Trump Wants Canada as the 51st State. His 49th State Can't Be Reached by Road Without Canada.

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730,000 Americans live in a state that cannot be reached by road from the rest of America without driving 1,400 miles through Canada. The Alaska Highway — built by the US Army in eight months in 1942 — runs roughly 1,200 of its miles on Canadian soil, maintained by Canadians for 80 years. Alaska's cruise economy, worth over a billion dollars and 23,000 jobs, is legally required by an American law from 1886 to stop in a Canadian port. And in 2021, when Canada extended its pandemic cruise ban, Alaska's entire tourist season died — until Congress passed the Alaska Tourism Restoration Act and the President signed it at the White House with Alaska's senators beside him. Alaska's own congressman later wrote that Canada holds "de facto veto authority" over the state's cruise industry. In this video: the road, the ports, the American towns that can only be reached through Canada — Hyder, Haines, Skagway, Point Roberts, the Northwest Angle — the year the arrangement was tested, and why the 49th

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