(FILES) In this file photo Texas State Troopers talk to drivers at a check point at the Texas Travel Information Center on the Louisiana-Texas border April 7, 2020 in Orange, Texas. - Border restrictions were being tightened around the world on January 25, 2021 in the face of an unrelenting coronavirus threat, after a weekend in which anger at social distancing rules bubbled over into fiery clashes in the Netherlands. The United States was set to join France, Israel and Sweden in pulling up the drawbridge to certain arrivals, with special concern about new strains of the pathogen that originated in Britain and South Africa. (Photo by Mark Felix / AFP)