Destroying American communities : Residents of Point Roberts, WA blast feds over border decision
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US and Canadian Flags fly in Point Roberts, Washington State.Maxvis/Getty Images/iStockphoto
On Wednesday, the U.S. extended its ban on nonessential travel at its borders just days after the Canadian government said it was going to start loosening restrictions on discretionary travel at the northern border for some Americans.
The move confounded many, given that the U.S. and Canada had previously been in lock-step on decisions regarding their shared border, which closed in March of last year to curb the spread of COVID-19.
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Inslee flies to Point Roberts to hear from the community that remains isolated by border closure
The town of Point Roberts, Washington, is surrounded by water on three sides and has been isolated during the pandemic due to the U.S.-Canada border closure. Author: Chris Daniels Updated: 5:49 PM PDT July 9, 2021
POINT ROBERTS, Wash. Washington state s governor landed in a small Cessna plane on a grassy field Friday, and then helped push the plane back. It was an odd sight, at this odd site, in a COVID-related chapter that appears to have no end in, well, sight.
Inslee became just the third governor to ever visit Point Roberts, Washington, the exclave surrounded by water on three sides, and separated by two international border crossings.
Governor visits town isolated by US-Canada border closure
July 9, 2021
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POINT ROBERTS, Wash. (AP) Washington state’s governor traveled to the exclave of Point Roberts on Friday to visit residents who have been voicing concern for months about the border closure between the U.S. and Canada that has essentially cut them off from both countries.
Point Roberts is on the tip of a peninsula south of Vancouver, British Columbia, that juts into U.S. territory. It’s part of Washington, but separated from the rest of the state.
Gov. Jay Inslee was greeted Friday by a few dozen residents at the town’s library, some of whom suggested that Inslee push the White House to allow for an exemption to the closure, or approval for Canadians to return to the point, KING-5 reported.