By Kim Mackrael
Updated on 4 hours ago
MASSENA, N. Y.—It’s late September, and Mike McCabe is getting ready to
put down the first layers of ice on the arena in this village of about
10,000.
In a typical winter, the 1,600-seat venue hosts weekend hockey
tournaments and figure-skating competitions that often draw dozens of
Canadian families. But Massena is bracing for the absence of Canadian
visitors again this year, along with other communities on the U.S. side
of the border, more than 18 months after it was first closed to
nonessential, overland visitors.
Border towns from Blaine, Wash., to Houlton, Maine, had hoped that the
U.S. would reciprocate after Canada last month began allowing fully
vaccinated Americans to enter the country. But while U.S. rules allow
Canadians to fly into the U.S. if they take a pre-travel Covid-19 test,
they prevent Canadians from driving across the border unless their trip
is deemed essential.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/healthcare/us-businesses-on-canadian-border-want-their-customers-back#&_intcmp=hp1r_25,hp1r
Hundred of thousands of illegal immigrants with the COVID virus just
walk across the Southern border, and Canadians can't cross over to shop
or watch a ball game.
Does that make sense?
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