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It's real. I think it's getting realer, so to speak.
– Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly
Found on CNN 6 years ago
You can't pick and choose the laws that you obey, and I can't pick and choose the laws that we're by law required to enforce. ... We had a court order to remove her and we did.
– Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly
Found on CNN 6 years ago
All crime is terrible, but these victims are unique — and often too ignored, they are casualties of crimes that should never have taken place — because the people who victimized them often times should not have been in the country in the first place.
– Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
The President told me to do two things.
– Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly
Found on CNN 6 years ago
My message -- really, my plea -- and I've said this a number of times both before the camera as well as in hearings and virtually every single office call I have with members of Congress : Solve the problem legislatively, in the meantime, these people are caught between the law.
– Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly
Found on CNN 6 years ago
State of the Union, the President told me to do two things.
– Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly
Found on CNN 6 years ago
Yes, under the Obama administration they turned back a large number of individuals, but that's because it was a very open border almost.
– Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly
Found on CNN 6 years ago
This is all about securing and safeguarding the southwest border but at the same time -- and this is critical -- making sure the free flow of legal movement and people and commercial interest north and south happen. And we're dedicated to that. yes, under the Obama administration they turned back a large number of individuals, but that's because it was a very open border almost.
– Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly
Found on CNN 6 years ago
The future we worry about every single day is how do we spot and stop them as they flow out, bent on continuing the global jihad by taking the fight to innocent people?
– Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly
Found on CNN 6 years ago
I was involved in all of the discussions in the situation room with the President and he was very open to anyone at the table talking, giving their ideas, there was give and take, and he took all of that in and made in my opinion -- I don't think he'd mind my saying this -- made exactly the right decision.
– Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly
Found on CNN 6 years ago
If you are a terrorist with an Internet connection, like the one on your ever-present cellphone, you can recruit new soldiers, plan attacks and upload a video calling for jihad with just a few clicks, and thanks to new and ever improving and proliferating encryption and secure communication techniques, it'll be a lot harder to find you and stop you before you take innocent lives.
– Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly
Found on CNN 6 years ago
The threat to our nation and our American way of life has not diminished, in fact, the threat has metastasized and decentralized, and the risk is as threatening today as it was that September morning almost 16 years ago.
– Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly
Found on CNN 6 years ago
We have not picked up -- I don't care what you read or what people say -- we have not in my time picked up someone who is covered by DACA.
– Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly
Found on CNN 6 years ago
I'm staying up late at night every night to try to prevent that from happening. So that's what keeps me ... awake at night.
– Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
If lawmakers do not like the laws that we enforce, that we are charged to enforce, that we are sworn to enforce, then they should have the courage and the skill to change those laws. Otherwise, they should shut up and support the men and women on the front lines.
– Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
I said it a lot back then, and I'm trying to do something about it now, that if there is -- when there is another terrorist attack in our country, if it comes from outside the country, up until 90 days ago, I wouldsay that that individual or individuals … get into the United States through the southwest border.
– Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
[Employees] are often ridiculed and insulted by public officials and frequently convicted in the court of public opinion on unfounded allegations testified to by street lawyers and street spokespersons, if lawmakers do not like the laws that we enforce, that we are charged to enforce, that we are sworn to enforce, then they should have the courage and the skill to change those laws. Otherwise, they should shut up and support the men and women on the front lines.
– Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
The dramatic reduction is evident across the southwest border, ... These numbers are lower because we've shown that we're serious about border security and enforcing our immigration laws.
– Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
There are a huge number, as you know, of illegal aliens or undocumented individuals that have to be dealt with in one way or another.
– Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
It is unlikely that we will build a wall, a physical barrier, from sea to shining sea.
– Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly
Found on CNN 6 years ago
The President has told me, 'Kelly, go do it. We need to protect the Southern border in any way that makes sense,' the President knows that I'm looking at variations on the theme, and I have no doubt that when I go back to him and say, 'Wall makes sense here, high-tech fencing makes sense over here, technology makes sense over here,' I have no doubt he'll tell me to go do it.
– Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly
Found on CNN 6 years ago
It's a real threat. We know on any given day, there are dozens of cells that are talking about aviation, and you just watch them over time and see if they develop and they go from talking to actually doing something. So there's a real threat all the time.
– Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly
Found on CNN 6 years ago
It's real. I think it's getting realer, so to speak, we may take measures in the not-too-distant future to expand the number of airports.
– Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly
Found on CNN 6 years ago
We're not going to be able to build a wall everywhere all at once.
– Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly
Found on CNN 6 years ago
I'd like to see we'd be well underway in two years, this is going to take some time, but there's places I think we can right away get at this problem.
– Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly
Found on CNN 6 years ago
We will remain vigilant to respond to any changes in these trends, as numbers of illegal crossings typically increase between March and May, however, the early results show that enforcement matters, deterrence matters, and that comprehensive immigration enforcement can make an impact.
– Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
The drop in apprehensions shows a marked change in trends, since the administration’s implementation of executive orders to enforce immigration laws, apprehensions and inadmissible activity is trending toward the lowest monthly total in at least the last five years.
– Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
We have tremendous experience of dealing with unaccompanied minors, we turn them over to (Health and Human Services) and they do a very, very good job of putting them in foster care or linking them up with parents or family members in the United States.
– Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly
Found on CNN 6 years ago
The fact remains that we are not immune to terrorist threats and that our enemies often use our own freedoms and generosity against us, we cannot risk the prospect of malevolent actors using our immigration system to take American lives.
– Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly
Found on CNN 6 years ago
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