Joe Arpaio Quotes

Wake up, America. With a porous southern border, we have no idea who's in our country.

How can we protect homeland security unless the government stops the invasion of illegal aliens?

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

The reality is that Trump's focus on immigrants is to misconceive of the terrorist problem that exists in the United States.

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.

Let's make the haystack smaller. Let's say for a while, until we can figure out who's coming, who's going, and who's overstayed their visa, let's have extra scrutiny and figure out what's going on, because there's a whole segment of the world that is intent on sending people here to attack us.

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.

I respect those who openly advocate for unlimited immigration to the United States. Open borders is an intellectually coherent, defensible position.

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

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.

Legislation passed in the aftermath of September 11, 2001 enhanced our intelligence capabilities and strengthened our national defense, but until now our nation's immigration policies have not adapted to the needs of a post-September 11th world.

We need to make sure we have secure borders.

Going forward, as we work to strengthen our border in the interests of homeland security, we must also recognize the economic importance of immigration reform.

Thank God we're going to try to continue and effectively defend our frontiers with the Border Patrol, with the Customs Department, with the Coast Guard, with the Armed Forces.

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.

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

“Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States"

Mexico secures their border. Why shouldn't we be able to secure ours?

If your aim is to attack the United States, it is hard to imagine a more difficult way of getting here than by posing as a refugee.

Everybody knows that from a national security standpoint we need to secure our southern border.

We do need to strengthen our security at the border.

I think people all across the country want us to secure the border and make sure that terrorists are not coming into our country.

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.