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Posted on 02/11/2022 7:15:16 AM PST by billorites
U.S. officials have offered to help the Trudeau government end an anti-vaccine mandate protest blockade that is sending ripple effects through the American economy and causing increasing concern in Washington.
The White House says U.S. officials had multiple conversations on Thursday with their Canadian counterparts about the blockade on the Ambassador Bridge, a major trade artery which connects Windsor, Ont. with Detroit.
The White House said Thursday the U.S. federal cabinet and senior administration staff are now seized with this issue.
"[They] have been engaged around the clock to bring this to a swift end," the White House said in response to questions from CBC News.
The administration of U.S. President Joe Biden said Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas urged his Canadian counterparts Thursday to use their own federal powers to end the blockade at the Canada-U.S. border.
Mayorkas also reportedly offered the help of his department to end the impasse. Protesters against vaccine mandates and other public health measures are blocking several land border crossings in Canada, including one of the country's busiest, the Ambassador Bridge in Windsor, Ont. The White House did not elaborate on the offer of help. Mayorkas's department handles multiple agencies, including U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Those officers are posted at border checkpoints, including the Ambassador Bridge — the busiest crossing between the two countries and a vital trade link.
Disruptions at that bridge have escalated U.S. interest in the convoy protests. Those protests were covered initially by U.S. media as a right-wing phenomenon but are now drawing wide-ranging national attention as a political and economic issue. A man is seen carrying propane toward the site of the protest at the Detroit-Windsor crossing on Thursday. (Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press)
"We know that disruptions like these hit hard-working American families the hardest," the White House said.
The disruption has paused auto production at plants on both sides of the border. One U.S. lawmaker has suggested that the United States should rely less on imports from Canada and buy more of its auto products at home.
The White House said it's aware of reports of plans for similar truck-convoy protests in the U.S. at the Super Bowl and across the country.
It said it has no reason yet to believe these events are anything but protests protected by the free speech provisions of the U.S. Constitution. It said it will send Homeland Security personnel to this Sunday's Super Bowl in addition to the contingent already there.
Petty tyrants working together.
Time for F-15s and nukes?
The Whitehouse is concerned about the wrong border.
Either something really bad is going to happen or we all win and our tyrannical governments back down.
I do not see much middle ground anymore on these events.
Let’s invade Canada! Call it an 1812 redo!
And...the Southern Border’s still open.
Perhaps the feds envision employing social workers to “ reason “ with the freedom protesters.
Just when they think they can "stop it before it spreads here", they will find themselves overwhelmed with the task.
What is the difference between U.S. truckers and Canadian truckers?
Hint: one is better armed than the other.
A most excellent point.
Trudeau and Biden? Fascists helping fascists, hoping fascism will work this time....
They are afraid the peasants might be revolting.
Hopefully eyes are being opened. North America has been taken over by tyrants.
End the tyrannical vaccine passports and mandates, Justin.
It’s that simple.
I was dreaming..after the truckers succeed with this...they need to head to the southern border and BLOCK incoming illegals!
“We know that disruptions like these hit hard-working American families the hardest,” the White House said.
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Unlike the Biden policies?
Want to end the protest then claim victory over the virus and end all mandates. Simple really. Get the government out of lives. The emergency is over let go of the power.
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