If Democrats oppose a border wall, they're just saying they want continued, unendingly illegal immigration.
The U.S. government has a sacred, solemn, inviolable obligation to enforce the laws of the United States to stop illegal immigration and to secure and protect the borders.
Obama has a strong record on immigration enforcement, outdoing both Republican and Democratic predecessors. He has deported over 1 million immigrants, focusing on those with criminal records. As documented by many nonpartisan sources, by 2011, Obama had reduced illegal immigration crossings to net zero.
It's not like Mexicans have an illegal immigration organ in their body and at 14 kicks off a hormone and shows them how to come to the United States illegally. It's a question of desperation for a vast majority of them.
Illegal immigration can never be completely stopped, no matter how high the wall or how many patrol agents you have watching it.
One way to stop illegal immigration is a border wall.
I will continue to enforce all the laws, including illegal immigration. Nothing changes.
The immigration issue is, I recognize, one that generates a lot of passion, but it does not make sense for us to want to push talent out.
Refugee policy is only one part of immigration law needing a drastic overhaul.
Border enforcement coupled with employer sanctions and threatening employers who hire immigration law violators is insufficient.
I served as Attorney General John Ashcroft's chief adviser on immigration law at the U.S. Department of Justice during 2001-03.
Florida doesn't need an immigration law.
Next, we will create a modern immigration law.
Congress makes immigration law. It's that simple. That is how our system works.
If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package.
Know when cities and states refuse to help enforce immigration laws, our nation is less safe.
A big goal of the liberal Democrats in Congress is to try to do away with any effective cooperation to enforce federal immigration laws.
Immigration policy is a complicated issue. Or perhaps one should say immigration policies are complicated, since we have many different immigration laws and practices which interact in complex ways.
The Obama administration has been weak and inconsistent in enforcing immigration laws.
I've never met a Democrat in Congress who wants open borders or who doesn't believe in enforcing immigration laws.
