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.

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.

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…

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…

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

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

We cannot, as a country that respects the rule of law, allow for basically the turning away from the legal system that we have in this country.

I would suggest to you that if you send a clear message that you are not coming into the United States, and if you are here you are going to be cared for and get you back into traveling condition and you are going to be sent back to where…

The power of boots on the ground I don't think can be overstated.

The question is this: Do we, as the United States of America, believe in our rule of law, and do we believe that we need to have a secure border between the United States and Mexico?

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.