WORLD_ DEADLY China CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK_ US has blocked 'hundreds' at land borders with Canada and Mexico over coronavirus concerns

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US has blocked 'hundreds' at land borders with Canada and Mexico over coronavirus concerns


by Anna Giaritelli | March 05, 2020 05:57 PM


U.S. border officials have blocked hundreds of foreigners from entering the country at land ports of entry along the Canadian and Mexico borders, a senior homeland security official said Thursday.

"We've turned people away on both borders, hundreds of them. In total, during the course of the last month ... we're under 1,000, but you're in the hundreds, to give you a ballpark sense," Ken Cuccinelli, who is performing the duties of deputy secretary of homeland security, told reporters on Capitol Hill Thursday.

On the U.S.-Canada border, approximately 300 non-U.S. citizens have been turned away based on White House-implemented travel restrictions that forbid people who have traveled to China or Iran within 14 days from entry. Of the 300 people barred entry at vehicular and pedestrian crossing points on the northern border, 113 were Canadians, and 90 were Chinese, Cuccinelli said.

"Some people may find it ironic, but the largest excluded group are Canadians, and it is Canadians who have traveled to China in the previous two weeks," he said. "The next largest group were Chinese nationals, and then it drops substantially from there."

Customs and Border Protection, whose officers work at those crossing checkpoints, determined the three crossings where Chinese citizens present for entry most often and deployed Health and Human Services Department employees, similar to having government health officials stationed at airports where flights from high-risk countries are arriving. Those ports of entry are in Blaine, Washington; Buffalo, New York; and San Ysidro, California, which is on the southern border.

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