Pete Domenici Quotes

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.

Thank God we're going to try to continue and effectively defend our frontiers with the Border Patrol, with the Customs Department, with the Coast Guard, with the Armed Forces.

The border is safe; it's secure. El Paso is the safest city in America. Let's own that. Let's be proud of that. And then, I think, good policy can follow from that, better outcomes included.

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.

As president, the first thing I will do is secure the border. It will take money, manpower, and technology - but most of all, it will take political will.

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.

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

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

Federal authorities do not have the manpower or the resources to protect America's international borders.

Finally, we need more Border Patrol agents. Although Congress has already tripled the number of Border Patrol agents since the late 1980s, more are still needed.

We need to make sure we have secure borders.

Border security is a safety issue.

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.

We have to get control of our borders.

I think what Democrats need to do is they need to work for the country and make sure that not only the southern border but the northern border is secure - make sure that we have the ability on the borders to be able to screen every vehicle coming across to make sure that drugs don't come into this country.

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.

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.

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.

I drafted and proposed a law to secure our borders and build the border wall - and make the sanctuary cities pay for it.

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

We could secure the border in 72 hours. We could. We just don't have the political will in Washington.

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.

We're going to do whatever is necessary to build the border wall, to stop this ongoing crisis of illegal immigration.

I expect Congress to continue to work on that, to secure the border, to invest in smart technology, and in personnel that makes a difference there.