Quotes About Border

The truth is that what fascinates me is not so much being in a place as not being there: how places live in the mind once you have left them, how they are imagined before you arrive, or how they are seemingly called out of nothing to illustrate a thought or story like my tree down yonder. These mental spaces map our Innes lives more fully than any "real" map, delineating the borders of here and there that also shape what we see in the present.

God's love for others does not stop at the border; neither should ours.

You can love the Mexican culture, you can love your Mexican-American wife and also believe that we need to control the border.

If House Republicans can't get border security right, who will trust them on the other bills?

If Democrats don't want the government to shut down, support border security. It's that simple.

I grew up in Arizona. I love it. I'm a part of the desert. I feel like, really, I'm from the Sonoran Desert, which is - extends to both sides of the border. I'm really from that part of Mexico, also. And I hate that there's a fence, you know, running through it.

I was growing up in Hyesan, right by the closest North Korea-China border. China was just across the river: you could see across. So I was curious. On the river, on both sides, you have houses, then mountains. I wanted to know what was on the other side of the Chinese mountains.

My dad sent me a clipping about the self-defence militias in Mexico. Immediately, when I read it, I knew I wanted to create a parallel story about vigilantes on both sides of the border.

Well, I do want to talk about the challenges at the border. New Mexico, if you will, has become an Ellis Island and we want to take that issue seriously and we're not going to shy away that it presents significant challenges.

It is correct that securing the border is a government function, but when the government fails, it has a specific and significant impact on individual landowners.

The best advice I have is, actually present yourself at a legal border crossing and make your case. Cross illegally and get arrested, and your children will be given to us. That's the simple fact, I'm afraid.

The place of expansion is always on the border, on the edge... If we're going to become whole, we have to go to the edge.

Countries like Canada realize this, and have seen the burgeoning American resistance to immigration as something to be exploited. "If you guys cannot figure out your immigration system, we're going to invite the best and brightest to come north of the border," said Jason Kenney, Canada's immigration minister for Stephen Harper's Conservative government, before a 2013 trip to the San Francisco Bay Area.

Ticket and passport. We're crossing the border." "Oh. Sorry." Dan handed the conductor his ticket. " Grazie ." " De nada ," Dan said. "That's Spanish," Amy whispered. "No, it's whatever ," Dan said. "I'm too tired to think.

Individual children are separated from their parents only when those parents cross the border illegally and are arrested. We can't have children with parents who are in incarceration.

To be off the grid is to be disconnected from most of America's infrastructure without having to cross any border.

Those who feel a little insecure about our border have some reason to feel that way.

What happens is, illegal immigrants can run across the border, drop a baby, and say, 'Ha-ha, there's nothing you can do now. My kid's an American citizen.' Well, that wasn't the intent of the 14th Amendment. Americans would not agree with that. It creates a horrible incentive.

understand how, in the excitement produced in that border-warfare

She and I were bound together at the border between life and death. It was like that for us from the start

We're on the border of this world, speaking a common language. That's all.

Immigration and border security are two separate issues, but Paul Ryan has taken the wrong side on both of those, in fact.

The Yankees won the pennant, we went on to the World Series, 41 years after that in the city of Toronto. The great city of Toronto, and all the provinces in Canada, everybody reached out and they were excited because we won the first World Series ever, across the border.

I was living in the border area with China, in Hyesan City. But after my father was imprisoned for informal trading, I escaped to China.