Thomas Sowell Quotes

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

I think it's a fundamental responsibility of the federal government to enforce our nation's borders.

If you can’t control your borders, you can’t control immigration. And if we can’t control immigration, there is no way re can reform immigration.

The people that work the border will tell you that physical barriers, backed up by men and women, is what we need to secure the southwest border.

What we have to quit talking about is border wall. We need border security.

Securing the border is priority number one.

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

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

It's the federal government's job to secure the border.

These are our borders, and we have to secure our borders.

Finally, we need more Border Patrol agents. Although Congress has already tripled the number of Border Patrol agents since the late 1980s, more are still needed.

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.

I'm in favor of building the fence, and doing everything technologically to protect our borders. But the other way to secure the border, and one of the things we must do, is put in place good guest-worker programs that employers can actually use.

Great countries need to secure their border for national security purposes, for economic purposes and for rule of law purposes.

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

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.

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.

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.

We have to get control of our borders.

The border is way more porous than it should be, and I think we'd be open to discussing anything that enhances border security.

The fact of the matter is, is that we need our borders secured. Certainly, we realize that there's going to have to be some kind of immigration reform, but I don't believe any of that's going to move forward until our border is secured.

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

Border security is the most basic and necessary responsibility of a sovereign nation.

The men and women at our borders, given adequate resources, are doing an excellent job of keeping us safe.

The Southern borders of Bavaria are being protected by Hungary.