Illegal Crossing Quotes

No border controls anywhere in the world are able to prevent determined criminals from crossing borders.

We do not control our borders. We don’t know who is coming across and we don’t know what is coming across.

Some people say these aren't huge numbers, but let's also remember that our job here is to make sure this doesn't turn into a new route for ever-increased illegal migration, so I want to stop it now as much as I possibly can.

Hopping the fence or wading the Rio Grande River isn't part of America's immigration process.

We can't get serious about immigration reform until we stop people from crossing the border illegally.

Individual children are separated from their parents only when those parents cross the border illegally and are arrested. We can't have children with parents who are in incarceration.

[T]hese people have shown a remarkable ability, ladies and gentlemen, to cross borders, boundaries - they get anywhere they want to go. They can do it without water for a long time. They don't get apprehended, and they will do things other people won't do. So, our money, early money, is on the Hispanics.

Walls are very important when you're separating two urban areas where if you're actually able to get over the border you can probably get into the underground network in about 30 seconds. But when you're out in the middle of the desert, it makes no sense because you have border security people have up to a day to apprehend people who are crossing illegally.

On my recent trip to the Mexico border, Border Patrol agents in California told me they have arrested the same coyotes 20 times, but they are not prosecuted.

Our policy is if you break the law, we will prosecute you. You have an option to go to a port of entry and not illegally cross into our country.

Under my administration, anyone who illegally crosses the border will be detained until they are removed out of our country and back to the country from which they came.

Under my administration, anyone who illegally crosses the border will be detained until they are removed out of America and back to the country from which they came.

The best advice I have is, actually present yourself at a legal border crossing and make your case. Cross illegally and get arrested, and your children will be given to us. That's the simple fact, I'm afraid.