Wayne Cornelius Quotes (11 Quotes)

It's a rational way to reduce your risk. Most of them are getting caught at least once in the San Diego sector, but it is a more attractive option for many. The smugglers have obviously made that calculation too, that people are more willing to be smuggled through the San Diego sector than through the Arizona desert.

It's unfortunate, because people who were against the absentee ballot in the first place will use this to say there isn't an adequate constituency for it in the immigrant community. They will use this as an argument for not improving the process to make it more user-friendly.

You can't legislate away the demand that this country has for immigrant workers. Too many businesses in too many industries have become dependent on this source of labor.

How many Americans would ever vote if they had to go in person to some government office, obtain an application, fill it out, go to a post office and return it by registered mail

The process that was devised for casting a ballot was simply too cumbersome, too time-consuming, and involved dealing with too many government agencies to make it a usable process.

Vigilante groups are bit players in the current immigration debate.

The overwhelming majority would go one way or another.

At most, would-be migrants and the people-smugglers who assist them find these groups to be a fleeting obstacle that they can easily detour around.

Local politicians are catering to the conservative Republicans in the electorate, who are far more likely to support restrictive immigration policies than Democrats, independents, or the general public.

We've made it much more costly and risky to come and go crossing the border, and because of that we make it more likely (undocumented immigrants) will spend a longer time in the U.S. and settle permanently here.

I think it's a virtual certainty that the low turnout this time around will be used by opponents to say this was a misbegotten project that never should have happened in the first place.