John Sopko Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

The American people are a welcoming and generous people. But those who enter our country illegally, and those who employ them, disrespect the rule of law. And because we live in an age where terrorists are challenging our borders, we simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States undetected, undocumented, and unchecked. Americans are right to demand better border security and better enforcement of the immigration laws.

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

We have to get control of our borders.

We have a crisis with a need to secure the border.

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

I think people all across the country want us to secure the border and make sure that terrorists are not coming into our country.

Our borders are being overrun.

I was able to see what our border looks like and the fact it is under assault on a daily basis from people trying to bring illegal people and illegal drugs into our country.

But the people of Arizona, the people of America, have been promised that our borders would be secured for years and years and years, with it not happening. And I don't believe the people of America, certainly not the people of Arizona, are ready to discuss anything other at this point in time other than securing our borders.

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.

We all learned in kindergarten that the beginning is a very good place to start. As we have this debate on illegal immigration and illegal entry into this country, let's begin at the very beginning by sealing the borders to this great Nation.

Border security is a safety issue.

The simple truth is that we’ve lost control of our own boarders.

The Federal Government does not control our borders as the law requires …. I haven’t received a response saying that the check is in the mail….When people illegally cross our borders that the Federal Government is supposed to control, the Federal Government should pick up the tab.

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.

You know Donald Trump will secure our borders.

Those who feel a little insecure about our border have some reason to feel that way.

Wake up, America. With a porous southern border, we have no idea who's in our country.