Mike Pence Quotes

Let's be very clear first off. Nothing has changed about Donald Trump's position on dealing with illegal immigration.

I think [ immigration] is still is a problem, whether it's 11 million or 2 million. Why is it - why have the situation decreased? Are we going to say because of the crackdown or are we going to say that the jobs are not here?

End illegal immigration.

Sheriff Joe Arpaio, a great guy. He endorsed me because I'm the best in immigration. And I think by his definition of the best, it's the best and the toughest.

You are going to hear many things from Mr. Trump today in his speech on immigration. One, no amnesty. He is absolutely going to build that wall. That's been the center piece of his campaign from day one.

Hillary Clinton is for sanctuary cities. She's for catch and release. She's for open borders. She's actually considerably to the left of President Obama on the issue of immigration.

I think [Donald Trump] will do something on immigration.

Donald Trump is not softening his position on immigration.

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.

I believe that the great majority of people coming here illegally have no other option. They want to provide for their family. But we need to control our border.

Thousands of cities in America are crying out for relief from the burden of illegal immigration. Small towns like mine can no longer wait for Washington.

We must safely secure our border by investing in more law enforcement and technology, and receiving cooperation from the Mexican government.

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.

I'm sure the president doesn't enjoy being called deporter-in-chief.

I am, you know, adamantly against illegal immigrants.

For the first time since 2007 there is political momentum behind fixing the immigration system. President Obama in his State of the Union speech reached out to the right-wing by saying illegal immigrants seeking citizenship will have to pay taxes, learn English and get in line behind people who are trying to enter the United States legally.

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

Illegal immigration undermines legal immigration.

We need employer sanctions to avoid illegal immigration so that legal immigration may dominate.

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

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

The simple answer to the illegal alien problem is to secure our boarders and enforce the law.

Our immigration system is broken.

The system is broken …. We must secure our borders. But we have to have a way of matching willing workers with willing employers and have a way for people to do the jobs that Americans don’t seem to want to do…. But I don’t believe that we are going to take people who have been here for 40 or 50 years and ship them back where they came from…. As long as there is a demand for workers, workers will come.

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