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.
My wife and I were curious about the pricing. So for context, after about 25 years the ISS cost 150bn, estimates say the border wall with Mexico would hit that price in about 5 years. Our border with Mexico is fucking nothing compared to Canada. They’ve got a river and desert to deal with. Up here we’ve got 5 giant lakes, two mountain groups (one of which isn’t terrible to cross, but is shit to build on), and once you’re past the Canadian Shield (also terrible to build on) you’ve got just so absolutely much wilderness. And you’ve gotta build a wall in Detroit