Tom Tancredo Quotes

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.

Immigration reform is something that the Democrats have promised and the Republicans need.

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.

In terms of immigration, we're seeing a lot of Democrats and Republicans use the really elastic term, 'Comprehensive Immigration Reform,' and they don't totally understand what that means. For us in El Paso, it's part of a larger discussion about the nature of the border.

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.

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.

Every town has become a border town and every State has become a border State.

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

We all learned in kindergarten that the beginning is a very good place to start. As we have this debate on illegal immigration and illegal entry into this country, let's begin at the very beginning by sealing the borders to this great Nation.

I think Donald Trump taps into an anger that I hear every day. People are angry that a commonsense thing like securing the border or ending sanctuary cities is somehow considered extreme. It's not extreme; it's common sense. We need to secure the border.

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.

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

Neither party wants to do anything about the immigration problem. The Republicans want the cheap labor. The Democrats want the votes.

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

We have two borders--one with Mexico and the other with Canada, I've done a lot of looking, but I have never seen an illegal Canadian .... Canada has a sound, stable economy, and that's what you need to solve the border problem. That that's why a wall by itself will never work.

I believe we need to focus first and foremost - as Donald Trump has done with such force and such passion - on border integrity and building the wall.

The Republican Party needs to be very, very careful that it maintains the Golden Rule in its rhetoric regarding immigration policy.

If we've got Democrats, whether they be in the House or the Senate, that are not willing to put our national security as their very top priority and secure our borders, I think it's time that we get someone else in that position and that goes regardless of party.

We're getting a wall. We're definitely getting a wall. That's the one thing we know about a Trump presidency.

You won't hear the leadership in the Republican Party admit it, but there are many in the House and Senate who know that illegal immigration has to be stopped and legal immigration has to be reduced. We are giving away the country so a few very rich people can get richer.

If the president wanted to fix our broken immigration system, he could start by securing the border and enforcing the laws already passed by Congress.

We believe that there are aspects of border security that Democrats and Republicans can agree on.

We must have the courage to restrict legal immigration instead of expanding it, even if we sometimes have to build a wall.

There is nothing unbiblical about building a wall and protecting citizens.

I will tell you unequivocally, a wall from sea to shining sea is not the right direction to go.