Steve Brill Quotes

The threat of terrorism is great and with today's porous borders, someone could bring a biological weapon into our country or sneak a dirty bomb across unmanned portions of our borders.

If they [terrorists] are going to send an atomic bomb into this country, they’re going to wrap it in marijuana and send it in with the millions of pounds of marijuana that comes across the border.

And you know, it's not just illegal immigration. Terrorists can come across. They're devastating our ranchers down in southern Arizona - drop houses, kidnapping, automobile accidents, extortion, drugs, the spill-over with the drug cartels. We're facing all of it.

In the aftermath of September 11th, it is critical to secure our borders.

These are busy times for the Border Patrol, the customs agents, immigration folks; but if we are going to send these agencies to fight a war on drugs, to fight a war against illegal behavior, we have to send them the proper tools.

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

“Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States"

If terrorists are already on our southern border, a national-security failure has already occurred.

There's been intelligence that terrorists would look to programs such as the visa waiver program to exploit.

The numbers of terrorists that we have caught coming - we actually don't catch them coming across the border. We usually catch them in some other context.

The thing is, is that every terrorist attack we've had since 9/11 has been legal immigration.

President Trump has no higher priority than the safety and security of the American people. And he made it clear in this election, particularly in the wake of the terrorist attack in Paris where individuals had used a refugee program to gain access to that country.

Terrorists can utilize any vulnerability in the system and that would include outbound shipments.

We are in a war on terrorism. We need to conduct that war and take it to the terrorists, not here at home.

We remain vulnerable. There is no such thing as 100 percent security against terrorism.

And the people who live in the southern part of my state do not have a secure environment. To wit, there are signs that the government put up that say, 'Warning. You are in a drug smuggling area and a human smuggling area.'

Despite fearful rhetoric to the contrary, terrorism is not a transcendent threat. A terrorist attack cannot possibly destroy our country's way of life; it's only our reaction to that attack that can do that kind of damage.

I am committed to protecting our country against the threat of terrorism.

You can gesture at the transnational problem of Islamist terrorism all you like, but it's just hot air unless you invest in proper security on the ground in your own country, with the right safeguards to civil liberties.

Look, we constantly live looking at the issue of the threat of terrorism.

Americans are rightly concerned about the security and the integrity of the nation's borders because the system is broken. Some are concerned about the possibility of terrorists crossing our borders and coming into our cities.

Drug smugglers often use juveniles to carry their shipments into the U.S. because they know the juveniles will not be prosecuted if caught.

We are keeping New Jersey one step, several steps, ahead of terrorism.

Since Homeland Security got up to speed in the spring of 2002, it as warned of al Qaeda using or targeting amusement parks, apartment building, banks, beer coolers, boats, cargo planes, cell phone, churches, crop dusters, farmer's almanacs, hijacked oil trucks, inner-city train, malls, nightclubs, reservoirs, scuba divers, sports stadiums, and subways. Add limousines to the list and helicopters.

There will be a significant terrorist attack in the coming weeks or months and the attack will be spectacular.