Aaron Klein Quotes

The recent, single-year influx of unaccompanied minors from foreign countries into the United States is a direct result of President Obama's policies of encouraging amnesty and failing to enforce existing immigration laws.

The Obama administration has been weak and inconsistent in enforcing immigration laws.

Well, nobody's being deported - nobody - practically. And so what the people down there getting is the American government is telling us that you're not going to be able to stay. But, in fact, they're letting almost everybody stay. And so what they're trying to do is show that at least some people are going to get deported.

Obama has a strong record on immigration enforcement, outdoing both Republican and Democratic predecessors. He has deported over 1 million immigrants, focusing on those with criminal records. As documented by many nonpartisan sources, by 2011, Obama had reduced illegal immigration crossings to net zero.

DACA led to a mass influx of illegal immigrant children crossing the Mexican border into the U.S. who came believing they would likely be able to stay.

There will be no use of military forces in immigration. There will be no - repeat, no - mass deportations.

California will not become a cog in the Trump deportation machine.

Let me clear, I do not support abolishing ICE.

The hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens who have unlawfully crossed our border are posing a significant threat to the government's ability to effectively enforce our nation's immigration laws.

No one disagrees that undocumented criminals should be deported.

Self-deportation benefits the illegal alien because he can leave without being arrested or detained, and self-deportation benefits the taxpayer because the government doesn't have to spend money arresting the alien, detaining the alien and holding removal hearings.

It's time we stop illegal immigration in Kansas.

Illegal immigration is crisis for our country. It is an open door for drugs, criminals, and potential terrorists to enter our country. It is straining our economy, adding costs to our judicial, healthcare, and education systems.

Our immigration system is not broken. We don't need, and Congress shouldn't enact, amnesty.

The other thing I like, in fact, several months ago I introduced a bill to end the absurd catch and release policy where our government has been giving tickets, essentially, to people who enter illegally and then letting them go and show up of their own volition.

The most dangerous area where our laws are not being faithfully executed are the laws designed to protect Americans against the millions of aliens who enter our country illegally every year.

It's clear that we need comprehensive immigration reform.

Illegal immigration costs taxpayers $45 billion a year in health care, education, and incarceration expenses.

Obama's Justice Department has also targeted Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Sheriff Joe bills himself as America's Toughest Sheriff for good reason. Maricopa County is responsible for one out of every four deportations in the country.

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

I absolutely advocate for comprehensive immigration reform.

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

Immigration laws are the only laws that are discussed in terms of how to help people who break them.

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.

The simple answer to the illegal alien problem is to secure our boarders and enforce the law.