Quotes About Borders

Before 1919, Mexicans who entered the United States at the border did not need to apply for entry.

Not one country in existence today has had the same borders and government for as long as two hundred years. The world will continue changing.

the intellectuals and ideologues behind these new movements have now found a set of issues they can unite around—issues that work across borders and are easy to sell online. Opposition to immigration, especially Muslim immigration, both real and imagined, is one of them; promotion of a socially conservative, religious worldview is another. Sometimes, opposition to the EU, or to international institutions more generally, is a third.

I have always felt that the action most worth watching is not at the center of things but where edges meet. I like shorelines, weather fronts, international borders. There are interesting frictions and incongruities in these places, and often, if you stand at the point of tangency, you can see both sides better than if you were in the middle of either one.

On the other hand, the disconnection of millions of young people from the possibility of a decent education, a job, and a fulfilling life fuels rage and violence that spill across borders. Without positive connections to schools, jobs, families, and visions of their future, they connect to destructive causes that make them feel like part of a larger whole.

I am against the policy which would promote the entry of immigrants into Europe, which cannot accept them.

I drafted and proposed a law to secure our borders and build the border wall - and make the sanctuary cities pay for it.

We never want to expand our borders... but I can say that our security forces and defence forces possess all the might to protect our borders.

The most dangerous area where our laws are not being faithfully executed are the laws designed to protect Americans against the millions of aliens who enter our country illegally every year.

I believe that our national security lies not just in protecting our borders, but in bridging divides.

No issue is more important to this Congress than securing our borders and protecting our homeland, and I guarantee it is very important to our constituents.

We're fighting an enemy that is far different than any we have got before. It's a nontraditional kind of war, and I think we need to step back, recalibrate how we go about protecting our borders and protecting our people, and resetting our position in the world.

There is nothing unbiblical about building a wall and protecting citizens.

We are a nation of borders and - I mean, that is one of the main things that the federal government is in charge with, and that is protecting the citizens of the United States and our whole nation.

What built America's called the American system, from Hamilton to Polk to Henry Clay to Lincoln to the Roosevelts. A system of protection of our manufacturing, financial system that lends to manufacturers, OK, and the control of our borders.

There must be protection of the external borders.

We will look at the entire immigration question from the protection of outer borders through the asylum procedures to integration, in particular its efficacy.

There is a paradoxical feature of pandemics: even though they have come to be named for specific locations, they are decidedly not contained by borders.

The modern hero is the outsider. His experience is rootless. He can go anywhere. He belongs nowhere. Being alien to nothing, he ends up being alienated from any type of community based on common tastes and interests. The borders of his country are the sides of his skull.

Kastellorizo is where Europe ends and Asia begins, and its history is fascinating.

What I'm in favor of is making sure we have security for our country and we can control access to our country.

Marco Rubio continues to this day to be in favor of open borders.

Try to think for your own why the Russians and the Chinese do not like the idea that whoever takes aggressive steps to keep order within his sovereign borders should not accept others to intervene physically.

Nearly 11 million undocumented immigrants currently live within our borders. That's 11 million people living in the shadows whom we know next to nothing about.