Dan Crenshaw Quotes

We must make immigration a legal, orderly process to eliminate this issue, not further criminalize it.

The inhumane treatment of families turned an immigration issue into an immigration crisis.

The asylum process is being completely taken advantage of.

Asylum is for people fleeing persecution, not those searching for a better job. Yet our broken system - with its debilitating court rulings, a crushing backlog, and gaping loopholes - allows illegal migrants to get into our country anyway and for whatever reason they want. This gaming of the system is unacceptable.

If I am elected president we will secure the border and we will end the illegal immigration.

I don't know the right number of immigrants to let in.

In thinking about immigration and migration, I could not care less whether someone filled out the paperwork correctly or passed a civics exam. I oppose the immigration of an African who waits his turn and genuinely ‘wants to be an American’; conversely, I would gladly accept thousands of ‘Swedish boat people’ who wash up on the shores.

Immigration policy should be set and enforced federally.

Immigration is not going to be a 'side issue' in 2016 - it is the issue.

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

We should be clear that we prefer a system that allows people to come to the U.S. with visas, not in the hands of smugglers.

Cracking down on illegal immigration was a key priority when I ran in 2002, 2006, and during my time as governor. Illegal immigration is a big problem, and it needs to be strongly addressed.

We will look at the entire immigration question from the protection of outer borders through the asylum procedures to integration, in particular its efficacy.

People are realizing if they jump across our border and they have a child with them they can raise their hand and claim asylum and they will be caught and released into the homeland.

President Trump needs to listen to the screams of the children and the screams of this nation.

As responsible politicians, you have to manage migration.

We need deportation centres.

I don't know why legal immigration even exists anymore when I can just put on some bronzer, get on a dingy boat, and just show up at the beaches of Sicily with the Koran in my hand.

Europe can't take in huge masses of foreign people in an unlimited, uncontrolled manner.

If we are going to be compassionate, we have to have stricter border security and laws.

Well, my constituents are happy that the Republican Party has finally gotten off its duff, seeing that we do control the House and the Senate and the presidency, and taken up the issue of illegal immigration.

Immigration should be enforced in a proportional and humane manner.

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

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

I'm on record saying nothing about immigration until we secure the borders. The borders are not secure.