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Walker says wall on Canadian border worth reviewing
AP ^ | August 30th, 2015 | Unattributed

Posted on 08/30/2015 12:27:24 PM PDT by Mariner

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Scott Walker says that building a wall along the country's norther border with Canada is a legitimate issue that merits further review.

Republican candidates have generally taken a get-tough approach on deterring illegal immigration, but they usually focus on the border with Mexico.

The Wisconsin governor was asked whether he wanted to build a wall on the northern border, too, during an interview Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press."

Walker says law enforcement officials in New Hampshire brought up the topic of building a wall along the U.S.-Canadian border during a recent town hall meeting. He says they raised some legitimate concerns, so it's a "legitimate issue for us to look at."

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To: Mariner

No doubt the wall on the east and west coast needs to be reviewed as well.


61 posted on 08/30/2015 1:08:55 PM PDT by moehoward
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To: Lopeover

Well,,, Canada is in an election right now, and their MSM means to take out Conservative Harper to replace with Progressive Trudeau, or Communist Mulcair.

Canadians need Conservative help now.


62 posted on 08/30/2015 1:09:07 PM PDT by Melinator (my 2 cents)
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To: datura
Like I said, I live just south of the BC border. Try to cross the border away from a checkpoint here.I dare you.

There's a town on the Vermont/Quebec border that I've vised several times.Once,I thought I had accidentally crossed into Canada by a few feet and then back into the US.Being a bit afraid I went to a nearby official US border crossing and reported what happened.The border official said that it was OK and that they'd straighten it out with their Canadian counterparts.He said that there were all sorts of sensors and cameras in that area...on both sides of the border.I wonder if that could be true elsewhere along the border.

63 posted on 08/30/2015 1:09:07 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Obamanomics:Trickle Up Poverty)
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To: Mariner

A lot of criminal elements shifted to trafficking drugs into the US through Canada for this very reason. It’s not as in the spotlight.

That being said, I don’t think that dealing with such is even close to the top of the priority list.


64 posted on 08/30/2015 1:14:59 PM PDT by Shadow44
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To: Sacajaweau
The Border patrol nabbed him in 20 seconds. Scared the sh** out of him.

Driving south down I-91 in Vermont I've seen border patrol cars 30 miles south of the border.Surprising to be sure.

65 posted on 08/30/2015 1:15:21 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Obamanomics:Trickle Up Poverty)
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To: ichabod1

I agree...I think having an open border that long can be asking for trouble. It’s worth a look, at least.


66 posted on 08/30/2015 1:16:14 PM PDT by BobL (REPUBLICANS - Fight for the WHITE VOTE...and you will win (see my 'profile' page))
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To: Mariner

The Northern Wall would be put in place to keep the illegal aliens that are in the United States from Migrating to Canada.


67 posted on 08/30/2015 1:18:51 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (Trump - because sometimes you need a big @$$hole to eliminate all the cr@p.)
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To: rabidralph

Really Wisconsin shares a border with Canada? come now I live in the UP of Michigan, and there is lake Superior to my north and Minnesota borders nearby but no shared border with Wisconsin and Canada that I know of. Periodically there are people trying to sneak through Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario Canada crossing the International Bridge into Sault Sainte Marie, MI USA.


68 posted on 08/30/2015 1:19:35 PM PDT by hondact200 (Donald Trump is No Ronald Reagan)
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To: Melinator

Trudeau? Canada doesn’t have term limits for the grand poobah?


69 posted on 08/30/2015 1:20:48 PM PDT by Lopeover (2016 Election is about allegiance to the United States)
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To: Sacajaweau
"So let Canada build the wall."

Oh I'm sure they'll be stepping up their border enforcement once the self-deportations start. There'll be something along the line of 3 or 4 million Illegals trying to make their way north.

70 posted on 08/30/2015 1:23:06 PM PDT by moehoward
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To: Gay State Conservative
A wall to the north? I don’t see the need.

It's too late to stop Justin Bieber.

71 posted on 08/30/2015 1:23:44 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: LS

I shot a man named Reno just to watch him die.

If that happened, it’d be . . . Almost Paradise?


72 posted on 08/30/2015 1:24:31 PM PDT by Rastus
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To: Starstruck
Terrorist have used that border to enter the US.

And their names are?

73 posted on 08/30/2015 1:26:21 PM PDT by freeandfreezing
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To: Drew68
It's too late to stop Justin Bieber.

And there's no *need* to stop Celine Dion (pre-surgery) or Shania Twain.

74 posted on 08/30/2015 1:27:05 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Obamanomics:Trickle Up Poverty)
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To: datura
The terrorists who crossed here were caught.

The ones that were caught were caught.

75 posted on 08/30/2015 1:27:38 PM PDT by Starstruck (I'm usually sarcastic. Deal with it.)
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To: Mariner

Don’t build the wall. I know a leftist who has promised to move to Canada if Donald Trump is elected President. And I want him to go.


76 posted on 08/30/2015 1:29:31 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (1 of 172)
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To: Gay State Conservative
Driving south down I-91 in Vermont I've seen border patrol cars 30 miles south of the border.Surprising to be sure.

They actually operate a checkpoint on I-91 south of White River Junction sometimes, the logic of which is hard to fathom.

77 posted on 08/30/2015 1:29:46 PM PDT by freeandfreezing
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To: Mariner

What a stupid, nonsensical reply.


78 posted on 08/30/2015 1:30:16 PM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: Mariner

The biggest problem is not the land borders (although the Canadian border, while not letting a huge number of people through, has a large and dangerous Muslim population that has gotten across the border...although generally through our careless border crossings).

The biggest problem is the people who fly to the US and arrive legally (as tourists or students) and then simply disappear. And then, like Obama’s auntie, even get on welfare and have us paying for them for the rest of their lives.

China is the leader in this, and in fact, in the last couple of years, there have been way more Chinese immigrants, legal or illegal, than Mexican immigrants. Indians are pretty close behind. And then there are the huge numbers of Muslims Obama is bringing in, not only from the ME and Africa, but Chechens such as the brothers Tsarnaev and their ugly relatives, who were all unprosecuted visa-overstayers.

That’s where the true immigration crisis lies. But Trump is too much of a demagogic coward to take that on. It’s easier to attack wetbacks (who have gotten through in such scanty numbers that California growers couldn’t find anybody to do the harvests this year and are busy automating) than to confront Obama and his insane immigration “policies.”


79 posted on 08/30/2015 1:31:50 PM PDT by livius
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To: LS

Gotta keep Mark Steyn out!


80 posted on 08/30/2015 1:32:49 PM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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