It's not just the southern border: Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker says it's "legitimate" to discuss building a wall separating the United States from Canada, as well.
The Republican presidential contender said the idea of a northern border has come up while he has campaigned in New Hampshire.
In an interview for NBC's "Meet the Press" available online, Walker said his tough talk to securing the borders and enforcing U.S. laws extends to the 5,525-mile Canadian border as well.
It's a shift from most campaign-trail rhetoric, which has focused on the United States' border with Mexico, where millions undocumented immigrants have entered the country.
"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. So that is a legitimate issue for us to look at."
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Terrorist attacks have been plotted in Canada -- including the so-called "Millennium plot," a foiled 2000 plan in which an Algerian national planned to cross into the United States from Canada and bomb the Los Angeles International Airport.
Walker has focused his immigration remarks on enforcing U.S. laws already on the books in recent weeks.
He ran into trouble two weeks ago after GOP front-runner Donald Trump proposed repealing the Fourteenth Amendment's mandate that children born in the United States automatically become citizens, regardless of their parents' legal status.
Walker first said he favored Trump's idea of repealing birthright citizenship. He backed off that stance days later, telling a reporter that he hasn't taken a position. And then last Sunday, he said that he isn't advocating any changes to laws on the books -- including the Fourteenth Amendment.
Despite taking three different positions in the course of a week, Walker insisted Sunday on NBC, his stance has been consistent.
#2 Re: Scott Walker: U.S.-Canada wall a 'legitimate' idea
Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2015 8:47 pm
by LadyTevar
#3 Re: Scott Walker: U.S.-Canada wall a 'legitimate' idea
Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2015 4:56 pm
by Batman
Is there a mandatory intelligence test for US politicians? As in your IQ is above 85 you can't have the job?
#4 Re: Scott Walker: U.S.-Canada wall a 'legitimate' idea
Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2015 10:31 pm
by Josh
Some days I think so.
That or every Republican candidate is balls-deep in the wall and fence industry.
I for one am glad that somebody is watching our northern frontier against the incursions of manners, civility, and competent efficiency. Fuck knows what kind of havoc the freezerbacks would get up to if we just let them come across willy-nilly.
#5 Re: Scott Walker: U.S.-Canada wall a 'legitimate' idea
Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2015 4:10 pm
by General Havoc
It's a year and more before the election. Fringe candidates like this can't even get anyone to look at them without saying inane, stupid shit like this. This is the entertainment part of the election cycle, not actual policy-to-come. It happens every cycle.
#6 Re: Scott Walker: U.S.-Canada wall a 'legitimate' idea
Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2015 4:53 pm
by Josh
No Havoc, the world is ending and the sky is falling. Why just the other day I saw a cat and a dog brazenly living together in defiance of all natural law.
#7 Re: Scott Walker: U.S.-Canada wall a 'legitimate' idea
Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2015 2:31 am
by Norseman
Josh wrote:No Havoc, the world is ending and the sky is falling. Why just the other day I saw a cat and a dog brazenly living together in defiance of all natural law.
It is true! I have video evidence!
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#8 Re: Scott Walker: U.S.-Canada wall a 'legitimate' idea
Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2015 7:55 am
by Josh
PUT A FUCKING NSFW TAG ON THAT FILTH!
#9 Re: Scott Walker: U.S.-Canada wall a 'legitimate' idea
Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2015 5:50 pm
by Batman
How is that NSFW? Unless that's been redefined to mean 'not satisfactorily fucking weird', I never pay attention to those things.
#10 Re: Scott Walker: U.S.-Canada wall a 'legitimate' idea
Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2015 5:57 pm
by Lys
Batman wrote:How is that NSFW? Unless that's been redefined to mean 'not satisfactorily fucking weird', I never pay attention to those things.
#11 Re: Scott Walker: U.S.-Canada wall a 'legitimate' idea
Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2015 6:53 pm
by Batman
I'm the man with officially no sense of humour.
#12 Re: Scott Walker: U.S.-Canada wall a 'legitimate' idea
Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2015 11:44 am
by Steve
BATS! PUT SPOILERS ON THAT! AAAAAAAAAAARGH!
YOU JUST SPOILED THE LAST DISCWORLD BOOK FOR ME YOU.... *sputters in inarticulate rage*
.....unless you're lying. I hope you're lying.
#13 Re: Scott Walker: U.S.-Canada wall a 'legitimate' idea
Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2015 3:39 pm
by Batman
Steve wrote:BATS! PUT SPOILERS ON THAT! AAAAAAAAAAARGH!
What would be the point? You obviously already read my post. And how can I be spoiling? I've had the book since monday, surely you lot got it before me?
.....unless you're lying. I hope you're lying.
Read the book and find out.
#14 Re: Scott Walker: U.S.-Canada wall a 'legitimate' idea
Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2015 10:56 pm
by Steve
Yeah, Bats, not everyone has the money to go rushing to a bookstore to buy a new book fresh off the shelf. Or even to buy a kindle copy online.
And as for telling you to put spoilers, obviously that's what you should have done in the first damn place. Why the hell were you even commenting about the book in a thread about an idiot politician?
#15 Re: Scott Walker: U.S.-Canada wall a 'legitimate' idea
Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2015 12:03 am
by rhoenix
This thread is magical.
#16 Re: Scott Walker: U.S.-Canada wall a 'legitimate' idea
Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2015 5:13 pm
by Batman
Haven't set foot in a bookstore in eons-I preordered on Amazon-but Steve is right this was the wrong place to air those particular grievances.
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