Kirstjen Nielsen Quotes

I will tell you unequivocally, a wall from sea to shining sea is not the right direction to go.

There is nothing unbiblical about building a wall and protecting citizens.

If Democrats oppose a border wall, they're just saying they want continued, unendingly illegal immigration.

Trump wants to build a wall at the border of Mexico, while Clinton wants to tear down all walls.

In terms of immigration, we're seeing a lot of Democrats and Republicans use the really elastic term, 'Comprehensive Immigration Reform,' and they don't totally understand what that means. For us in El Paso, it's part of a larger discussion about the nature of the border.

As the American public continues to focus more intensely on illegal immigration and securing the nation's borders, the number of members of the House Immigration Reform Caucus continues to grow.

I'm not wise enough to know what is the right immigration policy for the United States of America.

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.

The voters in my district, and around the country, have demanded that Congress get a hold on the influx of illegal immigrants and tighten the security around our borders.

If I were president of the United States, I'd build a great wall along the Mexican border and not let anybody in.

We are not going to build a pressure in Mexico. We're not building walls to retain our people.

Protecting national security amounts to looking for needles in a haystack. The work becomes more difficult if the haystack is larger. Restricting immigration generally, and illegal immigration in particular, limits growth in the haystack, and supports protection of national security.

House Republicans want to pass a strong border security, illegal immigration bill. We want a bill. There is no ifs, ands or buts about it.

No fence has ever been able to stop history, much less a border fence…. A 10 foot fence only takes an 11 foot ladder to scale it.

Our immigration policies are national suicide.

Immigration reform is something that the Democrats have promised and the Republicans need.

I work for one man. His name is Donald Trump. He has told me one thing: 'Secure the border.'

I don't want a wall being built around the Netherlands.

I believe we need to focus first and foremost - as Donald Trump has done with such force and such passion - on border integrity and building the wall.

This is a great country. You're trying to tell me we can't keep people from coming into our country if we really had the desire to do it? I don't buy it.

We're getting a wall. We're definitely getting a wall. That's the one thing we know about a Trump presidency.

The reality is that Trump's focus on immigrants is to misconceive of the terrorist problem that exists in the United States.

If we continue to dump more Mexican immigrants on the country, we'll get to the point that we'll never have another Republican president.

When I first arrived in the U.S. House of Representatives, I naively believed that it was primarily the Democrats who were committed to open borders. But I quickly learned the entire Republican establishment also supported a policy of immigration non-enforcement.

Even President Obama has not suggested he could get another country to pay for building a wall between Mexico and the United States.