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These are our borders, and we have to secure our borders.

Clearly, border security has been the top domestic issue of the year, and rightly so. Securing our borders is an essential aspect of our national security.

We need to make sure we have secure borders.

Border security is a complex issue and will remain a top priority during the 2007 legislative year. As Congress works to fix this problem, I will continue to push for strong measures that beef up security at our borders.

There is no question that we must do more to secure our borders - but how we go about securing them is also important.

We need to secure our southern border. Clearly, the southern border is now a nexus between immigration and national security. It's a sieve.

I'm on record saying nothing about immigration until we secure the borders. The borders are not secure.

The fact of the matter is, is that we need our borders secured. Certainly, we realize that there's going to have to be some kind of immigration reform, but I don't believe any of that's going to move forward until our border is secured.

We must safely secure our border by investing in more law enforcement and technology, and receiving cooperation from the Mexican government.

If terrorists are already on our southern border, a national-security failure has already occurred.