

What a dumb move to keep COVID-19-related land travel restrictions between Mexico and the United States.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection, or CBP, made clear it won’t lift restrictions on nonessential travel at land border ports of entry despite outcries from border mayors over the economic devastation that’s causing to local businesses.
Maintaining those restrictions imposed at the height of the health pandemic in March 2020 doesn’t make any sense now. Quite frankly, it’s reckless.
Border cities are bearing the worst of this
Mayors of border cities are sounding the alarm over the economic impact in their cities that heavily rely on legal border crossers.
In San Ysidro, Calif., at least 197 businesses have permanently closed while in Texas, border cities report higher unemployment rates than the state average. Arizona border cities have been hit hard, too.https://www.usatodaynetworkservice.com/tangstatic/html/pphx/sf-q1a2z3be0d353f.min.html
“Cross-border traffic is the lifeblood of their economy,” Arizona Rep. Raúl Grijalva told USA Today in March. “And it’s the people that walk over, the people that come to do retail shopping.”
It’s worse now. Yet, CPB says nonessential travel are still not allowed until at least Aug. 21. That specifically targets Mexican tourists who legally cross the border by land to shop at nearby stores.
That only hurts border-area businesses because Mexicans or anyone else in the world who can pay for a plane ticket can still travel freely to America.
Use excess vaccines for anyone who enters

Why penalize land tourism? Health risks can still be mitigated by requiring COVID-19 vaccines, for instance, or even offering the jab to legal border crossers since America has plenty.
And no. Mexican land tourists wouldn’t be taking shots that otherwise could go to Americans because anyone who wants a shot can and does get it. We need to make it easier for them to spend the money that border-state businesses desperately need.
Source: AZ Central
Comments
more recommended stories
Merida Airport averages 8,300 daily passengers
Prior to the start of the.
More than 20 Mérida subdivisions are located in areas of high risk of flooding
Many of these subdivisions are very.
90 million pesos to be invested in the Cozumel Airport
The Manager of the Cozumel airport,.
One dead after another hunting accident in Yucatan
On Sunday, June 26th, a 67-year-old.
Democrats who could run for president in 2024
Joe Biden’s universal name ID helped.
Three systems in the Atlantic forming around the Yucatan Peninsula
Forecasters are watching a disturbance in.
Kanasín police officers prevent a man from committing suicide on a Periférico bridge
A man climbed the bridge located.
Alvaro Leyva, a negotiator between the Marxist FARC rebels and the Colombian government announced as new cabinet member
Colombia’s leftist president-elect Gustavo Petro named.
Rudy Giuliani is assaulted by a grocery store employee In Staten Island
Controversial former New York City Mayor.
Yucatan’s Ie-Tram transport system will be the only one of its kind in all of Latin America
Mexico’s Yucatán governor Mauricio Vila has.
Leave a Comment