Ronald Reagan Quotes

We have no country if we have no border.

If you don't have borders, we don't have a country.

A country without a border is like a person in a house without a front door. Anybody can enter and you cannot ask anybody to leave.

Sovereign countries have the right, and I would argue the responsibility of securing their borders and controlling who comes and goes in their country. All sovereign countries have that right. We have not exercised that right.

It's perfectly reasonable and responsible policy for any nation to maintain its sovereignty, to protect its borders. And [Donald] Trump does not believe in ending immigration. He's never proposed that.

A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.

To be called a sovereign nation, a nation has to be able to control its own borders. It is controlling your own destiny in a way, and we don't control our own borders.

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

We have to get control of our borders.

A key part of your sovereignty is the ability to control the influx and outflow of your people and is the ability to secure your border.

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

It's a myth that the border can't be enforced. It can be enforced.

Our country must have borders.

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

In America, we don't even have a border. It's an open sieve.

Ronald Reagan said a nation without borders is not a nation. Donald Trump is committed to restoring the borders of this nation and securing our nation, enforcing our laws.

We [americans] need to control our border just like people have to control who goes in and out of their house.

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

Courts have long recognized the federal government's robust power to inspect people and goods entering the country. After all, the very foundation of national sovereignty is a nation's ability to protect its borders.

We will decide who comes to our country.

Great countries need to secure their border for national security purposes, for economic purposes and for rule of law purposes.

If you can’t control your borders, you can’t control immigration. And if we can’t control immigration, there is no way re can reform immigration.

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

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

The American people are a welcoming and generous people. But those who enter our country illegally, and those who employ them, disrespect the rule of law. And because we live in an age where terrorists are challenging our borders, we simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States undetected, undocumented, and unchecked. Americans are right to demand better border security and better enforcement of the immigration laws.