Lindsey Graham

Count me out for basically turning the war into a crime.

The Russian FSB sent a letter to the FBI and other agencies that we think this guy has become radical. You need to watch him.

Now we have a pretty robust guest worker program providing legal labor to employers who cannot find American workers.

The point I am trying to make is after having talked to the FBI, they told me they had no knowledge of him leaving or coming back.

Controlling jobs inside the country is just as important as securing the border.

I think we have 21,000 border patrol agents down at the border now?

We have doubled the number of border patrol agents since 2005 and 2006.

How much money have we spent on border security since 2005 or 2006?

I think the waiver he was talking about is in other areas and again, I think that is good to know that there is some discretion, but not in these areas.

Thank you, Madam Secretary. It has been a real pleasure working with you and your staff on this very important topic of border security.

The combination of systems work in concert. Increasing border security through fencing, technology and manpower, controlling finally at a national level who gets a job plus providing access to legal labor as a multi-layered approach to…

Eleven million are coming for employment.

We do not want to educate them in our finest universities and they go back to the country of origin and open up businesses against us.

If an American company is trying to find labor to stay in America, not leave the country, we want to make sure that they can do business in America.

What we are trying to do is make sure that the best and the brightest throughout the world who come to America to receive an education can stay here because it is to our benefit that they stay.

There is a consensus about border security, there is a consensus the status quo should be replaced.

I want to compliment the authors of this part of the bill and say you have done a good job.

Under this bill you have to advertise and you have to seek out an American worker before you can get a foreign worker.

If you are worried about amnesty, that is exactly what we have. We have 11 million people roaming around the country with really no way to find out who they are under the current construct.

I want American businesses to have access to labor that we cannot find here at home only after you have tried to find an American worker at a reasonable price, competitive wage, and that endeavor does not result in finding the worker.

There is no benefit to our economy by having a bunch of illegal workers in any part of the economy dominate that part of our economy.

I think most Americans would say that is a practical solution, and most Americans, like me, do not want to deal with this 20 years from now.

The pathway to citizenship has three triggers: there has to be a border security strategy created by Homeland Security...

If you paid them $40 an hour, you probably could, but nobody would be left in American agriculture.

America is the guardian of global security. People all through the region look to us for that leadership, the indispensable nation.