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.
I would like to see evidence that the current requirements are doing any good. It is a pain in the ass to cross the border now.