26 Quotes by Kirstjen Nielsen

People think of border security in very different ways, but to me, it's very simple: border security is national security.

Border security is the most basic and necessary responsibility of a sovereign nation.

Asylum is for people fleeing persecution, not those searching for a better job. Yet our broken system - with its debilitating court rulings, a crushing backlog, and gaping loopholes - allows illegal migrants to get into our country anyway and for whatever reason they want. This gaming of the system is unacceptable.

Congress makes immigration law. It's that simple. That is how our system works.

We need to fund our troops. We need to protect them. We need to increase homeland security. These are vital national security interest we need to fund.

What we've done as a country is, we've said we owe it to our citizens to know who is traveling here and if they intend to do us harm.

If you are a DACA that's compliant with your registration, meaning you haven't committed a crime, you, in fact, are registered, you're not priority of enforcement for ICE should the program end.

I would hate for anybody not to abide by alert warnings coming from government systems.

I took an oath when I became secretary of homeland security to defend and support the Constitution.