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One of the specific powers and responsibilities of the federal government is to secure the borders. Property can be taken with due process of law and just compensation.

A key part of your sovereignty is the ability to control the influx and outflow of your people and is the ability to secure your border.

The very heart of being a sovereign nation is providing security of one's borders, of one's internal situation, and security against anyone attacking one's nation. That is the very heart of what I believe is sovereignty.

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

It's the federal government's job to secure the border.

National sovereignty is an obligation as well as an entitlement. A government that will not perform the role of a government forfeits the rights of a government.

Great countries need to secure their border for national security purposes, for economic purposes and for rule of law purposes.

To be called a sovereign nation, a nation has to be able to control its own borders. It is controlling your own destiny in a way, and we don't control our own borders.

A sovereignty is always presumed to act upon principles of justice, and if, from mistake or oversight, it does injury to a nation or an individual, it is always supposed to be ready and willing to repair it.

Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.