"When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're not sending you. They're not sending you. They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists, and some, I assume, are good people. But I speak to border guards and they tell us what we're getting. And it only makes common sense. It only makes common sense. They're sending us not the right people. It's coming from more than Mexico. It's coming from all over South and Latin America. And it's coming probably - probably - from the Middle East. But we don't know because we have no protection, and we have no competence. We don't know what's happening. And it's got to stop. And it's got to stop fast."

Tough words, certainly. But he's largely accurate. Not all, or even most, but some who cross the border, from various continents, are criminals (including drug traffickers and smugglers widely reported to rape innocent women on the journey) or go on to commit crimes once here, and, undeniably, it's the responsibility of the federal government to stem illegal border crossings in order to protect the populace from additional crime.