--- title: Scott Walker: Building a Canada Border Wall is 'Legitimate' description: Republican presidential candidate Scott Walker said he would look at a wall with Canada canonical: https://time.com/4016282/scott-walker-immigration-canada/ author: Jack Linshi article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-08-30T16:07:38.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T10:33:18.528Z article:section: Politics og:title: Walker: Building a U.S.-Canada Border Wall is 'Legitimate' og:description: Presidential candidate Scott Walker suggested a wall between the US and Canada og:url: https://time.com/4016282/scott-walker-immigration-canada/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt75e50f2c0050e91a/698861972dce0114239e54fb/scott-walker1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Scott Walker og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Walker: Building a U.S.-Canada Border Wall is 'Legitimate' twitter:description: Presidential candidate Scott Walker suggested a wall between the US and Canada twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt75e50f2c0050e91a/698861972dce0114239e54fb/scott-walker1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Scott Walker: Building a U.S.-Canada Border Wall is a 'Legitimate Issue' ## Video: Real TIME: Scott Walker At CPAC 2015 [Watch (HLS stream): Real TIME: Scott Walker At CPAC 2015](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/Em2MtXHb.m3u8) (0:59)  _Published 2015-02-28. Gov. Scott Walker shared his views on the economy, minimum wage, and and the partisan showdown in Congress over Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's impending visit to the U.S. during his speech at CPAC._  by [Jack Linshi](https://time.com/author/jack-linshi/)  ## Jack Linshi Aug 30, 2015 4:07 PM UTC  Republican presidential candidate, Wis. Gov. Scott Walker, gives a foreign policy speech on the campus of The Citadel on Aug. 28, 2015, in Charleston, S.C. Republican presidential candidate, Wis. Gov. Scott Walker, gives a foreign policy speech on the campus of The Citadel on Aug. 28, 2015, in Charleston, S.C.Mic Smith—AP  by [Jack Linshi](https://time.com/author/jack-linshi/)  ## Jack Linshi Aug 30, 2015 4:07 PM UTC Republican presidential candidate Scott Walker said on Sunday that building a wall on the U.S.-Canada border is “a legitimate issue for us to look at,” proposing a focus on the northern border as the members of the GOP primary field tighten their stances on illegal immigration. The Wisconsin governor, who supports boosting security along the southern border, told [NBC’s “Meet the Press”](http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/scott-walker-politicians-trying-distract-birthright-citizenship-n418416) that focusing on border security would take care of “almost every one of the other issues \[of immigration\] out there,” including [birthright citizenship.](http://time.com/4008888/jeb-bush-anchor-baby-asians/) “Whether it’s talking about the 14th Amendment or anything else, until we secure the border and enforce the laws, we shouldn’t be talking about any other issue out there,” he said. Walker added that some voters supporting a norther border wall worry that terrorists could cross from Canada to the U.S. in the wake of [a lone wolf attack on the Ottawa Parliament in October.](http://time.com/3533581/canada-ottawa-shooting-lone-wolf-terrorism/) “\[Voters\] raised some very legitimate concerns, including some law enforcement folks that brought that up to me at one of our town hall meetings about a week and a half ago. So that is a legitimate issue for us to look at.” \[[NBC](http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/scott-walker-politicians-trying-distract-birthright-citizenship-n418416)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4016282/scott-walker-immigration-canada/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4016282/scott-walker-immigration-canada/"},"headline":"Scott Walker: Building a U.S.-Canada Border Wall is a 'Legitimate Issue'","datePublished":"2015-08-30T16:07:38.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T10:33:18.528Z","description":"Walker said some fear terrorists coming in through Canada","url":"https://time.com/4016282/scott-walker-immigration-canada/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election topic","Immigration","Scott Walker"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt75e50f2c0050e91a/698861972dce0114239e54fb/scott-walker1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jack Linshi","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/jack-linshi/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt75e50f2c0050e91a/698861972dce0114239e54fb/scott-walker1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Scott Walker","caption":"Scott Walker","creditText":"Mic Smith—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4016282/scott-walker-immigration-canada/","name":"Scott Walker: Building a U.S.-Canada Border Wall is a 'Legitimate Issue'"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Real TIME: Scott Walker At CPAC 2015","description":"Gov. 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