A wall with Canada? The idea came up during a Republican presidential debate, from a candidate insisting his party’s border policies aren’t tough enough.
Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy brought it up unprompted on Wednesday night in Miami.
Bombing drug labs in Mexico has become an increasingly popular idea in his party, along with building a wall along the southern U.S. border.
But Ramaswamy said these policies don’t go far enough. He lamented that the northern border does not get discussed as often as it should.
“I’m the only candidate on this stage, as far as I’m aware, who has actually visited the northern border,” Ramaswamy said, on the tail end of remarks about border security.
As someone living on the mean streets of a border town with Canada, we used to walk over without even a passport and post-9/11 with passports the line has gotten hours long either way and it basically closed the border to me except for weekend trips.
My life would be better with a fully open border vs the current situation, can’t imagine something more useless than a giant wall.
God dammit Canada, stop playing 4D chess to make us pay for your wall.
I want to know what genius Canadian politician promised their constituency a wall on the southern border and they’ll make the U.S. pay for it. A political masterstroke.
Next we need walls to protect us from the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, in case of Kaiju attacks!
No one is smuggling anything across that border except the Trailer Park Boys
It seems like Vivek’s strategy is to just be loud in these debates. Personality wise (ignoring policy) he seemed the worst of all those in the primary.
Link to video: ;https://youtu.be/vHdS8Bcz1TY?si=RHvjLgb7H_6ktTYF Skip to 1:36:40-1:38:23
