Our people come to the United States looking for a better future. It would be hard being afraid to go to work because you think you are going to get jail time just for trying to make a living.

The United States is a country where people see the future as better and see themselves as making a better future for themselves.

[He said that nobody likes the idea of people dying at the border,] but if the United States would gear up the political will to enforce its laws, it would actually be an act of compassion, ... The border is something the United States can certainly control. If we caught them, they wouldn't be losing their lives.

ideologies of Old Europe have condemned hundreds of millions of people to the economic slow track while the United States has accelerated into the distance, with India and China coming up on the rails.

I think the United States has a huge capacity but on the front end they don't want people to be waiting and suffering while the help arrives.

Well, a lot of people would say it's ridiculous to imagine the United States would either start something or stage something but - gee whiz! - Remember the Gulf of Tonkin!