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USA: The Republican presidential candidate proposes building a border wall with Canada

USA: The Republican presidential candidate proposes building a border wall with Canada

By Omayma othmani

Published: November 9, 2023

Businessman and presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy suddenly raised the issue on Wednesday night in Miami, where bombing drug labs in Mexico became an increasingly popular idea in his party, alongside building a wall along the southern border of the United States.

But Ramaswamy said these policies are not enough. He expressed regret that the northern border is not discussed as much as it should be.

Ramaswamy said, at the end of his remarks on border security, "I am the only candidate at this stage, to my knowledge, who has already visited the northern border."

Ramaswamy began raising the idea as part of his platform and tweeted about it last month. The candidate also said that the United States must also use its army to close any tunnels established by human trafficking gangs.

Republicans are skeptical about the northern border:

In context, U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported that two pounds of fentanyl were seized in the northern border area this year. That represents about 0.0074 percent of the total 27,000 pounds seized, according to agency figures.

Republican lawmakers have frequently complained about the northern border in the context of unauthorized immigration, but the numbers remain a small part of the total in the United States.

Also, only 2.7 percent of people have stopped trying to enter the United States from Canada since the beginning of fiscal year 2022, and they were already trying to enter between the crossings, according to U.S. data available earlier this year.

Ramaswamy is not the first candidate seeking the Republican presidential nomination to talk about the wall with Canada. Just for casually thinking about the possibility of building a wall with Canada, Scott Walker drew relentless ridicule in the 2016 campaign, being mocked by other Republicans.

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