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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Richard Luscombe in Miami

Trump tariffs and strict US border rules threaten flight of Canada’s ‘snowbirds’

a person getting food from a food truck
Canadian Danny Haman, 67, serves a customer from Mammy's Cantine food truck from a parking lot in Hollywood, Florida. Photograph: Miami Herald/TNS

The annual migration of hundreds of thousands of Canadian “snowbirds” escaping freezing temperatures in their homeland and heading to warmer US states such as Florida for the duration of the winter could be about to become noticeably thinner.

Many have ditched plans to visit their southern neighbor and are looking to spend their valuable dollars elsewhere, largely put off by Donald Trump’s escalating economic war with Canada and strict new immigration rules that have created fear and confusion.

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