Posted on 01/22/2022 5:51:55 AM PST by Enlightened1
The U.S. will close its borders to unvaccinated and partially vaccinated Canadian and Mexican truck drivers on Saturday, the Department of Homeland Security said on Thursday.
“These updated travel requirements reflect the Biden-Harris Administration’s commitment to protecting public health while safely facilitating the cross-border trade and travel that is critical to our economy,” Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in a statement.
The restrictions, which apply to all foreign essential workers, had been expected since U.S. officials announced them in October. They follow a similar rule that took effect at the Canadian border last Saturday.
The border COVID-19 vaccine mandates are coming into force despite pushback from the truck industry. The impact will be felt most acutely for the U.S.-Canada freight market, where around 160,000 truckers regularly cross the border — 75% of whom are Canadian.
Already capacity has tightened significantly, with huge price increases in the spot market. It adds to existing pressures, including COVID-19 itself, which left many fleets operating below full strength.
“The supply chain is already fragile — so it puts all of us in a precarious situation,” Dan Einwechter, president of Canadian trucking and logistics firm Challenger Motor Freight, told FreightWaves.
The Canadian Trucking Alliance and American Trucking Alliance have projected that 10%-15% of drivers may leave cross-border trucking as a result of the mandates, and exacerbate existing supply chain issues. On Monday, several dozen Canadian truckers protested near the U.S. border in Emerson, Manitoba.
So if a Mexican trucker gets stopped with a couple hundred illegals in his trailer, the driver gets sent back to Mexico, but his passengers get flown to a city in the northeast? Is that it? It’s really getting hard to make sense of how the Democrats are running our country.
Pure politics. Has nothing to do with keeping the folks “safe”. A big fraud, like everything else the decrepit old fool does.
Petey is queer. he has no other qualification for anything
5 bucks for a salad cucumber...
The New World Order sucks
Woo hoo but every illegal border crosser adding NOTHING BUT CRAP to our country- come on in!!!! 😡😡😡
This is all for shutting down the US economy and make us more vulnerable. They don't give shit about our health.
That’s how they get the virus under control. Let anyone who can wade across the river in, don’t test anyone for Covid, don’t vaccinate anyone, fly them all over the country in the dead of night and then raise hell with the citizens for not being vaccinated. Then, close the border to truck traffic and cause food to become scarce and, while they’re at it, shut down another US oil pipeline and then beg Russia and OPEC to sell us more oil. Makes perfect sense.
Prepare for food prices to sky rocket.
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You won’t have to worry about high prices .... because the shelves will be EMPTY .... nothing to buy.
We don't have a supply chain problem. We dissolved it, you know like with strong acid.
I’m cracking up here.
It was not that long ago everyone was against Mexican truckers even being allowed on our roads...their trucks are dangerous, not as well trained, taking American jobs
Now, not having Mexican truckers on our roads is hurting our economy.
And why would the FBI go and arrest someone interfering with the FBI doing a job the FBI doesn’t want to do when it has white racist terrorists to go searching for?
Meanwhile, at our southern border thousands and thousands of illegals are entering unchecked and unexamined.
So someone please tell me how cracking down on truckers will stop the spread of disease, any disease.
You cracked up a long time ago. Looking down at others from your righteous pedestal all the time is nauseating.
Why do you post here?
F-you Dementia Joe
Poor wet nurse Pete.
Maybe it pays well 🙃
Note: Closing the border to truckers who aren’t carrying a vaccination document
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