Walker calls for Berlin style wall with Canada

[cindy25]

from twitter

Larry Sabato ‏@LarrySabato 4m4 minutes ago
Can't wait for Canada's party leaders to respond: Scott Walker one-ups Trump with call for border wall with our neighbor to the north. 1/2



I said Berlin Wall because there are no Canadians to keep out; the only purpose has to be to keep people in. back in the 60s we had a neighbor go to Canada to evade the LBJ draft. he paid $200 at the border, and was granted landed immigrant status in Canada. in the 1800s escaped slaves fled to Canada.

but the reverse has never been true.

[Dianne]

Yeah, Walker !! I've seen an influx of Canadian refugees swarming the border begging for welfare, free housing, free college, free medical care.... NOT . Walker about as looney as the other idiot "Bush".

[cindy25]

what is amazing is that Walker is a border state governor. the people of Wisconsin must go back and forth to Canada as much as those from Maine, NH, upstate NY, downstate MI, and Washington state.

[Dianne]

what is amazing is that Walker is a border state governor. the people of Wisconsin must go back and forth to Canada as much as those from Maine, NH, upstate NY, downstate MI, and Washington state.

He's an idiot. What a fight to pick when there is none. I'm trying to figure out how to get to Canada to open a bank account. Their currency is safe, their banking is safe, but you have to open a bank account there in person. Do I want to get a passport just to open a bank account in Canada? I've been thinking through this for months now. The Southern Border, however, I would die before I made it through the first checkpoint.

What a mental midget Scott Walker is.

[cindy25]

He's an idiot. What a fight to pick when there is none. I'm trying to figure out how to get to Canada to open a bank account. Their currency is safe, their banking is safe, but you have to open a bank account there in person. Do I want to get a passport just to open a bank account in Canada? I've been thinking through this for months now. The Southern Border, however, I would die before I made it through the first checkpoint.

What a mental midget Scott Walker is.

I doubt if they will even open a bank account for you, as foreign banks are so afraid of the US govt. now. and banks do not pay any interest anyway. you could cross the border with an enhanced driver's license (can you imagine pre-Bush it was verbal)

[RonPaulMall]

As bad a campaign as I think Rand has run, nothing compares to the epic fail that has been the Walker campaign. Guy was perfectly positioned to win the nomination and turns out he's a bigger buffoon than Palin.

[Brett85]

I don't necessarily disagree except that I would prefer to put our troops along our northern and southern borders instead of building a wall. I would much rather use our troops to secure our borders than to use them to secure the border between North Korea and South Korea.

[jkob]

what is amazing is that Walker is a border state governor. the people of Wisconsin must go back and forth to Canada as much as those from Maine, NH, upstate NY, downstate MI, and Washington state.

Wisconsin is not a border state unless you count Minnesota as Canada\

Walker is a dunce tho, all these candidates are

Trump is making them go off the deep end

[William R]

Walker is melting down!!

[AngryCanadian]

Berlin style wall with Canada? yeah i don't see that happening anytime soon. Walker is an idiot if he wants Canadians out of America thats ok then that would also mean less tourism profits from Canadians then.

[hells_unicorn]

This is what happens when you try to out-Trump Donald Trump, and this is PRECISELY the reason why I don't want Rand trying to emulate Trump. Let's knock off this stupid wall-building crap and deal with the actual issue, namely welfare state and its magnetic draw for a greater influx of paupers.

[Kotin]

Bizarre.

[Rad]

I think the wall is to keep us from fleeing to Canada (where Bush's mini me runs supreme).

[cindy25]

the best solution to illegal immigration is just limit benefits to any means tested program to citizens. even legal immigrants should not be getting medicaid or food stamps. that would end the objections of 90% of people. no one cares if a Mexican picks fruit-they care that they are getting subsidized with food stamps and medicaid. and there are plenty of hard working people getting subsidized. their families are too big, their skills too limited.

[cindy25]

I think the wall is to keep us from fleeing to Canada (where Bush's mini me runs supreme).

Canada will vote on Oct 19 if they want independence from the USA. the have a fascist, a socialist and a liberal. with the socialist favored
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/08...n_8059864.html

[Suzanimal]

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.

“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.

...

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2...ion-terrorists

[acptulsa]

Canada will vote on Oct 19 if they want independence from the USA. the have a fascist, a socialist and a liberal. with the socialist favored
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/08...n_8059864.html

Um, independence from Great Britain, dear. There's a reason the queen is on their money.

[TheTexan]

Another important issue that not enough people look at, is building a wall between us and Cuba

[David Sadler]

Why do the rich and powerful live in gated communities?

[wizardwatson]

You either have a country, or you don't.

[wizardwatson]

Why do the rich and powerful live in gated communities?

Because they don't value pizza delivery as much as poor people?

[69360]

I think we do need a wall. Here in Maine we have a serious problem with smuggling in timmys, molson, labatt's, hockey pucks and moose. We need to keep those Canadians out.

[specsaregood]

Trump is making them go off the deep end

and he is probably pulling a Carter ala 1970 gubernatorial race where Carter ran as a racist, hating on MLK and praising segregationists. then when he won the election switched sides and preached the exact opposite. works every time...

[ProBlue33]

Crazy, I drove to work along the Canada/US border, no fence no nothing anybody can just walk over, but there are camera's and the border patrol is there just sitting in those white jeeps bored out of their minds. Never saw anything strange in a whole year of driving. And there is virtually no protection on the Canada side for Americans going into Canada. No border patrol no police for miles, I think they share the camera feed.

Anybody could walk through a field into Canada, get picked up and be gone, the RCMP wouldn't find them. On the American side different story there is enough of a patrolling presence to deter.

[Zippyjuan]

I guess he thinks we have to stop all those Asians from coming. Can't build a wall in the middle of the ocean.

http://www.denverpost.com/nationworl...higher-numbers

Asian immigrants overtake Mexicans as largest groups coming into the U.S.

DALLAS — Siddharth Jaganath wanted to return to India after earning his master's degree at Southern Methodist University. Instead, he built a new life in the U.S. over a decade, becoming a manager at a communications technology company.

"You start growing your roots and eventually end up staying here," the 37-year-old said.

His path is an increasingly common one: Immigrants from China and India, many with student or work visas, have overtaken Mexicans as the largest groups coming into the U.S., according to U.S Census Bureau research released in May. The shift has been building for more than a decade, and experts say it's bringing more highly skilled immigrants here.

Mexicans still dominate the overall composition of immigrants in the U.S., accounting for more than a quarter of the foreign-born people. But of the 1.2 million newly arrived immigrants here legally and illegally counted in the 2013 census, China led with 147,000, followed by India with 129,000 and Mexico with 125,000. It's a sharp contrast to the 2000 census, which counted 402,000 from Mexico and no more than 84,000 each from India and China. The national trend is evident even in Texas, where the number of Mexican immigrants coming to the border state each year has dropped by more than half since 2005, according to the Office of the State Demographer.

Mexicans quit coming a few years ago.

[Ronin Truth]

What degree of issue is Canadian illegal immigration?

[Occam's Banana]

Scott Walker one-ups Trump with call for border wall with our neighbor to the north.

Too late. Ted Cruz already got in ...

Another important issue that not enough people look at, is building a wall between us and Cuba

Too late. Marco Rubio's parents already got in ...

[VIDEODROME]

Could a wall keep their frigid winter weather from coming here?

[Henry Rogue]

what is amazing is that Walker is a border state governor. the people of Wisconsin must go back and forth to Canada as much as those from Maine, NH, upstate NY, downstate MI, and Washington state.

People have to travel through the U.P. or Minnesota or across Lake Superior, no direct land border. But yes there is an occasional Canadian.

Did Walker say this in jest?
Never mind, I just read Suz's post, Walker is a dimwit.

[Henry Rogue]

Why do the rich and powerful live in gated communities?

Because they know cops can't protect them or their property and an added bonus, it makes SWATting more difficult.