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LETTER: Border crossings need to step up their game

Due to COVID numbers south of the 49th Parallel, how and why are U.S. residents allowed north
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The border between Canada and the United States remains shut to non-essential travel between the two countries. That’s been in place since mid-March. (Black Press Media files)

Dear Editor,

[RE: All Washington plate owners can’t be Canadian residents, July 4, The News online]

I was driving behind a car the other day out here in Maple Ridge.

It had Florida licence plates and there were two young girls as the occupants.

With all these horrible increasing [cases of COVID] in the States – and Florida being one of them – how are they getting through the border?

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Border control needs to step up their game.

Should need to be able to provide proof of licence or documents that they really live here, or even have family.

I am pretty sure these people are not being truthful or even quarantining like they are required.

Tina Cudby, Maple Ridge

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