J. D. Hayworth Quotes

Well, we have a crisis along the Mexican border right now, a state of emergency as declared by a bipartisan group of Texas House members just last fall. You know, we've had almost 200,000 OTMs - the government categorizes OT 'other, other than Mexicans' - along the Mexican border.

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

We have two borders--one with Mexico and the other with Canada, I've done a lot of looking, but I have never seen an illegal Canadian .... Canada has a sound, stable economy, and that's what you need to solve the border problem. That that's why a wall by itself will never work.

We have to get control of our borders.

Everybody knows that from a national security standpoint we need to secure our southern border.

Wake up, America. With a porous southern border, we have no idea who's in our country.

Mr. Trump never made any derogatory or disparaging comments about Mexican immigrants... He was talking about Mexico. They're allowing people to pour through their borders, and that's a problem for our national security.

In 2019 folks were coming across the border and were sitting down, they were sitting down waiting for Border Patrol to come up because they knew they would be released within a matter of hours if not days into the interior of the U.S. and that was the goal.

Thousands of children entering the country illegally have become the face of the immigration crisis in the U.S.

Our borders are being overrun.

There's no way without real evidence I would ever send the National Guard to the border.

For those of us living in Texas and other border states, the reality of an open and unsecured border is a part of everyday life.

I believe that the Left is trying to create a crisis on the border.

I was able to see what our border looks like and the fact it is under assault on a daily basis from people trying to bring illegal people and illegal drugs into our country.

I'm going to deliver a detailed policy address on one of the greatest challenges facing our country today, illegal immigration.

Illegal immigration is a genuinely national issue, and resolving it requires a national commitment not just on health care but also border control, law enforcement and other resources.

I don't know what 'operational control' of the border means, but I do understand the English language. And as I understand that phrase, that's not true. We do not have operational control.

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.

Illegal immigration presents a huge problem. That is why I decided to spend a week along the southern border to see firsthand how bad the problem is and, more importantly, what Congress can do to fix it.

I think in the U.S., the border fence is no longer an immigration issue primarily; it's a security issue.

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

One way to sensitize Washington to the illegal alien problem is to make them pay for it.

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

Americans are rightly disturbed by the large numbers of illegal immigrants entering this country. The jobs they hold might otherwise be held by our citizens or legal immigrants, and the public services they use impose burdens on our taxpayers. That's why our administration has moved aggressively to secure our borders by hiring a record number of new border guards, by deporting twice as many criminal aliens as ever before, by cracking down on illegal aliens who try to take American jobs, and by barring welfare benefits to illegal aliens.

We simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States undetected, undocumented, unchecked, and circumventing the line of people who are waiting patiently, diligently, and lawfully to become immigrants in this country.