Steve Scalise Quotes

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.

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

We do need to strengthen our security at the border.

People think of border security in very different ways, but to me, it's very simple: border security is national security.

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

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

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

We need to make sure we have secure borders.

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

Border security is a safety issue.

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

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

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

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.

The mission of Border Patrol agents to protect the United States from harm is being impeded by a crisis Congress has the ability to fix, but as usual, chooses not to.

Our border security is laughable.

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

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

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

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

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 have a responsibility as an elected governor to govern and when I say govern, that means to make sure that our citizens are safe and we need the federal government to step up and do their job. They need to secure our borders.