Tester Pushes Biden Administration to Treat Northern Border Crossings Equally, Open Border to all Fully Vaccinated Travelers

Following an announcement that the Biden Administration will allow fully vaccinated travelers to enter the U.S. by air next month while continuing to restrict “nonessential travel” across the land border indefinitely, U.S. Senator Jon Tester is questioning the Administration’s medical justifications for the uncoordinated reopening and urging it to fully open the northern border to all vaccinated travelers immediately.

Tester and a bipartisan group of his northern border state colleagues wrote a letter to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky asking for...