Donald Trump Quotes

We will finally complete the biometric entry-exit visa tracking system, which we need desperately. For years Congress has required biometric entry-exit visa tracking systems but it has never been completed. The politicians are all talk, no action. Never happens, never happens... In my administration we will ensure that this system is in place.

There is international criminal organizations penetrating our southern based borders, and we need to do something about it. Secure the border, enforce the law, no amnesty, and go forward with the legal immigration system that gives priority to American working families and wages.

I support concrete and progressive immigration reform based on three primary criteria: family reunification, economic contributions, and humanitarian concerns.

Next, we will create a modern immigration law.

The underlying part of any comprehensive immigration bill is family unit.

You reduce illegal immigration by making it harder to get jobs here, or easier to get jobs south of the border. This idea that we can't pass an immigration law until we hit some imaginary security target is just a way to derail reform.

I support legal immigration. I don't support amnesty because it is not fair to people standing in line at consulates around the world.

I support legal immigration.

It's much too easy to come here illegally and very, very difficult to become an immigrant through lawful process. I think we need to reverse those.

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

We must pass immigration reform.

We want to do this methodically, smart, starting with border security then looking at immigration reform measures.

Any immigration-reform effort must begin first with border security and enforcement of the law.

We must pursue immigration reform - it's something we have to do, something that starts with border security.

In future, migrants desiring to enter our State will need to be registered and their personal details and identification proof will have to be submitted to the police station.

If we build the legal immigration system better, then they come here, and we'll have a whole lot less illegal immigration.

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

Marco [Rubio] has opposed at every point increased security - border security for those who come to our country.

[Illegal immigration] costs the taxpayers of the United States a lot of money. And it's unfair to Americans who are working every day to pay their own bills. It's also unfair to a lot of people who have waited in line for years and years in other countries to be legal immigrants.

When politicians talk about immigration reform, they usually mean the following, amnesty, open borders, lower wages.

I try and make it to the word exactly what I said four years ago and what I said was that those who've come here illegally should not be given a special pathway, a favored pathway to become permanent residents merely by virtue of having come here illegally. That they should be in line with everybody - they should be given the opportunity to get in line with everybody else but they go to the back of the line.

I will reform our broken visa system. Nearly half of the people in this country illegally came here on legal visas and simply never left. We need to fix that.

Ending illegal immigration only strengthens legal immigration.

I want people to know that I am tough on illegal immigration and we are working to provide needed border security.

Some people are so surprised that we're having strong borders. Well, that's what I have been talking about for a year and a half, strong borders.