Political Quotes

“I am not sure what else to call it. We are a generous people, and I, myself, am the product of legal immigration through Ellis Island. We want to remain that way. The United States is the most generous nation on the planet in that regard, I think last year admitting, legally, about 1.7 million people into our country. All we are saying is: Listen, please just knock on the door. We have a process here. We have got to do it the right way. Don't just barge in. Just ring the doorbell. But these folks are saying: Well, we don't want to ring the doorbell. You can clearly see why, if you are trafficking in little girls or young men, if you are trafficking in the 90-plus percent of heroin coming across the border and into every single town, laced with fentanyl. If you are trafficking in MS-13, you are not going to go to the point of entry and say: ``Hey, Mr. Border Patrolman, I have got this stash of drugs here. You don't mind if I bring this into your country.'' No, you are going to go where they are not. The President is saying this is where we need to secure our border as well, as well as the points of entry. Again, I don't understand why we are in this mutually exclusive position. I don't think that Democrats don't want to secure the border, but securing the border has to be more, something more than putting a drone up in the sky so that we can see them coming.…”