Posted on 08/30/2015 7:28:55 PM PDT by z taxman
For all the talk about a southern border wall (ahem, Mr. Trump), Scott Walker has an additional concern: Canada.
Given his support for building a U.S.-Mexico border wall to protect against terrorist threats, the Wisconsin governor was asked on NBC’s Meet the Press by host Chuck Todd if he wanted to build a northern border wall.
Walker, a Republican candidate for president, said a U.S.-Canadian border “is a legitimate issue for us to look at.”
“Some people have asked us about that in New Hampshire,” Walker said. “They raised some very legitimate concerns, including some law enforcement folks that brought that up to me at one of our town hall meetings about a week and a half ago.”
As The Daily Beast pointed out last year, many GOP lawmakers had cited the threat of Islamic terrorists coming into the country through Mexico as reason to build a southern fence—despite little evidence of such a threat.
Walker has repeatedly echoed those southernly concerns, supporting construction of a wall like Israel’s “500-mile fence” — which, at 430 miles long, is a bit of a misnomer.
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yes, by all means, let’s build Walker’s Wall to stop those millions of Canooks that keep flooding into the U.S.
All he said was: ‘U.S.-Canadian border “is a legitimate issue for us to look at.”’ Nothing wrong with that.
And which border did the 9/11 terrorists cross?
All the Trump lovers here would be for the idea or at least give him a pass if it was Trump who said it.
Yup, Trump can do NO WRONG, according to the group-think Trump supporters.
Trump supported single payer insurance, in the last debate; threatens to run third party, which helps the Dems; did not want a primary election in NY State, when he was considering a run in the NY State governor’s race, and so it goes.
ANYTHING Trump does - NO PROBLEM.
Mention that stuff and you’ll get the tried but true excuse ‘that was years ago!’
Trumps little transformation didn’t really hit the ground until 2011 when a year after he saw the tea party wave while he was considering running for Prez. in 2012. He\s so transparently obvious and such a damn fake.
A friend wanted to know what I think of Trump.
I said he’s telling me what I want to hear, BUT I DON’T TRUST HIM!
Later I thought, he’s not always telling me what I want to hear either - the REAL Donald Trump sometimes comes out.
Are 30 million Canadians invading America and suckng the taxpayer dry?30 million might be close to the entire population.
I think more people live in California than Canada.
Afraid that is a myth. They were here already legally.
Sneaking Molson across the border must stop.
this is why before trump every candidate talked in sound bites. This headline has gotten more coverage than his Rain Down on ISIS statement. The GOLP candidates can’t get fair coverage
Canada Ping!
Why build a wall?
Its cheaper to send the Canucks their more than usual lend lease military equipment so they can use more than the current sling shots provided Canada’s military by Canada’s idiotic Liberals and NDP village idjits.( Canada has 23 million population but a total standing armed force of 100, 000. And they know how to die in both French and English, let’s get our priorities straight here! Sarc.)
A wall just would not work, send CANADA GUNS!
“.... Canada might need to build a wall to keep illegal Mexicans from crossing through America in to Canada”....
If the illegals want to pass through this country, we could build a few high speed railroads to get them there much faster than having the illegally walk through here.... Nah, I respect our neighbors to the north too much to dump the illegals on them.
Pretty sure he meant security on the northern border was a legitimate issue, not that he supports building a wall across the entire g*d damn length of it.
Anyway, the Wildlings and White Walkers are coming from Mexico.
From what I've observed while living in New Hampshire these recent decades, there are very few New Hampshire citizens who would dare to point to a dark-skinned Middle-East terrorist—even if they'd seen them preparing a truck bomb outside a Trump speaking venue! I can't believe what's happened to this state. :(
That Canada has massively allowed Islamic "immigrants" should be alarming to US border security. Walker is correct to look at this issue—which is all that he said.
I smell toast
I had high hopes for Walker.
Nope, he just off’ed himself.
Yeh LOL! Me too.
all those damn Canadians in prison here in the States.
No surprise from a doofus who quit Marquette with a 2.6 GPA
I think that it’s more like slick reporter suckers typical politician
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