Mark Helprin Quotes

Amnesty is not the answer as it will only encourage more illegal immigrants to enter.

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.

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

If we are to believe that our immigration laws simply have no value, as our current policies would have us believe, should we then simply throw them all out, the entire lot of immigration law? I hope not.

As the American public continues to focus more intensely on illegal immigration and securing the nation's borders, the number of members of the House Immigration Reform Caucus continues to grow.

Our immigration system is not broken. We don't need, and Congress shouldn't enact, amnesty.

Everybody will say that they're not opposed to immigration; they're opposed to illegal immigration. That's what I'm saying.

I'm not wise enough to know what is the right immigration policy for the United States of America.

The voters in my district, and around the country, have demanded that Congress get a hold on the influx of illegal immigrants and tighten the security around our borders.

My record of opposition to illegal immigration is unquestioned.

Illegal immigration continues to be a major problem in the United States. We have people waiting to come here legally. And we should not be rewarding people who have come here illegally.

The federal government has failed us, so we, the elected officials of small-town America, are getting tough with illegal immigration.

We will never stop illegal immigration until this country has a comprehensive, realistic immigration policy.

Protecting national security amounts to looking for needles in a haystack. The work becomes more difficult if the haystack is larger. Restricting immigration generally, and illegal immigration in particular, limits growth in the haystack, and supports protection of national security.

We're a nation of immigrants - there's no question about that. But we're also a nation of laws. I think we have to honor both of those.

Illegal immigration can never be completely stopped, no matter how high the wall or how many patrol agents you have watching it.

Illegal immigration undermines legal immigration.

You can’t fix legal immigration until you fix illegal immigration.

I have fought on the front lines to prevent illegal immigration. I know Donald Trump will stand with me and countless Americans to secure our border.

You won't hear the leadership in the Republican Party admit it, but there are many in the House and Senate who know that illegal immigration has to be stopped and legal immigration has to be reduced. We are giving away the country so a few very rich people can get richer.

Our borders have got to be secured. You know, when President Reagan, who was one of my idols, granted amnesty to about three million illegal immigrants, it was based on the fact that the borders would be secured. That didn't happen. It didn't happen during the Bush administration.

Since the '86 amnesty, the number of illegal immigrants has quadrupled. That should teach Congress a very important lesson: Amnesty 'bends' the rule of law. And bending the rule of law to reach a 'comprehensive' deal winds up provoking wholesale breaking of the law.

Normally, I would seek to compromise, but not on immigration policy.

If Democrats oppose a border wall, they're just saying they want continued, unendingly illegal immigration.

I support DACA, but I also support protecting the border.