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The United States on Friday closed lanes at select ports of entry at the border with Mexico and will conduct more secondary checks to limit non-essential travel and the spread of coronavirus, a US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) official said.
Non-essential travel has been restricted at the border since March, but US citizens and permanent residents can still enter the United States from Mexico.
The new measures are aimed at those travelers, the CBP official said.
US President Donald Trump, who faces re-election November 3, has taken a series of sweeping steps to scale back immigration during the coronavirus pandemic, including emergency border rules that allow US authorities to rapidly deport migrants arrested at the border.
