BISMARCK, N.D. (SEPT. 20, 2021) \u2013 Gov. Doug Burgum released the following statement Monday after the Biden administration announced it is extending restrictions on nonessential travel at the U.S.- Canada border for another month, until Oct. 21.\u00a0 Canada reopened its border to vaccinated U.S. citizens for nonessential travel on Aug. 9.<\/p>\n
Burgum says,\u00a0 \u201cAgain without an explanation from the White House, it\u2019s impossible to know what\u2019s driving this baffling decision to extend these unnecessary restrictions on land-based travelers from Canada \u2013 when Canada\u2019s vaccination rate is substantially higher than the United States\u2019 \u2013 while making accommodations for foreign visitors traveling by air to our country.\u00a0 We won\u2019t relent in our efforts to press the Biden administration, as we\u2019ve done repeatedly including in our July letter<\/a> with four border states and provinces, to lift these needless restrictions that continue to hurt communities and citizens on both sides of the border as well as our retail and tourism businesses that rely on Canadian travelers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BISMARCK, N.D. (SEPT. 20, 2021) \u2013 Gov. Doug Burgum released the following statement Monday after the Biden administration announced it is extending restrictions on nonessential travel at the U.S.- Canada border for another month, until Oct. 21.\u00a0 Canada reopened its border to vaccinated U.S. citizens for nonessential travel on Aug. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":123853,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=235058"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235107,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235058\/revisions\/235107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/123853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=235058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=235058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=235058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}