David Dewhurst Quotes

Immigration should be enforced in a proportional and humane manner.

We do not control our borders. We don’t know who is coming across and we don’t know what is coming across.

We have to get control of our borders.

Our borders are being overrun.

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

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

Every town has become a border town and every State has become a border State.

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.

Resolutions of the State Council of Ohio, Junior Order of United American Mechanics urging passage of laws to prevent the landing on our shores of the vicious, lawless, pauperized, and anarchistic elements of foreign countries.

We cannot and will not surrender our border to those who wish to exploit our history of compassion and justice.

There should not be any immigration policy. We should welcome anyone who wants to come here.

Immigration has always been a concept that inflames passions.

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.

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

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.

I believe that if we don't offer legal ways of emigrating to Europe and immigrating within Europe, we will be lost. If those who come - who are, generally speaking, the poor and needy - are no longer able to enter the house of Europe through the front door, they'll keep making their way in through the back windows.

I do not have the slightest bit of confidence in the European Union to protect the borders of the European Union.

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

The influx of migrants must be stopped.

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

In 2019 folks were coming across the border and were sitting down, they were sitting down waiting for Border Patrol to come up because they knew they would be released within a matter of hours if not days into the interior of the U.S. and that was the goal.

That border wall's not going to put one single West Virginian to work.