FILE PHOTO: Two closed Canadian border checkpoints are seen after it was announced that the border would close to"non-essential traffic" to combat the spread of novel coronavirus disease at the U.S.-Canada border crossing at the Thousand Islands Bridge in Lansdowne, Ontario, Canada March 19, 2020. REUTERS/Alex Filipe/File Photo
Earlier, acting U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf announced the 30-day extension on Twitter that “close collaboration with our neighbors has allowed us to respond to #COVID19 in a North American approach and slow the travel-related spread of the virus.” Passenger crossings have fallen by 90% or more at many border crossings and hit tourist destinations along U.S. borders.
At San Ysidro, California, on the U.S.-Mexico border, passenger and pedestrian traffic fell from more than 2.9 million people crossing in February to 1.3 million in May.
Phew.
Lol! Canadians are still flying down to the great USA every single day. I would be too!
When the US is being banned from other countries, we've passed insanity.
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