Will Hurd Quotes

The men and women at our borders, given adequate resources, are doing an excellent job of keeping us safe.

If we want to boost border security, we have to help law enforcement agencies beef up their resources to meet this demand. We cannot have one without the other.

Our border patrol does a great job under these very dangerous conditions. They use very sophisticated equipment, including gamma rays, to detect drugs and illegal immigrants as they enter the U.S.

I know there's a lot of discussion about building a 2000-mile wall. I think we need to complete the Secure Fencing Act, but we need greater technology and aviation aspects down on the Southwest border so we can see the threat from the sky. Until you can see it, you don't know where it's coming from and how to correctly stop it.

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.

We can't deal with the flood in the orchards until we cap the floodwaters coming into them. And that means giving our Border Patrol the total resources they need to get their job done, and even utilizing military personnel in particular hot crossing spots.

We have to get control of our borders.

There must be protection of the external borders.

The Southern borders of Bavaria are being protected by Hungary.

A country that does not fulfill its tasks in protecting the external borders has to cope with the consequences.

If you don't control the borders, it doesn't matter what immigration laws you have.

We still have a long way to go before we can declare America safe, and that means doing a better job along our borders, as well.

The idea that you're going have zero people crossing the border is unrealistic. But today we know that's not the case. Today we know we've got a porous border and people are coming in, and we don't know who they are. So secure the border then we can have a conversation about it.

Securing the border is priority number one.

I do not believe the border is secure and I still believe we have a long, long way to go.

Border security is the most basic and necessary responsibility of a sovereign nation.

Protecting a border is not a nice thing. It is not a matter of aesthetics; it cannot be done with flowers and teddy bears.

While a physical barrier can be effective in urban areas, each sector of the border faces unique geographical, cultural and technological challenges that would be best addressed with a flexible, sector-by-sector approach that empowers the Border Patrol agents on the ground with the resources they need.

If we cared about safer streets, we'd build the wall and secure the border.

Our border security is laughable.

Each sector of the border faces unique geographical, cultural and technological challenges that would be best addressed with a flexible, sector-by-sector approach that empowers the Border Patrol agents on the ground with the resources they need. What you need in San Diego is very different from what you need in Eagle Pass, Tex.

The northern border is a different problem set than our southern border. We're not going to put a fence between America and Canada, across Glacier Park. I grew up there. We can use some technological controls. We work with the Canadians more, and there's a lot of property we share, along with tribal lands.

We cannot have this porous border, where people come in and out; we don't know who they are.

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.

The numbers of terrorists that we have caught coming - we actually don't catch them coming across the border. We usually catch them in some other context.