Jeff Sessions Quotes

A country isn't sovereign if we can't control who comes in and who's allowed to come in.

There is no constitutional right for a citizen in a foreign country, who has no status in America, to demand entry into our country. Such a right cannot exist. Such a right will never exist.

We will decide who comes to our country.

A key part of your sovereignty is the ability to control the influx and outflow of your people and is the ability to secure your border.

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

Our country was founded on immigration. We are all occupying Native American land here. At what point do we say 'It's our land, and nobody else can come here.'

If people can just pour into the country illegally, you don't have a country.

If you have a federal government that's not enforcing the law and does not preserve the integrity of its own borders, then naturally, states are going to take matters into their own hands.

Next, we will create a modern immigration law.

I support legal immigration.

Part of our sovereignty as a nation is having an immigration law that we can enforce.

I think that each country must protect its own borders, and that is why I'm simply asking for the abolition of Schengen.

This is a great country. You're trying to tell me we can't keep people from coming into our country if we really had the desire to do it? I don't buy it.

Looking at the history of our country, we have been and we are pro-immigrant, but we aren't going to be much of a country if we don't take care of our own people first and if we don't observe the rule of law.

The wall is not a bilateral issue. It's not something that we discuss with the American government. Every country has a sovereign right to protect its borders the best way that they see fit.

Every country has the right to manage who comes in and out of those borders.

We will look at the entire immigration question from the protection of outer borders through the asylum procedures to integration, in particular its efficacy.

The U.S. is a sovereign nation, and if the U.S. decides to build a wall on the southern border, it's their sovereign decision. We may like it or not.

We are a nation of immigrants, but we are also a nation of laws.

We can control our borders, we just choose not too.

You cannot grant amnesty. If the American people see us granting amnesty they will never again believe in legal immigration. They will never again support it, and that's wrong for our country, bad for our future.

If we are to believe that our immigration laws simply have no value, as our current policies would have us believe, should we then simply throw them all out, the entire lot of immigration law? I hope not.

I'm not saying we need to stop immigration at all; people can come from wherever.

I'm not anti-immigration.

I respect those who openly advocate for unlimited immigration to the United States. Open borders is an intellectually coherent, defensible position.