Duncan Hunter Quotes

We need to make sure we have secure borders.

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

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.

I'm in favor of building the fence, and doing everything technologically to protect our borders. But the other way to secure the border, and one of the things we must do, is put in place good guest-worker programs that employers can actually use.

I have always believed in enforcing the border, and doing that before you do amnesty.

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

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.

There are important questions about protecting and securing the border, but we don't need to build a wall.

Securing the border is priority number one.

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

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.

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.

If I were president of the United States, I'd build a great wall along the Mexican border and not let anybody in.

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.

Border security is a safety issue.

I work for one man. His name is Donald Trump. He has told me one thing: 'Secure the border.'

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 can't get serious about immigration reform until we stop people from crossing the border illegally.

People believe you have to secure the border; whether you're doing it with a wall that keeps getting higher because of the crazy things the Mexicans say, if you go that Donald Trump route, whatever route you go, everyone agrees in our movement that you have to secure the border.

We do need to strengthen our security at the border.

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.

We must fix our immigration system so we control who comes and goes, and that starts by securing our southern border.