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There's places where a secure fence will work, and that strategic type fencing will work. But the idea that people can easily just stand up and say 'let's just build a fence' and be done with it and wipe our hands, and it's going to secure the border, that's not reality.

We need to know who's in the United States. We need to know everyone who's in the United States that comes in here from a foreign country. And we have to separate the ones who are dangerous from the ones who aren't. To accomplish that, we need a fence. We need a technological fence. We need a border patrol.

And this is one of the major questions of our lives: how we keep boundaries, what permission we have to cross boundaries, and how we do so.

We need to be more careful, but more compassionate. We must strike, not deal with terrorists, but to broaden our understanding of the world outside our borders.

When you look at it that way, you can see how absurd it is that we individualize ourselves with our fences and hoarded possessions.

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.

Fences work and the walls work and separations work. They afford to any nation the delay of entry.

If terrorists aren't limited by borders and boundaries, we can't be, either.

I'm not white-picket-fence perfect.

We have the responsibility to protect our people and that's why we're building this fence. We've suffered from 19,000 terrorist attacks during the last three years.