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We also need to strengthen the security of our borders and ports and strictly control immigration.

Going forward, as we work to strengthen our border in the interests of homeland security, we must also recognize the economic importance of immigration reform.

We need to make sure we have secure borders.

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

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.

The men and women at our borders, given adequate resources, are doing an excellent job of keeping us safe.

I think it's a fundamental responsibility of the federal government to enforce our nation's borders.

Thank God we're going to try to continue and effectively defend our frontiers with the Border Patrol, with the Customs Department, with the Coast Guard, with the Armed Forces.

Immigration is important. We're a nation of immigrants.

Once we secure our borders - and the federal government has not done a good job - then Congress, I believe, needs to take up the issue and look at how we try and identify those people that are here, that are national security risks to the United States.