Scott Walker does not discriminate between the north and the south for a border wall to keep people out.
A border wall along Canada is “a legitimate issue for us to look at,” Walker said Sunday on NBC’s Meet the Press.
“It starts with securing the homeland. It wasn’t just about building a wall and securing our borders. It was also about making sure our intelligence community has the ability for counterterrorism and the ability to go after the infrastructure they need to protect us,” Walker said.
The length of the U.S.-Mexican border is about 1,933 miles and the U.S.-Canadian border is 3,987 miles. To build a wall would be a tall order.
The United States has 12,479 miles of coastline as well, though Walker made no mention on how to secure the coasts.
Advocating a policy of building a wall, however, is not the same as building a wall. Along the U.S.-Mexican border, sealing it would cost about $28 billion per year, according to a Bloomberg analysis.
The Canadian border, due to its vastness, could run even higher.
After taking criticism from other candidates and politicians, Walker has walked back his comments.
AshLee Strong, a campaign spokeswoman, told the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel that Walker “wasn’t advocating for a wall along our northern border.”
