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You get enough people agreeing in consciousness that Mexico is a dangerous place, and that dangerous thought will make it so.

But last year there were 540,000 people, roughly, detained coming across the border illegally. Forty-five thousand of them came from countries other than Mexico, demonstrating the fact that Mexico itself now is a pathway into the United States for people all around the world, and we don't know what their intentions are.

In terms of the espionage, this is something I have talked to President Obama about. We don't want it to mar the relationship between Mexico and the United States. But it is unacceptable for a country to practice such espionage, especially if there is a good relationship with the other country.

One of the chapters outlined in my book talks about the Iranian influence with Venezuela, these terror flights that go back and forth that we don't manifests on, and then nuclear material smuggled across our unsecure southwest border from Mexico into the United States.

I've always known that my father's father and grandfather and grandmother were from Mexico. I've never denied it. I've always said it.

The comment that I've made is that if unaccompanied minors can cross the border, then certainly trained terrorists probably can, too.

Well, you know, the violence is mostly in Mexico itself, at least the violence that people are worried about. And so we want to make sure that violence does not spill over into our communities that are along the border.

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.

We have terrorists coming into the country both through our Northern and Southern borders.

Mexico and the U.S. are bound not only because of the common border, but by a shared culture and history.