Denise Dresser Quotes

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

Immigration should be enforced in a proportional and humane manner.

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'm not saying we need to stop immigration at all; people can come from wherever.

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 respect those who openly advocate for unlimited immigration to the United States. Open borders is an intellectually coherent, defensible position.

The left claims that Republicans hate Hispanics, which is just the most ludicrous thing I've ever heard, and the right just claims all we need to do is close the borders and do nothing else, which is also ridiculous.

A vote for Eric Cantor is a vote for open borders. A vote for Eric Cantor is a vote for amnesty.

We will decide who comes to our country.

We need a human presence at the border and a humane presence at the border.

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.

Let's get real: would any American president seriously open up their borders unconditionally to Mexico as the U.K. has done to the whole of the E.U.? No chance.

The Bush administration as well as Mexico and Canada have persons in the government in all three countries who want to a see a North American Union as well as a highway system that would bring goods into the west coast of Mexico and transport them up through Mexico into the United States and then in onto Canada.

I am the son and grandson of immigrants. And I know that securing our borders is not anti-immigrant and we will do it.

It's great that Trump has engendered a heated debate over illegal immigration and our open borders.

We believe that there are aspects of border security that Democrats and Republicans can agree on.

I believe that Senate Bill 1070 lit America on fire. I think we've all realized exactly what the situation is. And the people of Arizona have lived with these porous borders and illegal immigration into our state and that people throughout America realize that. Everybody understands the problem except the president of the United States.

I offered early on - I think I was governor about a month when I met President Obama - and said, 'I would like to visit with you in reference to border security, in reference to immigration. I'd like to be part of the discussion because I lived on the border all my life.' I've never received a call.

Rubio is clearly an open-borders Republican. He is the Chamber of Commerce candidate, the 'more is better' candidate, and the amnesty candidate.

That border wall's not going to put one single West Virginian to work.

Paul Ryan was grown in a petri dish in D.C. He is absolutely an open borders guy, through and through.

Immigration and border security are two separate issues, but Paul Ryan has taken the wrong side on both of those, in fact.

I am actually an open borders kind of guy.

If we don't enforce visa laws, we basically have open borders.