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Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz referred to ladders as part of his criticism of former President Donald Trump’s advocacy of a border wall to fight illegal immigration.
Walz was interviewed on CNN a week before Kamala Harris chose him as her vice presidential running mate.
Walz said Trump “talks about this wall. I always say, let me know how high it is. If it’s 25 feet, then I’ll invest in the 30-foot ladder factory. That’s not how you stop this. You stop this using electronics. You stop it using more border control agents and you stop it by having a legal system that allows for that tradition of allowing folks to come here, just like my relatives did.”
The Wisconsin Republican Party claimed Aug. 6 that Walz suggested in the interview that he wanted to provide ladders to migrants trying to illegally enter the U.S.
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