Mitt Romney Quotes

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

A Trump administration will secure and defend our borders.

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.

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

We need to make sure we have secure borders.

We have to get control of our borders.

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.

The idea that you're going have zero people crossing the border is unrealistic. But today we know that's not the case. Today we know we've got a porous border and people are coming in, and we don't know who they are. So secure the border then we can have a conversation about it.

I do not believe the border is secure and I still believe we have a long, long way to go.

Some people are so surprised that we're having strong borders. Well, that's what I have been talking about for a year and a half, strong 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.

We need to know who's in the United States. We need to know everyone who's in the United States that comes in here from a foreign country. And we have to separate the ones who are dangerous from the ones who aren't. To accomplish that, we need a fence. We need a technological fence. We need a border patrol.

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.

Border security is a safety issue.

We do not control our borders. We don’t know who is coming across and we don’t know what is coming across.

The Federal Government does not control our borders as the law requires …. I haven’t received a response saying that the check is in the mail….When people illegally cross our borders that the Federal Government is supposed to control, the Federal Government should pick up the tab.

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.

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.

I think we need the make sure our border is secure, not just from a standpoint of strategic fencing or border slats, whatever you want to call it, but we need to make sure that once and for all, we secure our border to make sure our communities are safe.

While leaving our own border wide open. Anybody can come in. But don't worry, we're getting a wall.We're getting bad people out of this country.

If you don't control the borders, it doesn't matter what immigration laws you have.