully to become immigrants in this country.

The Obama administration has been weak and inconsistent in enforcing immigration laws.

We need to be talking about things like the DREAM Act. We need to also be talking about e-verify. We also need to be talking about border security.

I do not support amnesty. I do not support driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants.

I completely disagree with the idea of eliminating ICE. We should not eliminate ICE: it's like saying we should eliminate the police force.

Once you secure that border, then we can start doing an analysis of what we are going to do with all of the folks that got here illegally.