In the tourist town Niagara Falls, Canada, a traffic jam shortly before midnight on a Sunday is unprecedented. A line of cars, all registered in the Canadian state of Ontario and piled high with baggage, stretches back from the entrance Rainbow Bridge.
“We’re hoping to beat the traffic,” said Ed from Paris, Ontario.
“We’re heading for Florida. It’s a little warmer than it is here.”
Normally, Canada’s snowbirds would start heading south to Florida earlier in the autumn. But since March 2020, the border has been open only for essential travel.
Simultaneously with Joe Biden’s administration tearing up the travel ban on Europeans, America’s land frontiers with Canada and Mexico are also reopening for non-essential travel.
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