Ryan Zinke Quotes

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

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.

The voters in my district, and around the country, have demanded that Congress get a hold on the influx of illegal immigrants and tighten the security around our borders.

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.

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

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 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.

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

You know Donald Trump will secure our borders.

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

When you look at all of the problems that are streaming and flowing over that border, the first thing we have to do is secure it. Job number one.

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.

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

We're going to do whatever is necessary to build the border wall, to stop this ongoing crisis of illegal immigration.

But again, to dealing with border security, is an issue that - it's like having a fire in the back of your house that you need to put out first before you talk about who, who you're going to let in the front door.

I'm on record saying nothing about immigration until we secure the borders. The borders are not secure.

Illegal immigration presents a huge problem. That is why I decided to spend a week along the southern border to see firsthand how bad the problem is and, more importantly, what Congress can do to fix it.

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

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