Businesses in the isolated U.S. border town of Point Roberts just south of Vancouver are calling on President Joe Biden to help them hire Canadians to fill a labour shortage.
Brian Calder, the president of the Point Roberts Chamber of Commerce, wrote an open letter urging the president and lawmakers to make an exception to U.S. work permit policies for Point Roberts.
Point Roberts is part of Washington state but juts out from the Canadian mainland south of Vancouver and is only accessible by land via the Canadian border.
Calder says while they’ve looked for American citizens from other parts of Washington state to come work, high rental costs and four daily border crossings are barriers.
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