Raul Grijalva Quotes

While Congress repeatedly finds plenty of time to vote on resolutions of condemnation over border security, they've done virtually nothing to actually solve the problem.

We can control our borders, we just choose not too.

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.

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

No fence has ever been able to stop history, much less a border fence…. A 10 foot fence only takes an 11 foot ladder to scale it.

This issue of border security is not about, about ethnicity. I sit there on occasion with 10 or 12 sheriffs from my district, many of which are Democrats with last names like Reyes, with last names like Herrera and Lucio. And they are crying out for border security as well. So again, this is not an issue about being anti-Mexican.

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.

I don't know what 'operational control' of the border means, but I do understand the English language. And as I understand that phrase, that's not true. We do not have operational control.

I'm not wise enough to know what is the right immigration policy for the United States of America.

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.

And now, since I've been governor since last January, I have written numerous letters to the administration in regards to securing our borders with absolutely no response. So we have been facing this crisis, and it's devastating the people of Arizona. And I feel as governor I have a responsibility to protect the citizens.

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

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

The majority of surveys throughout this Nation show that the American people are advocating for a comprehensive and realistic approach to immigration reform.

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

We will never stop illegal immigration until this country has a comprehensive, realistic immigration policy.

The President would usually talk to me about matters relating to the immigration problem.

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'm sure the president doesn't enjoy being called deporter-in-chief.

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.

Illegal immigration can never be completely stopped, no matter how high the wall or how many patrol agents you have watching it.

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

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 on the issue of immigration, you have to deal with it sensibly.