Jacky Rosen Quotes

As far as a wall is concerned, the experts actually say that in some places a wall is necessary, in other places a double wall is necessary, and in other places that a wall wouldn't help. So I'm for whatever it takes to secure our border with Mexico. We've got to do it. I'm for then enforcing our laws.

I don't have a problem with enhanced border security, perhaps to include fencing. I think the mistake is believing that border security is as simple as just putting up a wall from sea to shining sea.

There is no question that we must do more to secure our borders - but how we go about securing them is also important.

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.

The president has promised greater border security. We can agree to that. A literal wall might not be the most effective means to that end, but we can provide the resources necessary to secure the border with smart and affordable measures.

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

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

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

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.

Border security is a complex issue and will remain a top priority during the 2007 legislative year. As Congress works to fix this problem, I will continue to push for strong measures that beef up security at our borders.

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

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

The Secure Fence Act, which authorizes the construction of 700 miles of security barriers along the southwest border, has now been sent to President Bush for his signature. This piece of legislation is an important piece of the border security puzzle.

Finally, we need more Border Patrol agents. Although Congress has already tripled the number of Border Patrol agents since the late 1980s, more are still needed.

I'm in favor of building the fence, and doing everything technologically to protect our borders. But the other way to secure the border, and one of the things we must do, is put in place good guest-worker programs that employers can actually use.

Border security is a safety issue.

Homeland security is a joke if we don’t have border security.

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

You know Donald Trump will secure our borders.

Here's what we know: after the Secure Fence Act, we have built 600 miles of wall and fencing on a 2,000 mile border. What that has done is not in any demonstrable way made us safer.

We believe that there are aspects of border security that Democrats and Republicans can agree on.

We do need to strengthen our security at the border.

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

The fact of the matter is, is that we need our borders secured. Certainly, we realize that there's going to have to be some kind of immigration reform, but I don't believe any of that's going to move forward until our border is secured.

I offered early on - I think I was governor about a month when I met President Obama - and said, 'I would like to visit with you in reference to border security, in reference to immigration. I'd like to be part of the discussion because I lived on the border all my life.' I've never received a call.