David K. Shipler Quotes

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

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.

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.

I work for one man. His name is Donald Trump. He has told me one thing: 'Secure the border.'

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.

Yes, there should be tough border security. Yes, there should be foolproof ID cards, with biometrics, for Social Security and employment purposes.

We ought to make sure that people coming here ought to be vetted and that we secure this federal border.

We have to get control of our borders.

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

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

To enter the U.K., you have to show your passport - whoever you are, wherever you're from - and you always will. That's because we have opted out of the passport-free Schengen area and have retained full control over who comes in.

We are a nation of borders and - I mean, that is one of the main things that the federal government is in charge with, and that is protecting the citizens of the United States and our whole nation.

If you don't control the borders, it doesn't matter what immigration laws you have.

There's a long conversation we're going to have about how to enforce immigration laws. But physically securing the border is essential.

I want people to know that I am tough on illegal immigration and we are working to provide needed border security.

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

When I travel abroad, because I'm Columbian, I'm always one that they check twice and security and I'm the one that they open my bag and the one they pull to the side to check the visa.

Hopping the fence or wading the Rio Grande River isn't part of America's immigration process.

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.

One way to bring down crime in the state of California and every state in the union is to have an enforceable border. That means let's build that border fence. When people want to come into this country, let's ask them to knock on the front door.

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.

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

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