Allen West Quotes

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

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.

Any immigration-reform effort must begin first with border security and enforcement of the law.

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.

We must fix our broken immigration system. That means stopping illegal immigration. And it means welcoming properly vetted legal immigrants, regardless of their race or religion. Just like we have for centuries.

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

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.

There are compelling reasons to implement a true America First immigration plan, starting with border security. We are a land of immigrants. Immigration, with assimilation, has generally been good for America.

I think it's a fundamental responsibility of the federal government to enforce our nation's borders.

I will continue to enforce all the laws, including illegal immigration. Nothing changes.

We need to make sure we have secure borders.

Therefore, if we are a Nation of laws and a Nation of immigrants, immigration should occur within a legal framework, not through the machinations of illegal schemes and scams that threaten our national security.

We all learned in kindergarten that the beginning is a very good place to start. As we have this debate on illegal immigration and illegal entry into this country, let's begin at the very beginning by sealing the borders to this great Nation.

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.

Part of our sovereignty as a nation is having an immigration law that we can enforce.

My colleagues and friends in the Freedom Caucus believe something very simple: Our country deserves a secure border and immigration laws that put the safety, security and prosperity of Americans first.

Immigration policy is a complicated issue. Or perhaps one should say immigration policies are complicated, since we have many different immigration laws and practices which interact in complex ways.

We have to have legal immigration, which has to be something that benefits our country.

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.

Every country has the right to manage who comes in and out of those borders.

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

What I'm in favor of is making sure we have security for our country and we can control access to our country.

What we're going to do is have an immigration system that's in our national interest, and that's not what we've had up until now, We've had freedom of movement, which means we haven't been in control of who enters our country - those individuals have, just because of their nationality. And that's going to change.

We need an immigration policy that works for America First.

We cannot sustain illegal immigration in perpetuity. It will not work for our country.