Rick Perry

It is like putting 1,000 more people on the Titanic when you knew what was going to happen.

You either have an incredible inept administration or they're in on this somehow.

But if you say that we should not educate children who have come into our state for no other reason than they have been brought there by no fault of their own, I don't think you have a heart. We need to be educating these children because…

You either have an incredible inept administration or they're in on this somehow. I mean, I hate to be conspiratorial but, I mean, how do you move that many people from Central America across Mexico and then into the United States without…

We have record-high numbers other than Mexicans being apprehended at the border. These are people that are coming from states like Syria that have substantial connections back to terrorist regimes and terrorist operations.

my message to President Obama is to secure this border, Mr. President, finally address this issue and secure this border.

Texas needs to be reimbursed for the $500 million-plus that we have spent securing the border over the past decade.

Our responsibility as citizens, both as a State governor in my case and you as a Congressman, is to secure this country.

Every child allowed to remain encourages hundreds more to attempt the journey.

Whether it is the right decision from my perspective to immediately deport them or the short-sighted and tragic decision to essentially turn them loose in the United States, some may think by allowing them to stay here that it is a more…

Let's make no mistake about it, there is more than one crisis happening on the U.S. border.

If we are going to be a country that respects the rule of law, and if we are ever going to have a conversation about immigration reform... it will never happen until you secure the border.