Quotes About Borders

The money came in bundles tied with elastic bands, in exchange for the promise of a lorry ride across the border. In many cases, people were dumped off before they even reached the border, and so they were back to square one, back in Turkey, back in Ali's Café, but this time without money. It was groundhog day, a Sisyphean sentence – to endlessly go up and down the airless corridor that never changed, though everything else changed. And never to arrive.

Abolishing ICE means abandoning our borders and leaving them open to anyone. That's just irresponsible and certainly not in the best interest of the American people and their security.

No border that touches Israel is always secure.

Israel sees the world just beyond its borders collapsing.

What I am trying to say to Israel is, 'Listen, borders is something that we need, and hopefully, peace is something that we need.'

The Golan Heights is an area in the north of the State of Israel that has no part in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The Israelis would like to live in peace within their borders; the Arabs would like to kill them all.

So the possibility of a basic bargain on immigration reform has existed for some time. In a trade, the government would undertake serious enforcement measures to control its borders, in return for an agreement to give undocumented aliens without criminal records a path toward citizenship.10 This bargain might actually receive majority support among the American public, but hard-core immigration opponents are dead set against any form of "amnesty

But the people of Arizona, the people of America, have been promised that our borders would be secured for years and years and years, with it not happening. And I don't believe the people of America, certainly not the people of Arizona, are ready to discuss anything other at this point in time other than securing our borders.

The people who illegally cross into the country are from countries that have very close ties to al Qaeda, whether it's Yemen or Afghanistan, Pakistan, China. It is an absolute national disgrace.

However, we still have the problem of free travel and movement, since the Travel Documents issued by UNMIK as the substitute to passports, are not fully recognized yet by all countries.

The idea of traveling in Africa for me is based on going by road or train or bus or whatever and crossing borders. You can't travel easily or at all through some countries.

Should the U.S. grant preferential treatment on trade to an egregious human rights violator that allows human traffickers to operate unencumbered within its borders? The obvious answer would seem to be 'No.'

As an immigrant, I am grateful for the tremendous opportunities that this great nation has afforded me and my family. I am also aware of the ongoing challenges that immigrants confront, and understand that respecting law and borders is essential for keeping America strong.

Declaration of Independence, mankind was divided into nations by ethnicities and tribes.

Let borders become sunlight so we traverse this Earth as one nation and drive the darkness out.

The word nobody wants to use, but you see if you are here illegally, that's the punishment, deportation.

I think that people should come to Australia through the front door, not through the back door. If people want a migration outcome, they should go through the migration channels.

We can agree that globalism isn't democratic—without becoming isolationists. We can agree that a nation is not a nation unless it can enforce its borders—without being racist. We can agree that cultural norms such as two-parent families and a work ethic play a role in lifting people out of poverty—without being bigoted.

To have a live choir there on the stage and then these singers from different countries signing with us in real time through Skype, it's as if there aren't borders anymore.

Borders had lousy management and made bad corporate decisions, so its fate is less like a terrible accident than a slow-motion slide into a ditch, but it's hard to be happy about a bookseller's demise.

I think there is something about countries and nations that is hard to define. And, in fact, that's probably why we create such massive boundaries - because it's so slippery where they begin and where they end.

The American people overwhelmingly want to see smart policy that secures our families, our borders, and our economy.

The vice president of the National Border Patrol Council Local 3307 said, "Until we start mandatory detentions, mandatory removals, I don't think anything is going to change. As a matter of fact, I think it's going to get worse."11