A number of people who have supported me on the border fence in the U.S. have observed the fences in Israel and their effectiveness.
Duncan Hunter

A system of cameras and censors are used along the border and interior to help detect the movement of illegal immigrants crossing through the dense brush.
Timothy Murphy

Although Customs and Border Protection analyzes cargo and other information to target specific shipments for closer inspection, it still physically inspects only a small fraction of the containers under its purview.
Mike Fitzpatrick

Americans know as much about Canada as straight people do about gays. Americans arrive at the border with skis in July, and straight people think that being gay is just a phase. A very long phase.
Scott Thompson

And, of course, millions of us cross the border to work in US homes and gardens and factories and carpentry shops and restaurants, and if you go to a restaurant pretty much anywhere in the United States, the chances are that the dishes will be washed by a Mexican.
Alma Guillermoprieto

Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.
Lincoln Steffens

As a co-chair of the State's 2010 Olympics Task Force, I am working to make sure our border crossings are ready to handle the risks and benefits the Games will bring.
Rick Larsen

As the number of available jobs has decreased in border states like Texas, cities halfway across America have begun to see an influx of illegal immigrants in search of employment.
Spencer Bachus

Border security is a complex issue and will remain a top priority during the 2007 legislative year. As Congress works to fix this problem, I will continue to push for strong measures that beef up security at our borders.
Randy Neugebauer

By encouraging its citizens to violate our border, Mexico is pushing a tremendous welfare burden off of its shoulders and onto ours, while also benefiting from the significant sums of U.S. currency that these workers will eventually send back home to their families.
Spencer Bachus

Clearly, border security has been the top domestic issue of the year, and rightly so. Securing our borders is an essential aspect of our national security.
Randy Neugebauer

Either we're going to solve this by realistic negotiation or there will be blood on the border.
Tom Metzger

Eligible citizens from any State in the Union can serve in the Border Protection Corps of that State.
John Culberson

Emergency health care for illegal aliens along the southwestern border is already costing area hospitals $200 million a year, with perhaps another $100 million in extended care costs.
Gary Miller

Every town has become a border town and every State has become a border State.
Marsha Blackburn

Faith crosses every border and touches every heart in every nation.
George W. Bush

Fences would be a hindrance to terrorists should they decide to come across a land border between the U.S. and Mexico and to California.
Duncan Hunter

Finally, we need more Border Patrol agents. Although Congress has already tripled the number of Border Patrol agents since the late 1980s, more are still needed.
Ric Keller

Foreign nationals entering the United States illegally who are taken into custody by the Border Protection Corps or by State or local law enforcement authorities must be promptly delivered to a federal law enforcement authority.
John Culberson

Going forward, as we work to strengthen our border in the interests of homeland security, we must also recognize the economic importance of immigration reform.
Dave Reichert