Will Hurd Quotes

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

There are important questions about protecting and securing the border, but we don't need to build a wall.

The secretary of Homeland Security working with myself and my staff will begin immediate construction of a border wall.

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.

There is no question that we must do more to secure our borders - but how we go about securing them is also important.

We have a crisis with a need to secure the border.

The president has promised greater border security. We can agree to that. A literal wall might not be the most effective means to that end, but we can provide the resources necessary to secure the border with smart and affordable measures.

We need a wall or a sophisticated fence, as long as it secures our border.

Here's what we know: after the Secure Fence Act, we have built 600 miles of wall and fencing on a 2,000 mile border. What that has done is not in any demonstrable way made us safer.

As far as a wall is concerned, the experts actually say that in some places a wall is necessary, in other places a double wall is necessary, and in other places that a wall wouldn't help. So I'm for whatever it takes to secure our border with Mexico. We've got to do it. I'm for then enforcing our laws.

I don't have a problem with enhanced border security, perhaps to include fencing. I think the mistake is believing that border security is as simple as just putting up a wall from sea to shining sea.

I'm for whatever it takes to secure our border with Mexico.

We have to build the wall. We have to stop drugs from pouring in. We have to stop people from just pouring into our country. We have no idea where they're from.

Ultimately, we have to have the wall on the border. If we don't have the wall, we are doing nothing.

I think Donald Trump laid out a series of priorities that doesn't ends with border security. It begins with border security. And after we secure the border, not only build a wall, but beneath the ground and in the air, we do internal enforcement.

I will build a great, great wall on our southern border. And I will have Mexico pay for that wall.

We're going to have a real border, because we're going to have a wall.

A number of people who have supported me on the border fence in the U.S. have observed the fences in Israel and their effectiveness.

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.

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

The Secure Fence Act, which authorizes the construction of 700 miles of security barriers along the southwest border, has now been sent to President Bush for his signature. This piece of legislation is an important piece of the border security puzzle.

We also need to strengthen the security of our borders and ports and strictly control immigration.

If I were president of the United States, I'd build a great wall along the Mexican border and not let anybody in.

Border security is a safety issue.

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