Walker: Build a US-Canada wall too! Hey why not?

[josieposy]

BLAME CANADA!

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/30/scott-walker-canada-border-wall-immigration-terrorists



Scott Walker says building Canada border wall is a 'legitimate issue'



The Republican presidential candidate Scott Walker said on Sunday that building a wall on the US northern border with Canada was “a legitimate issue for us to look at”.

Asked in an interview on NBC if he wanted to build a wall on the Canadian border, the Wisconsin governor cited his experience talking to voters “including some law enforcement folks” in New Hampshire, an early voting state in the Republican primaries. Such people, he said, were concerned about terrorists potentially crossing over from Canada.

“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,” Walker said. “So that is a legitimate issue for us to look at.”

In recent months, with the rise of Donald Trump in polls concerning the Republican presidential field, political debate in the US has focused on illegal immigration and the desirability and feasibility of building a wall on the southern border, with Mexico.

However, concerns about the border with Canada, a country that has witnessed two attacks by Islamist terrorists in the past year, have so far gone unaddressed.

Immigration and border security remains a live issue in the Republican primary. Another candidate trailing Trump in the polls, New Jersey governor Chris Christie, on Saturday told an audience in New Hampshire he would ask the chief executive of FedEx to devise a system to track illegal immigrants like packages.

Walker has come under scrutiny on immigration, recently for holding apparently shifting positions on whether to amend the constitution in order to end birthright citizenship. On Sunday, he repeatedly said that was not an issue he considered a priority.
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“Whether it’s talking about the 14th amendment or anything else, until we secure the border and enforce the laws, we shouldn’t be talking about any other issue out there,” he said.

Walker did not only address border security and immigration. He also discussed issues including the incarceration rate for African Americans in Wisconsin, which is the highest in the nation, and the state’s last place in rankings concerning opportunity for African American children.

Walker dodged any blame for such statistics, pointing a finger instead at politicians in Wisconsin’s largest city.

“Part of it is, I think, some of the poor policies in the city of Milwaukee,” he said.

Walker went on to tout his efforts in pushing charter schools and fighting against “union control” in Milwaukee.

[darnkatz]

[Velar Fricative]

I expected this to be said by someone at some point during this primary season.

[mrsukyankee]

[gretchenindisguise]

And again I say, "game of thrones, is that you?"

[gibbinator]

Lol, he's just pretending it's about potential terrorists. Really the wall is to trap in all those "moving to Canada" citizens.

[summer]

Bless his heart

[ttt]

Well if it keeps out the next Ted Cruz, it will be well worth the expense.

[greeneggs]

Aug 30, 2015 11:38:32 GMT -5 josieposy said:

BLAME CANADA!

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/30/scott-walker-canada-border-wall-immigration-terrorists


Immigration and border security remains a live issue in the Republican primary. Another candidate trailing Trump in the polls, New Jersey governor Chris Christie, on Saturday told an audience in New Hampshire he would ask the chief executive of FedEx to devise a system to track illegal immigrants like packages.

What?  How exactly would this even be possible?

[LeggsBenedict]

I'm not entirely sure that this picture is relevant, but I feel the need to share it.

[josieposy]

Aug 30, 2015 15:48:03 GMT -5 greeneggs said:

Aug 30, 2015 11:38:32 GMT -5 josieposy said:

BLAME CANADA!

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/30/scott-walker-canada-border-wall-immigration-terrorists


Immigration and border security remains a live issue in the Republican primary. Another candidate trailing Trump in the polls, New Jersey governor Chris Christie, on Saturday told an audience in New Hampshire he would ask the chief executive of FedEx to devise a system to track illegal immigrants like packages.

What?  How exactly would this even be possible?

Oh it's really easy. They'll know exactly where everyone is except for the week leading up to Christmas.

[ESF]

I saw the interview. It was painful to watch.

Also, please be seeing the part in the article where it says Chris Christie wants to hire Fedex to track immigrants like packages. Christ on a motherfucking cracker, do I hate all these jerks.

Eta I see greeneggs is on it already.

[Deleted]

Aug 30, 2015 12:11:15 GMT -5 gibbinator said:

Lol, he's just pretending it's about potential terrorists. Really the wall is to trap in all those "moving to Canada" citizens.

This was exactly my thoughts.
If any of those crazy Republicans win, none of us will be finding a way through your fence.

[ttt]

Aug 30, 2015 16:48:29 GMT -5 ESF said:

I saw the interview. It was painful to watch.

Also, please be seeing the part in the article where it says Chris Christie wants to hire Fedex to track immigrants like packages. Christ on a motherfucking cracker, do I hate all these jerks.

Eta I see greeneggs is on it already.

IMMIGRANT AT DESTINATION SORT FACILITY
IMMIGRANT ON FEDEX VEHICLE FOR DELIVERY
EXCEPTION - IMMIGRANT CANNOT BE DELIVERED TO THIS ADDRESS
IMMIGRANT MUST BE PICKED UP AT FEDEX FACILITY LOCATED 72 MILES FROM YOUR HOUSE, OPEN MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY, BETWEEN THE HOURS OF 9 AM AND 11 AM. 

[One Girl In All The World]

[lg28]

Please build a wall! Perhaps it can keep the red-neck, homophobic, gun-toting Walker voters out of Canada.

[lg28]

In all seriousness, I wonder what it would actually cost to build a wall that long. Trillions??