Millions of Canadians have stopped crossing the border into the U.S., and new federal figures confirm the damage. Official data from the National Travel and Tourism Office shows a 21 percent drop in Canadian arrivals compared with 2024—roughly 4.2 million fewer visitors. Canadians who enjoyed holidays in the U.S. or once made regular cross-border runs to Maine, Michigan, and New York for cheaper goods are now staying home. Susan Morell, a retired government communications director, canceled a planned Disney World trip with her grandchildren. “We don’t feel welcome to cross that border,” she said. Todd Johnson cited the deaths of Americans Renée Good and Alex Pretti during ICE encounters as a deterrent. “The stuff that happened in Minnesota—we’re horrified by that,” he said. “We don’t want to get caught up in anything.” Business travel is drying up, too. Gilles Heroux, a longtime attendee of the InfoComm audiovisual industry convention, is skipping this year’s Las Vegas edition. “With Trump, every week there is an insult,” he said. Overall international arrivals to the U.S. fell 5.5 percent in 2025, according to NTTO figures, despite a 6 percent uptick in Mexican visitors.
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