Higgins calls for expanded border travel exemptions

There’s very little traffic in either direction this past March at the Rainbow Bridge after the border was closed to non-essential traffic. (Paul Battson)

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This week's announcement by officials in Canada about the extension of a cross-border ban amid concerns about the continued spread of COVID-19 led U.S. Rep. Brian Higgins to sum up the situation in one word: "Heartbreaking." 

The Democrat, who represents Niagara Falls and Buffalo and who serves as co-chair of the Congressional Northern Border Caucus, said what is now the seventh extension of the non-essential travel ban on Americans crossing the Northern border is understandable given virus conditions in the U.S. yet difficult to accept from an economic standpoint. 

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