Vicente Fox Quotes

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

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.

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.

Neither party wants to do anything about the immigration problem. The Republicans want the cheap labor. The Democrats want the votes.

Immigration policy should be based on what is good for America, not what is good for Mexico. Immigration to America should not be the safety valve for Mexico.

As long as there are jobs waiting in our country, there is no way we can stop illegal immigration at the borders.

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.

The closed-door policy [to immigration] is one of the root causes of our wars.

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

Because of Congress’s failure to act, States like Arizona have no choice but to take a strong action to discourage the further flow of illegal immigration through our borders.

I’m not going to pay for that fucking wall,

America is the only First World country in the world sharing a long, undefended border with a Third World country, making the crossing both easy and appealing to Mexicans.

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.

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 must have the courage to restrict legal immigration instead of expanding it, even if we sometimes have to build a wall.

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

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

I'll stand with President Trump. We'll get tough, and we'll build that wall.

We can control our borders, we just choose not too.

If we are to believe that our immigration laws simply have no value, as our current policies would have us believe, should we then simply throw them all out, the entire lot of immigration law? I hope not.

This issue of border security is not about, about ethnicity. I sit there on occasion with 10 or 12 sheriffs from my district, many of which are Democrats with last names like Reyes, with last names like Herrera and Lucio. And they are crying out for border security as well. So again, this is not an issue about being anti-Mexican.

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.