Susan Collins Quotes

We need to make sure we have secure borders.

Border security is a safety issue.

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.

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

Mexico secures their border. Why shouldn't we be able to secure ours?

The fact of the matter is, is that we need our borders secured. Certainly, we realize that there's going to have to be some kind of immigration reform, but I don't believe any of that's going to move forward until our border is secured.

People think of border security in very different ways, but to me, it's very simple: border security is national security.

It's the federal government's job to secure the border.

We also need to strengthen the security of our borders and ports and strictly control immigration.

We need to know who's in the United States. We need to know everyone who's in the United States that comes in here from a foreign country. And we have to separate the ones who are dangerous from the ones who aren't. To accomplish that, we need a fence. We need a technological fence. We need a border patrol.

Thank God we're going to try to continue and effectively defend our frontiers with the Border Patrol, with the Customs Department, with the Coast Guard, with the Armed Forces.

There is no question that we must do more to secure our borders - but how we go about securing them is also important.

Homeland security is a joke if we don’t have border security.

I think we have to secure our borders and make sure that people coming in are coming here not to do us harm.

The people that work the border will tell you that physical barriers, backed up by men and women, is what we need to secure the southwest border.

Yes, there should be tough border security. Yes, there should be foolproof ID cards, with biometrics, for Social Security and employment purposes.

Everybody knows that from a national security standpoint we need to secure our southern border.

The border is way more porous than it should be, and I think we'd be open to discussing anything that enhances border security.

What we have to quit talking about is border wall. We need border security.

As far as a wall is concerned, the experts actually say that in some places a wall is necessary, in other places a double wall is necessary, and in other places that a wall wouldn't help. So I'm for whatever it takes to secure our border with Mexico. We've got to do it. I'm for then enforcing our laws.

I don't have a problem with enhanced border security, perhaps to include fencing. I think the mistake is believing that border security is as simple as just putting up a wall from sea to shining sea.

I'm for whatever it takes to secure our border with Mexico.

There are important questions about protecting and securing the border, but we don't need to build a wall.

The secretary of Homeland Security working with myself and my staff will begin immediate construction of a border wall.

How can we protect homeland security unless the government stops the invasion of illegal aliens?