John Culberson Quotations

Give the sheriffs and our border patrol and law enforcement the money and troops they need to get out there and enforce law and order.

We have already spent more than enough to take care of the fundamentals.

Extremely violent and dangerous criminal gangs like MS-13 and drug smugglers are crossing our southern borders in growing numbers.

I'm going to vote in support of the president of the United States in keeping the troops in Iraq until the president and our military is convinced that the mission is complete.

The foreign national cannot be released in the United States but must be removed to the country from which they entered the U.S.

America's best defense against terrorists trying to sneak into our country is to trust the good hearts and the good sense of American citizens.

What was I elected for? ... This is a matter of core principle.

Federal authorities do not have the manpower or the resources to protect America's international borders

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

The sheriffs are completely outnumbered and outgunned. And we don't have enough border patrol agents

This is not the first time that Mexican authorities have handed over an Arab from a country with known Al Qaeda connections to a local sheriff across the border. FBI picks them up and disappears

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

The border sheriffs are locally elected. They're accountable. They know the territory and the people. And they can respond the most quickly to what is a real national security emergency, because the border is unprotected