Ted Cruz Quotes

Arizona has become a national leader in the restoration of the Rule of Law, with over 100,000 illegal aliens having left the state since 2007.

We must curtail the flow of illegal immigrants across the Mexican border.

The federal government is responsible for addressing how to address the status of the estimated 9 to 15 million people who are in the country illegally, but local and state law enforcement can be helpful partners in that regard.

We need to secure the border and build the wall; we need to end sanctuary cities, deport criminals, and bring law and order back to this country.

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.

Go after the illegal employers. No free stuff. Take the handcuffs off law enforcement. They'll go home! They'll self-deport! The problem today is they break the law. They come across the border. And again, what's coming across that border today are bad guys!

The federal government has failed us, so we, the elected officials of small-town America, are getting tough with illegal immigration.

Governor Romney is a real hardliner on illegal immigration.

I will continue to enforce all the laws, including illegal immigration. Nothing changes.

Should we attempt border security first, which I believe we should, we still need to face the fact that comprehensive reform is necessary. This must include a guest worker program and dealing with the 11 million people who are here today that are contributing to our economy.

Illegal immigration can never be completely stopped, no matter how high the wall or how many patrol agents you have watching it.

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

It's the federal government's responsibility to secure our borders. We passed Senate Bill 1070 as another tool in order to protect the citizens of Arizona. We have over 500,000 illegal immigrants living in Arizona. And we simply cannot sustain it.

People believe you have to secure the border; whether you're doing it with a wall that keeps getting higher because of the crazy things the Mexicans say, if you go that Donald Trump route, whatever route you go, everyone agrees in our movement that you have to secure the border.

I think we need to go to a system... where we have tough enforcement. Where if you're here illegally, you're going to be deported.

I do not support amnesty. I do not support driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants.

Kansas and this country have been rewarding illegal immigration for a long time. Here in this state, that's going to stop the moment I take office.

We have a serious problem in this country, and that is securing this country and making sure that the rule of law's upheld. And I applaud Arizona in regards to this.

Once you secure that border, then we can start doing an analysis of what we are going to do with all of the folks that got here illegally.

If we cared about safer streets, we'd build the wall and secure the border.

I am pleased to be endorsed by Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Like Sheriff Joe, I believe that illegal immigration is a major problem that undermines the rule of law.

Donald Trump is right - we must secure the border and end sanctuary cities.

As the son of legal immigrants to America who came from India, I support stronger border security for our nation as well as deporting undocumented immigrants who have committed serious crimes.

I stand with President Trump in the fight to make sanctuary cities pay for the border wall.

Arizona really has been a trailblazer in discouraging illegal immigration.