Beto O'Rourke Quotes

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

Obviously, overall infrastructure needs on the Southwest and Northern borders are mounting. We need a major push in Congress to remedy this.

We need to make sure we have secure borders.

Part of the job for me and others from El Paso who live along the border is to dispel the myths about how supposedly dangerous the border is.

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.

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.

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 border is way more porous than it should be, and I think we'd be open to discussing anything that enhances border security.

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.

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

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.

Securing the border is priority number one.

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.

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.

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

And now, since I've been governor since last January, I have written numerous letters to the administration in regards to securing our borders with absolutely no response. So we have been facing this crisis, and it's devastating the people of Arizona. And I feel as governor I have a responsibility to protect the citizens.

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

We must safely secure our border by investing in more law enforcement and technology, and receiving cooperation from the Mexican government.

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.

The simple truth is that we’ve lost control of our own boarders.

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